Comment on FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled

• napoleonsdumbcousin@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  But if you’re using it for privacy-from-Google purposes you probably don’t care about those.

  Correct, I am not using GrapheneOS to then give my data to Google willingly. Kinda defeats the purpose I would say. It is the right thing that this is blocked by default and you have to actively turn it on.

  also RCS Is this a country-specific topic? I don’t know a single person who still uses SMS/MMS to communicate. Everybody here uses WhatsApp or Signal.

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I am not using GrapheneOS to then give my data to Google willingly

    No one enables it to “give Google data”, they use it to get apps to work that use it as a dependency.

    I don’t know anybody who still uses SMS/MMS to communicate.

    RCS is neither.

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    • napoleonsdumbcousin@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      No one enables it to “give Google data”, they use it to get apps to work that use it as a dependency.

      Well yes of course, but you are still giving away your data, regardless of intention. And a privacy feature of GrapheneOS is that it redirects location data requests to the OS by default. Thats why you have to disable it in the settings if you want Google to have this data.

      RCS is neither.

      AFAIK it is specifically meant as a replacement for SMS and is used with regular pre-installed SMS Apps.

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      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        AFAIK it is specifically meant as a replacement for SMS

        Nope

        and is used with regular pre-installed SMS Apps.

        Only works with 3 proprietary apps, that I’m aware of. Google and Samsung Messages and iMessage.

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• Winged_Hussar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  And Tmobile / Mint Mobile regularly stop working and require reprovisioning every 36 hours.

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  • Lyubo@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Look, there always will be obstacles. Do you have any other carrier option? If yes- change it and tell them why, if not- you’re already fucked and I wouldn’t comply when it’s already that bad. Nothing’s going to get better when doing nothing. My bank wanted to store a picture of my face on their servers to continue using their service so I changed my bank. You need to not be lazy.

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    • Winged_Hussar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Nah

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