Another downside is that Google is no longer releasing the source code for monthly security updates, only for quarterly ones. This, in conjunction with other delays in OS source code, means most custom ROMs can’t ship monthly updates anymore. Add this to the pile of other things that make it harder to mod your Android phone in 2025.

Great, Google is making AOSP-based, Google-free ROMs less secure. To accomodate corporate partners that are unable to do monthly bug fixes.

Nice. I hope it makes Signal suitable for public official required to archive communications.

Currently signal users probably have no backup, or use a Signal fork that support archiving in a less secure way.

Privacy Badger go beyond blocking cross-site cookies:

Privacy Badger comes with other advantages like cookie blocking, click-to-activate placeholders for potentially useful tracker widgets (video players, comments widgets, etc.), and outgoing link click tracking removal on Facebook and Google.

Privacy Badger can detect canvas-based fingerprinting, and will block third party domains that use it. Detection of other forms of fingerprinting and protections against first-party fingerprinting are ongoing projects. Of course, once a domain is blocked by Privacy Badger, it will no longer be able to fingerprint you.

https://privacybadger.org/#How-is-Privacy-Badger-different-from-Disconnect,-Adblock-Plus,-Ghostery,-and-other-blocking-extensions

He should at least have “DO NOT DEVELOP MY APP” tatooed on his forehead.

Is there a TL;DR which are more trustworthy or privacy friendly?

I had a quick look, it’s a pretty long writeup of different ways in which all those apps are bad.

Some simple actionnable recommandations would be nice.

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Alan Tudyk would probably have been a fine detective Spooner.

Will Smith is a fine detective Spooner.

It’s the casting’s director choice, it’s normal for actors who were not picked to be sore.

Could there be collaborative moderation where node admins volontarily block other nodes or onion services that host CSAM?

I wonder if that’s technically possible for a hidden service directory or rendez-vous point to do that. It wouldn’t completely kill those services, but may at least make less Tor resources available to them.

The trickiest question may not be technical but organisational. The Tor project probably doesn’t want to be in a position to validate/decide block requests. Different entities all over the world would ask for blocks, for many different kind of contents.

F-Droid store/repo is safer than Google Play Store. Google’s own store has many shady apps, including spyware and occasionnal malware.

I don’t get the argument that Play Store is safer than others.

Everyone, please vote and voice your support for CBAMs, ie Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanisms.

This is the polluters pay principle applied to imports, in the form of carbon tariff. It can be very efficient is enough countries put it in place and hold the line.

Great reporting. Naming and shaming can work.

Phoronix is further fueling this, sneaking bcachefs references in kernel related articles even though there’s nothing new to report on the matter.

He might as well have a bot watching commits and posting an article every hours that reads “New commits pushed to kernel, but nothing still for bcachefs”

This is a C++20 feature so most software probably aren’t using this yet.

It’s good to catch this relatively early. Crossing fingers so that compilers can fix it without breaking compatibility.

These technical workarounds may work for a little while, and are useful to some extent.

But they’re not long term solutions for a government that regularly increase its surveillance powers at the expanse of privacy.

China and Russia reached a level of surveillance and repression where people may get arrested for merely using Matrix/VPN/Tor, regarless of what it’s used for.

Political action is a better way to address bad politics before it reaches this point. This could include voting, activism, supporting privacy-friendly NGOs…

Waiting until the last moment and then rioting isn’t the best option.

Technology cannot solve purely political problems.

Uploading a video game character’s face rather than your own also benefits privacy.

The Tea app leak shows some keep verification pictures for too long, without meaningful security.

What about leggings.world?

Damn speculator. Someone already bought it and isn’t even using it.

I don’t doubt Monero has decent privacy. I may have been cryptic in my latest reply, sorry.

My point is, privacy isn’t the only thing that matters. IMHO a decent currency/payment system shouldn’t cause signifiant harm through pollution. Also it shouldn’t make it too easy to launder large amount of money, which undermine taxing/funding of things which keep society working (infrastructure, school, public health, research…).

Fiat has downsides, but all things considered it seems better than crypto. And it’s possible to have privacy with fiat by using cash, so it’s not as if only crypto allowed some privacy. There is also project GNU Taler that may one day provide decent privacy for online fiat payments without facilitating money laundering.

Do you know of concrete plan/solution on the horizon to solve or mitigate Monero’s problems? You might not consider those big problems, but those are absolute deal killer for many.

We don’t use USD here. Even so, USD isn’t as bad a Monero, there’s even privacy when using cash.

Except the lack of government AND the massive amount of pollution and resources waste.