Oddbean new post about login | logout Your desire for freedom is incompatible with iOS
YOU TELL THEM! :D
100%. Starve the monopolies.
😂
My iPhone, where I shitpost from: https://i.nostr.build/xdexSkMJe3ead5vA.gif
I can not understand the large number of people that are willing to sacrifice a lot to decentralice money and social media but use a phone that they need the governments and a private companies permission to run software on. I understand that 99% people do not care about neither until it is to late. But I would assume we, the 1% paranoid crypto anarchists would care about both.
what do you want to run on iOS so bad? 😃 A government phone has its place
That is indeed how 99% of people think. It is the "I have nothing to hide"/"nobody is interested in me" equivalent. I would expect the paranoid crypto anarchists to get a severe allergic reaction to giving up that kind of power even if they do not require the freedom right now. I would not argue against having a decoy government phone to keep up the appearance of being a normal citizen. That is not my level of paranoia though...
I'm using Pixel 7 w/GrapheneOS. I'm also considering the Unplugged Phone. I wish I could find some good Pros/Cons comparisons between the 2.
One is open source. The other is proprietary. Enough said.
I use unplugged. Bought it in June. I was using an old android. -went scorched earth and switched to proton mail suite and installed linux on my laptop. 😂 There are definite trade offs with unplugged but its a good phone, solid camera. Its better than going with a dumbphone for sure. There are decent alternatives to almost all MS/Goog products with exception to maps. I was backpacking in Central America and it resorted to paper maps. Protonmail gmail are identical Same with calendar and all the cloud backups. My next trip Ill bring my old phone and just tether it so I can use goog maps. #unplugged
Freedom is incompatible with desire.
But text message blue > text message green
Correction: iMessage blue
Nor MacOS
MacOS is fine. It's not as locked down as iOS is. You can even install apps without the app store! :)
I use stock Android and not graphene, so I'll have to bend to this too--same argument 😉. But I do love me some Linux.
Installing Graphene on a Pixel is very, very easy. I think you should do it!
I'll give it a shot at next phone upgrade epoch
We have AltStore, SideStore on iOS....
We have zap.store on Android. :)
Só pra começar, você usuário de iPhone não é dono nem do seu próprio cllr kkkkk Esse hardware ai não é seu, você só tem licença de uso do hardware da Apple kkkk Se você busca liberdade e privacidade, primeiro livre-se do seu iPhone ele é uma gaiola muito confortável, mas ainda uma gaiola. nostr:nevent1qqs9t2sd6qxgf4kgx7zfu45al088snjwt8n6c9ueccsfjqrws4t33pgpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsygzxpsj7dqha57pjk5k37gkn6g4nzakewtmqmnwryyhd3jfwlpgxtspsgqqqqqqsgxu5qq
Amen!
https://image.nostr.build/af44f8fc352197f7c0e58e03dd169e90c51e3c78f9302eeff86b28bc650aaef4.jpg nostr:nevent1qqs9t2sd6qxgf4kgx7zfu45al088snjwt8n6c9ueccsfjqrws4t33pgpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtczyprqcf0xst760qet2tglytfay2e3wmvh9asdehpjztkceyh0s5r9cqcyqqqqqqgtsryf6
Androids are the vegans of smartphone users. Just can’t stop talking about how your preferences are better 😂 Apple sells products for money. Google sells YOU for money. I’m good over here 🤷🏻♂️
Android is open source, you can use something like GrapheneOS to detach from Google services.
nah.. let him be good over there
Well of course, and people like us know the possibilities. But I’m a realist, I’ve worked with the public fixing their tech for years and nobody will take a phone home and flash another operating system. We’re talking less than 10% of the population even know about alternatives like graphene. The real choices are what people buy at the store. Google which is just corporate spyware Apple which controls the experience to a high degree, but doesn’t surveil a persons every action
"doesn't surveil a persons" Are you kidding? Apple knows everything about you. They surveil you in every single device, in every single connection. They even have an ad-platform that Facebook was forced to use and share data with so that Apple can know you better to sell ads. Don't think for a second that the two companies are any different. Google is just upfront about it.
Nope. I understand the jump to say they’re the same. But the business model tells you everything you need to know. Google revenue comes from people, Apple revenue comes from products. Do more reading on differential privacy advertising, lockdown mode, advanced data protection for iCloud etc etc Apple built really great privacy tools. I know I was there.
Oh I did.. I know their differential privacy stuff... That doesn't change anything. Apple only offers privacy against everybody else. Not against themselves.
They make a whole lot more effort than any other tech company, I feel the public should give them more credit. Lots of good stuff that other companies wouldn’t touch. Remember when they went to court against the US government and still defied the court order to unlock everyone’s iPhones?
It's called privacy theater. They only apply differential privacy in 0.1% of their products. They only go to court in a few very public cases for marketing. Meaning while everything else is traced. 99.9% of their apps, services, devices call their servers in the open web without any privacy to you.
Idk man lot of assumptions there, from my point of view they go to court when it matters. Check this little switch right here, removes Apple keys entirely. They can hand over my data, but they can’t decrypt it.  https://image.nostr.build/30d2f5536955384ea99d6214a488248d3a495376d135a72b331af2f6b8382005.jpg
"they can't decrypt it"™ https://video.nostr.build/a5f2d2e0d669f03c7fb6aac0a600b55200824638de9264a960d96487550ee8f2.mp4
Yeah my man that’s how cryptography works. I have the only key. Only things that aren’t encrypted are iCloud mail, contacts, and calendar so they can be interoperable with other providers. Far FAR better than Android protections. Only one better is graphene, but I don’t see graphene ever getting more than 15% market share https://proton.me/blog/apple-icloud-privacy
They don't need to decrypt it. They control both sides, they can just track you using the app and get the information they need before encrypting. Similar to how WhatsApp/Telegram can get information from you even though they are "end to end" encrypted. They can just monitor what you type (which they do). If the app is not opensource so that you can check it and if you can't change the server that is storing this info, they can track anything they want and you will never know.
