I usually don’t.

Unless its a food delivery, then I just try to find a white male name, to avoid racial profiling/harassment.

I dont think that really do much in terms of privacy, the merchant is gonna know who you are. And sometimes they will reject an order if the name used in the order doesn’t match the name of the card holder.

Any card/bank transaction, anything that gets sent to your address, that’s not really something you can have privacy over. Unless you use cash payments and use someone else’s address. Its very difficult to hide financial activity.

Impossible.

I tried that once and my cat just bit the leash and harness. And rolled on the floor like a kid with a temper tantrum.

But I carry my cat in a cat-backpack and traveled around the neighborhood, it was fun, not sure if my cat was enjoying it tho.

A pet peeve of mine is when I drop my phone 2 feet from the floor and the battery pops out.

I’d rather see a different mechanism where you trigger a battery removal by inserting a sim tool pin, just like how the sim cards are removed. This way, we can preserve IP ratings.

The “staring outside the window at the birds looking as if you have an existential crisis” Cat

I mean, if my cat had more braincells, her face would look like she was staring at the birds all the time (a catistential crisis)

Damn, I wish I was just a cat, being a human is so much sadness

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Why do these phones still have USB 2.0?

Also, wtf is the “AI Button” jesus christ is that at least re-programmable?

Our research shows that phone scammers often try to trick people into performing specific actions to initiate a scam, like changing default device security settings or granting elevated permissions to an app. These actions can result in spying, fraud, and other abuse by giving an attacker deeper access to your device and data. To combat phone scammers, we’re working to block specific actions and warn you of these sophisticated attempts. This happens completely on device and is applied only with conversations with non-contacts.

Android’s new in-call protections1 provide an additional layer of defense, preventing you from taking risky security actions during a call like:

• Disabling Google Play Protect, Android’s built-in security protection, that is on by default and continuously scans for malicious app behavior, no matter the download source.
• Sideloading an app for the first time from a web browser, messaging app or other source – which may not have been vetted for security and privacy by Google.
• Granting accessibility permissions, which can give a newly downloaded malicious app access to gain control over the user’s device and steal sensitive/private data, like banking information.

Bruh, if you are falling for simple stuff like a stanger telling you to chance settings over a phone call, you’re cooked.

No “protection” can save you.

That’s good, until you have family members that need to contact you for something.

And worse case scenario, you won’t be there for a loved one and make important medical decisions as their next-of-kin.

That’s the whole point of a phone, to act as a communications device.

I think the only solutions to this is bringing back the pagers. With the Standard Operating Procedure be having airplane mode on all the time, with a receive-only device that will alert you if someone want to contact you.

Google is not the only thing you have to worry about. Your phone carrier can also have erroneous location data.

I read this more of a cops being shitty story.

If you don’t have location turned off and all cell radios off all the time, you are also at risk.

Radical Libertarian Capitalism

Everyone is equal, as long as you have the money.

No money? DIE, MOTHERFUCKER!

Misinformation.

FRP is triggered by factory reset through any method that’s not from the settings menu (eg: Recovery Menu).

It doesn’t require “spyware” to work.

Google’s spyware issue is a whole separate topic from FRP.

If they wanted to, the developers of Graphene OS could design a FRP system that has nothing to do with Google at all.

I actually like the idea of anti-theft FRP, but only if its a local-based instead of cloud based.

You know, like a BIOS/UEFI lock on a computer, but apply it to all the components instead of motherboard only, and get rid of the “remove battery to reset password” bypass, and its a functional anti-theft system.

I imagine its probably much easier to acomplish this on a intergrated device with CPU, Storage, RAM, all on one chip (SoC) like on a phone than with computers.

Unfortunately, corporations always just love to interject and add their “cloud” nonsense to it.

Doesn’t do much.

Only your carrier would honor it, maybe even all carriers in your country, but they’ll ship it off to some other country and the phone would still work (might be missing a few bands, but still fuctional).

The only way for it to actually deter theft is for the entire device to essentially become a brick unless unlocked.

The idea itself is a good thing. The only bad thing about FRP is that it’s online-based instead of a local-lock.

Excerpts from your third link https://www.wired.com/story/protonmail-amends-policy-after-giving-up-activists-data/

As usual, the devil is in the details—ProtonMail’s original policy simply said that the service does not keep IP logs “by default.” However, as a Swiss company, ProtonMail was obliged to comply with a Swiss court’s demand that it begin logging IP address and browser fingerprint information for a particular ProtonMail account.

According to multiple statements ProtonMail issued on Monday, it was unable to appeal the Swiss demand for IP logging on that account. The service could not appeal both because a Swiss law had actually been broken and because “legal tools for serious crimes” were used—tools that ProtonMail believes were not appropriate to the case at hand, but which it was legally require to comply with.

ProtonMail also operates a VPN service called ProtonVPN, and it points out that Swiss law prohibits the country’s courts from compelling a VPN service to log IP addresses. In theory, if Youth for Climate had used ProtonVPN to access ProtonMail, the Swiss court could not have compelled the service to expose its “real” IP address.

Proton did not voluntarily log IPs, they were under a lawful court order and were out of appeal options.

Like I said, no one running a service will go to jail for you. None.

Not ProtonVPN, not Mullvad, not IVPN, not Lemmy Instances.

If a legal court order is received, they will conply after they run out of appeals

Imagine you run one of these services, and you received a lawful order in your jurisdiction.

You can choose to turn over data or go to jail for a long time.

Would you go to jail to protect user privacy?

That’s why its not only a company’s privacy practices you need to worry about, but also the jurisdiction. Choose a service that’s is in a privacy friendly jurisdiction.

Also, this is about Protonmail, which is under different laws than ProtonVPN.

I wish I was high on potenuse catnip

That’s because no one running a service will go to jail for you. None.

Not ProtonVPN, not Mullvad, not IVPN, not Lemmy Instances.

Imagine you run one of these, and you received a lawful order in your jurisdiction.

Turn over data or go to jail for a long time.

Would you go to jail to protect user privacy?

The only thing Proton does better is because they are under Swiss Jurisdiction, which has stricter control over when a court order can be issued. But if a court order goes to Proton, they can’t ignore it.

Also: Protonmail =/= ProtonVPN, they are under different laws. In Switzerland, Mail providers have to provide IP addresses upon a subpoena, VPN providers do not. If those users had used ProtonVPN to access their Protonmail, they’d be safe.

This is a privacy community lol, I think you know why people use throwaways.

privacyguides.org have been a reputable source of information, also you aren’t suppose to just click hyperlinks without hovering over it and verifying that it is a trustwothy link anyways.

Bruh, good luck trying to watch a youtube video, or even just browse a news article.

Tor only works for a small number of sites.

🤣 Absolute shitshow lmfao. Signal is not approved for war communications, that was a security breach (not to mention, adding the journalist), and he risked jepardizing his entire mission.

But on the other hand, having such incompetent fascists is a good thing for the resistance.

My cat will just refuse to eat any human food if you attempt to feed her that. Not even fish.