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If you go with the Pixel, which is basically the iPhone of Android, you'll get a similar to iOS update experience.
You are mistaken. The pixel has the same 2 year support length of the Nexus series. iPhones are typically supported for 4 years.
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How so? You mean from user access and usability standpoint? I know I certainly wish there was a Keychain access app like on macOS available for iOS rather than only being able to access passwords via Safari settings.
Probably referring to the key distribution process, where to enable iCloud Keychain you have to approve from another device. It's a sound design in theory - the keys are only stored locally, so even Apple can't access them - but I've personally experienced issues several times where the approval notification wouldn't show up on my other devices, or the UI was in an inconsistent state, etc.
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Signal won't run without access to your contacts (at least on iOS). Whether that's considered "unreasonable" is being actively argued on Twitter at the moment...
I dont often join in, but the fact this doesn't work without contacts seems alarming. Any guess as to why?
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You picked a bad example, as Uber car ordering does work with location services disabled. Any better examples come to mind of apps that refuse to run unless hey have an unreasonable feature granted?
Perhaps this has changed recently, but the last time I tried to use Uber without "allow location access even when not using the app," I was unable to call a ride. Instead, I was given instructions on how to enable that setting.
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You picked a bad example, as Uber car ordering does work with location services disabled. Any better examples come to mind of apps that refuse to run unless hey have an unreasonable feature granted?
On Android, GM's Maven car-sharing app (similar to ZipCar) does not run unless all permissions are granted, which include the ability to manage phone calls. The Chinese WeChat messenger also refuses to run unless location access is granted, even though messaging apps do not depend on location to work. This type of behavior makes fine-grained permissions systems not very useful. It should be prohibited by the Apple Ap…
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Mmm? Secure enclave is present on most Android devices and is mandatory since Android 6.0. (It's just called something else.) Historically Android has been lagging behind a bit from iOS devices when it comes to security, but Pixels and their software have a very similar security model and design (with some exceptions - less granularity with file-based encryption and some other mostly minor details). Non Google device…
My OnePlus 3T uses dm-verity as well, sadly. Displaying an "unlocked" badge during boot is acceptable. Actually pausing boot for 10 seconds every time is not by a long shot.
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What purpose do you want to access raw NAND? If you are okay with just a basic low speed connection to read the NAND, there is a fairly standardized async protocol which you could achieve with a dozen GPIO pins. You could also use a FPGA or and NAND flash programmer (like of like the old EPROM programmers) However beyond this, you need to know a bit more information to interpret this raw data. This includes any data…
I just want it to show up in the OS as MTD so e.g. I could use it with JFFS2 like OpenWrt does on routers. But on a desktop PC.
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I dont often join in, but the fact this doesn't work without contacts seems alarming. Any guess as to why?
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2017/03/signal-leaks-your-phone-num...
Is there any similar document about macOS ?
Their LEO guide is just as good, but not updated in a while.