What app? I’m not sure this makes any sense. If my device is encrypted at rest, and my data is encrypted in iCloud, it’s no different than collecting metadata from any source. I’ve yet to see anyone demonstrate this with iOS. If they could it would be international news like when pegasus spyware came around. Plenty of audits for the lockdown mode and iCloud advanced protections that show it can stand up to state actors. Don’t get me wrong, I love the work put into Graphene as much as anybody. Graphene is best yes, we all know. But out of stock Android, or stock iOS, Apple’s built far superior protections.
There is no stock iOS. There is only the Apple-provided iOS which you can't see the code and thus you can't actually check for anything. On WhatApp: "Depending on the request WhatsApp’s response may include, if available, basic subscriber information (such as their name, service start date, last seen date, IP address, device type, and email address), and account information (such as a user’s "about" information, profile photos, group information and contacts list). In the ordinary course of providing its service, WhatsApp does not store message logs once the messages are delivered or transaction logs of such delivered messages. In order to comply with a valid legal request, such as a valid Pen Register Trap and Trace Order in the United States, WhatsApp may start collecting message logs and call logs for a particular user indicating who the communication was to or from, the time it was transmitted and from which IP address, and the type of communication (such as a text or call)." https://faq.whatsapp.com/808280033839222
Yeah “stock” iOS is the version from Apple. I was trying to convey the additional optional security features that put it above all versions of Android, except Graphene. WhatsApp is a third party app, created in china, purchased by Facebook. The real answer is don’t use it. But the danger of using WhatsApp is the same between Android and iOS. Again I’m trying to point out Graphene stands on its own here. Cybersec researchers work pretty hard to breach iOS and their work is in the open, even if the public can’t look at the iOS source code.
Here maybe this will help, not my opinions, direct from Cellebrite. iPhones are harder to breach than Android https://image.nostr.build/c3a08ecc8b2239be485f2709941b0adc20f09b36a0d56670dfe8a26acd3822cc.jpg https://image.nostr.build/b57eeeb37e1b34e53a63ff348bdfcfd1655baf625bb6f7edf99a795ad4985f51.jpg
Imagine thinking that pixels aren't hardware backdoored. The cope is real sometimes in the PrivSec community.
Imagine thinking iPhones are not.
what are your thoughts on graphene?
Really good. Most people here should be on it. Normies might have a harder time.
10/10 highly recommend it
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_c8UrgGG3NA
Rob Braxman's content is highly inaccurate and mixes talking about real things with large amounts of his fabrications and promotion for his insecure products/services. Strongly recommend not listening to him. He's taking advantage of people who want privacy and scamming them.
Brutal honesty. Been telling iOS users I know for years they are slaves and are giving blind trust to Apple. Most also will be the first to take a CBDC in countries that get one. Android, and specifically, a Pixel running Graphene OS is the best way to go for anyone who values their freedom.
Or no phone at all. I didnt have a phone before i decided to flee lifelong welfare dependency due to severe disabilities and heavy beurocracy in germany by taking 500€ and flying to paraguay without speaking a word of spanish and without a plan other than to #LifeFreeOrDie - best choice ever, as much as i may be struggling to pay rent and medicine espacially this month but still, i do at least have my paraguayan ID and am more or less in the process of getting my taxnumber which will open me some more doors. When traveling (or generally in such a place as this where theres sometimes 12 hour long power outages... Rare, but still) a phone is pretty useful though.
I think a smartphone built by Google could easily evolve into the same problem, you better “verify” before buying and using it!
atleast you can remove the OS on a phone built by google and put something like GrapheneOS on it 😃
Been saying this for years nostr:nevent1qqs9t2sd6qxgf4kgx7zfu45al088snjwt8n6c9ueccsfjqrws4t33pgpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtczyprqcf0xst760qet2tglytfay2e3wmvh9asdehpjztkceyh0s5r9cqcyqqqqqqgtsryf6
I’ll be in the comments, @NVK 😂 🍿🍿🍿
Do you guys know about Urbit?
Is android any better?
Yeah, so much better that Nostr has it's own app store: zap.store Android is open source. You can just install Graphene OS if you don't trust your phone manufacturer's version of it.
I agree, GrapheneOS
The best thing anyone can do with an Apple computer is to install Linux.
Freedom follows a unique curve for each individual; when we make it an absolute, it turns into its own kind of prison.
and society
But can be implemented even there! :-)
Never liked Apple
"Apple Inc. does not allow #iPhone purchasers to use the device as they wish, but as #Apple Inc. intends. Dear and fundamental as our cellphone has become to each of use, almost like an extension of our personhood, we don't so much own our phone as lease it under inflexible company made restrictions. Avis is not going to let somebody rebuild a core engine during the term of the rental, right? Well, Apple doesn't want its customers so much as looking under the hood, let alone tinkering with anything." Laurent Richard, #Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of #Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy #righttorepair #openspource #freedomtech #freesoftware #openhardware
Ideally zap.store or Obtainium. But you can also use FDroid if you want. Or install the Play store in the sandbox.
