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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  not on any Android device, but some device categories like smartphones

  Hm, are there any categories? I didn’t see any, but maybe they’ve added them already. They log whatever they can. Today it’s smartphones, but tomorrow it could be other devices and other things to be logged and uploaded to Google, like screenshots. The problem is that it’s done behind your back, and many people are unaware of this creepy activity.

  By the way, screenshots are already uploaded if you did not disable the option to automatically upload all photos to the cloud. And we’re discussing North Korea here, LOL.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you checked what’s in it? Every action and touch is logged with all the details. Many people didn’t even guess that such actions could be logged. It’s like super spyware activity; it’s very creepy. “Google is tracking your every touch on any Android device” - is exactly what it does.

  I first noticed this issue around 2015, and I have been trying to disable it on every Android device since then. However, it re-enables itself from time to time. I have a few Google accounts, and it must be disabled on each one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  replied above

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mentioned “Google Account Settings.” It is buried deep within submenus, so it is harder for regular users to find. However, you can find it by navigating through your Google account settings. Look for “Manage your data & privacy” > “History settings” > “Web & App Activity.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hm, only screenshots? By the way, compared to what Google collects by default on every Android device, it’s really crazy. Have you seen the details of what is collected? It literally logs every touch, along with the description of button names and apps. You can turn this off in your Google account settings on Android, but nobody realizes what is collected or how to turn it off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI Wants Access To Encrypted iPhone And Android Data—So Does Europe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  iOS & Android should not hide admin/root access from users (device owners). The same was as desktop systems (Windows/macOS/Linux) never hide it. This will allow users to use their own encryption (LUKS,dm-crypt, AES, VeraCrypt and so on) to store application data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is for WSL2, not for WSL1. WSL2 is just a VM, not a big deal it it’s open-sourced. WSL1 is superior to WSL2 in every way. BTW, WSL2 is not a continuation of WSL1, they are being developed in parallel

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skype was shut down for good today⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They screwed it up as much as possible and abandoned the P2P protocol and are now shutting it down. The behavior is like a little kid who broke a toy, it stopped working and he throws it away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Because it is software-based access control, it is impossible to guarantee that access really has been disabled. Thanks to Apple’s design, we now live in a world where users are not supposed to detach batteries or physically turn off microphones and cameras; it’s all software-controlled. The problem is that software can be hacked and have backdoors. Also, thanks to Apple’s smart design, users can no longer upgrade the memory sticks on their Mac Minis and MacBooks. Why do I say it is all Apple’s fault? Unfortunately, other manufacturers copy these design ideas…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is killing privacy sandbox in Chrome.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Can I ask who even clicks on these Google ads?

  I click when I want to support the author. I don’t care what I click, just I click a few ads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree. However, some dishonest services allow to download, but downloaded file is DRM. It is even worse.