Almost 40 orgs just signed an open letter telling Google to reverse Android Developer Verification, we're one of them.
Google has not backed down and seems to have no intention of keeping Android open. Check out our newest video covering what's going on and what we can do: https://youtu.be/5MZfGq5F1NU
@techlore They now have Agent Orange and their CEOs are rulers from behind. Why anyone is expecting them to listen to the serfs being their commodity is beyond my comprehension.
Get rid of fascism, restore justice then they "voluntarily" start to please new masters and reluctantly will abide. Until that buy Chinese MT8xxx based phone where you can break into the MT cpu and implant your own OS (or better yet ditch G spybrick and start to use a phone + pi).
The Margaret Atwood vision of the USA continues to become more & more prescient.... we are seeing the Handmaidenisation of the USA.
What was once science fiction is now public policy.... and in the UK there are people f the right who no doubt see this sort of move as entirely justified pronatalsm.
@ChrisMayLA6 Technazi bros have absorbed a lot of distopian sci-fi and soc-fi. They are true fans of worlds depicted. The only thing they didn't like was the endings. So now they are metcously working to change the real ending to one they deem happy.
Not sure where #Google asked for feedback about their developer verification program, but they surely didn't talk with #FLOSS devs, civil society, privacy organisations or their #Android users
#FDroid did since September, and interacted with folks in the Fediverse, forum, email and in person
They all voiced one opinion: "developer verification must be stopped"
The anti-Big-Tech movement isn't a trend, it's a correction. Our societies spent 20 years accepting surveillance capitalism as normal. And now, we're slowly remembering we have choices.
Sure, switching browsers is a small thing. But small rebellions are how everything big begins, or so we like to believe. 🤞
If you think about those around you, have you noticed an increased awareness lately about what's behind the tech they use?
@Vivaldi Switching browser is not a small thing. For most non-mobile users it is a tough decission not to be taken lightly. And something that needs a determination. As for the awareness of the state of permeating inviglilation it is there, but it is being supressed, as something one can do nothing about. Of course old nerds possibly can, "but not me". That is my impression, an anecdata of some dozen of talks.
Was just browsing the Internet in a VM with script-blockers turned off for a bit, and half the sites were like "IT PUTS THE DATA IN THE BASKET OR IT GETS THE HOSE AGAIN!" with multiple videos, dozens of ads and and 99 pieces of third-party Javascript loading in the background. The amount of advertiser profiling and data sharing that goes on when you visit these noisy sites with a mobile device is even higher and more invasive, which might explain why I do most of my web browsing inside a VM (but with script blockers turned on).
@briankrebs The other side of browsing from VM is a clear signal "a PIO (person of interest) is browsing". Like in early days of TOR. Configuring browser to hide it is on VM is not that easy. For the concerned about having somewhere a joint profiles I'd advise to have a separate device. And if VM, browse in "private" windows always. Just my ¢2.
Security nerds have launched a Gofundme to buy back securityfocus.com, a domain that hosted the Bugtraq site and more than 120,000 links from the National Vulnerability Database that are now dead. Whoops.
"Symantec killed Bugtraq in 2020 and let the domain lapse. Now it's squatted for $175k," writes Jonathan Brossard. "The NVD has 120,000+ broken links pointing there. The security community's memory is being held hostage."
Not sure if this matters, but DomainTools says the domain was transferred to Accenture.com, Accenture Global Services Limited in Ireland.
a screenshot from xitter/x
Jonathan Brossard [ol
@endrazine
Symantec killed Bugtraq in 2020 and let the domain lapse. Now it's
squatted for $175k. The NVD has 120,000+ broken links pointing there.
The security community's memory is being held hostage. Let's buy it
back! Please donate/spread/tag/RT
@briankrebs It would be way better for "security nerds" to register securityfocus.is or whatever.eu and supply the non nerd community with s/securityfocus.com/whatever.eu/ solution.
Were times better the ACPA and pro bono lawyers would be enough.
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