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- Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance 1 day ago:
Equating photo backup, something that needs to be turned on and only uploads media you create, from folders you choose, to North Korean government taking a hidden screenshot of your screen every 5 seconds, is a gigantic stretch.
Definitely don’t use Google Photos, Google can’t be trusted with your photos. But wow these are completely different things.
- Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance 1 day ago:
What I’m seeing, is that:
- it doesn’t log all your touches, but some actions in some apps
- not on any Android device, but some device categories like smartphones
- only on those with Google services (no China devices for example)
- only with a Google account logged in
- only when that account has that feature turned on
That’s already very far for every Android device, let alone every touch.
- Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance 1 day ago:
Yeah, good stuff to tell people about!
But “Google is tracking your every touch on any Android device” is very different from “Google saves a history of your Google searches, and some major actions in some Google apps”.
- Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance 3 days ago:
I absolutely agree with you. What I’m arguing against is baseless FUD without any specifics, any sources, any details, and making extraodinary claims without extraordinary evidence. I didn’t mean that the type of tracking is ridiculous, what I’m saying is ridiculous is the claim that Google is collecting the logs of EVERY touch on EVERY Android device. Does that claim even needs to be disproven?
Is that happening on Chinese Android phones without any Google services? Is that happening on AOSP phones without Google services? Is that happening on GrapheneOS, on other custom ROMs? Is that happening on my washing machine that for some reason runs Android? Is that baked into the system? From which Android version? In a particular system app? Where can I see these logs of all touches for myself?
It is patently obvious it cannot be happening on EVERY Android device. And I’d welcome evidence that it’s happening on even a SINGLE one. But I don’t see it. Because it’s made up hyperbole that’s poisoning the discussion of real tracking.
- Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance 3 days ago:
Yes, I’m sure he’s angry people are diluting the invigilation he exposed by coming up with fake ones all the time
- Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance 3 days ago:
Yes, Google’s code processes every touch, they wrote Android after all, so you are technically correct.
Is it all being sent somewhere from every Android device? Of course not, that’s ridiculous.
- Comment on Don't Look Up 4 days ago:
That’s reasonable I think, if people are messing with infrastructure, it’s good it’s being verified they are doing legitimate work. Though don’t call them on a hunch terrorists obviously…
- Comment on A 19-year old cis lesbian woman was beaten unconscious and robbed after she tried to use the women's restroom at a McDonald's in Carpentersville, Illinois 1 week ago:
I think you are confused on what cis means
- Comment on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. 2 weeks ago:
The entire thing is for running Linux software on Windows, it’s the complete opposite of Wine.
- Comment on Microsoft finally solve the Linux dual-boot issue after 9 months 2 weeks ago:
Grub did not detect your VM, it detected a bootable operating system on the drive because you passed it through to your VM
Yeah, the bootable drive that contained my VM install, that’s what I’m saying.
But i prefer using a raw disk file image
I started that way, but I had a disk with a single partition that contained a single file - the raw disk image file, and eventually decided this is silly, the filesystem on that disk is useless.
- Comment on Microsoft finally solve the Linux dual-boot issue after 9 months 2 weeks ago:
I did that, and since I got a dedicated SSD drive for it, I used it for the VM as a block device. Later after a GRUB update I discovered Windows in my GRUB boot menu. Turns out GRUB detected my VM, and now I can physically boot into my VM. Which I didn’t even know was possible.
So yeah, I accidentally dual boot Windows without meaning to, even though it’s a VM. Except when I boot into it, then it’s not, apparently.
- Comment on Got any grapes? 2 weeks ago:
I was going to post, but my card only had one number on the back, 3 digits long. :(
- Comment on Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations 2 weeks ago:
If that counts as recording then all phone calls are recorded by your microphone, in order to send the sound to the other party.
- Comment on Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations 2 weeks ago:
You should absolutely use GrapheneOS, but why would this optional offline feature sway you to it?
- Comment on Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations 2 weeks ago:
They calls are not recorded, are they? They are transcribed live.
- Comment on Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations 2 weeks ago:
They could also spy on you without providing this feature at all. I get not trusting Google, and you shouldn’t be using a Google Pixel in that case. But in the event that you are using a Google Pixel, this optional feature is only a positive. If Pixels spy on you, then they are doing it with this or without it.
- Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point. 3 weeks ago:
The ads don’t cover anything though, the video continues where it stopped before the ads.
- Comment on How I view others in social media 3 weeks ago:
I have no idea. Guess people like getting thumbs up.
- Comment on How I view others in social media 3 weeks ago:
I saw a top comment on a music video on YouTube with “Anyone watching on specifically today’s date”. Tons of engagement because of course everyone is watching today.
Dude just had a script setup to edit the comment every day, so for years it always asked about today’s date.
- Comment on Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones 5 weeks ago:
This link proves how robust the security research is and how quickly bugs like that are patched.
- Comment on Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones 5 weeks ago:
While these bugs happen, they are fixed very quickly, and wouldn’t be used by any marketing agency. Just keep your phone updated.
- Comment on Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones 5 weeks ago:
That helps with other dangers, but in this case all you need to do is not give “Pool 3D” access to the microphone, no rooting required.
- Comment on 1994 white Kevin 1 month ago:
You don’t have to trust the security checks, but they had to submit their personal information and documents to Uber, and would be easy to find if they did anything. That’s much better than an anonymous stranger, and I doubt a predator would go through all that instead of just, you know, remaining an anonymous person on the street.
- Comment on Limited edition orange juice mint condition looking for trade 1 month ago:
Yeah I can see blocking text, but you are saying the new images are possibly to avoiding blocks. Which would require some image comparison / computer vision based detection, which I would be interested to read about if it existed.
- Comment on Limited edition orange juice mint condition looking for trade 1 month ago:
Do you have any source for any automatic blocks being implemented by anyone?
- Comment on Russian sensors trying to track nuclear submarines in UK waters found in a campaign of ‘greyzone’ warfare that also targets Britain's energy and internet. Even oligarchs’ superyachts are in on it. 1 month ago:
No, where did I do that? I said it’s not unreasonable that a politician has a journalist in their contact list. For example because a journalist tried to contact them, hence adding themselves to their conversation list.
- Comment on Russian sensors trying to track nuclear submarines in UK waters found in a campaign of ‘greyzone’ warfare that also targets Britain's energy and internet. Even oligarchs’ superyachts are in on it. 1 month ago:
Oh hey it’s the ICE supporter guy
- Comment on Tools that Just Work™ …until they don’t 1 month ago:
And he’s absolutely right.
- Comment on How to harden against SSH brute-forcing? 1 month ago:
Your answer to “how to harden SSH?” is “harden SSH”?
I know your two other points gave concrete suggestions, but it’s pretty funny you suggested to “harden sshd” when that is what OP is asking how to do.
- Comment on Are most people here left-wing? 1 month ago:
Because “crypto bros” care about making money, not any ideology, except in a performative sense. If you pitched the fediverse to the original researchers inventing cryptocurrency and the early adopters, they would likely be receptive. But these are no longer associated with the current crypto crowd.