Blaze (he/him)@piefed.zip to Android@lemdro.idEnglish · 2 months agoGoogle: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwedwww.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square177linkfedilinkarrow-up11
arrow-up11external-linkGoogle: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwedwww.youtube.comBlaze (he/him)@piefed.zip to Android@lemdro.idEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square177linkfedilink
minus-squareVarying9125@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agono option for secure messaging on a flip phone
minus-squareatomicbocks@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoYou would be surprised. Most modern “dumb phones” run KaiOS which has an App Store.
minus-squareVanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoModern flip phones can often tether. carry… TWO devices?! Like some kind of insane asshole!? the horror
minus-squareBlisterexe@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoI mean, yeah. Why would I carry one device that does everything and one device that does less and isn’t really more private, doesn’t make much sense.
minus-squareVanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-22 months agoBecause Android is ran by a capitalist corporation that spies on you 24/7 and seeks to restrict and control their platform. If I could make it convenient, I’d carry a flip phone and a laptop. I trust both far more than Google, and slightly more than GrapheneOS. Downvote all you like. I’m not telling any of you to do anything. You want security? Toss your phone out of a moving car and get a notebook.
minus-squareamino@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoyeah, these flip phone people sound very dumb to me. you don’t like google so you’re just gonna hand over all your data and conversations by using unencrypted SMS and phone calls instead? 🤦♀️
minus-square鳳凰院 凶真 (Hououin Kyouma)@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoReject Phones Return to Ham Radios and Morse code, with One Time Pad layered on top of it for encryption
no option for secure messaging on a flip phone
You would be surprised. Most modern “dumb phones” run KaiOS which has an App Store.
Modern flip phones can often tether.
the horror
I mean, yeah.
Why would I carry one device that does everything and one device that does less and isn’t really more private, doesn’t make much sense.
Because Android is ran by a capitalist corporation that spies on you 24/7 and seeks to restrict and control their platform.
If I could make it convenient, I’d carry a flip phone and a laptop. I trust both far more than Google, and slightly more than GrapheneOS.
Downvote all you like. I’m not telling any of you to do anything. You want security? Toss your phone out of a moving car and get a notebook.
yeah, these flip phone people sound very dumb to me. you don’t like google so you’re just gonna hand over all your data and conversations by using unencrypted SMS and phone calls instead? 🤦♀️
Reject Phones
Return to Ham Radios and Morse code, with One Time Pad layered on top of it for encryption