Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

"Unidentified governments are surveilling smartphone users via their apps' push notifications".
https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/governments-spying-apple-google-users-through-push-notifications-us-senator-2023-12-06/

#Push services from #Google and #Apple are used in many messaging apps, letting those companies see a lot of about what the users are doing on their #mobile devices. It is clearly a rich source of #metadata with huge #privacy concerns.

Been a good day in #Brussels. Attending the #DigitalCompetitionDay event.

I believe that the Digital Markets Act (#DMA), has the potential to make a significant difference.

Explained a bit what I have experienced over the years with #Microsoft , #Apple and #Google.

Talked about the importance of not leaving holes through not designating products, such as #edge

Talked about the importance of regulating use of data. Data may be the new oil and oil is ruining the planet. We can allow use of data for services, without saying that the data can be used for profiling and marketing as well!

Got great feedback, so happy about that.

@EU_Commission @Vivaldi #Regulation

All you need to know about #oil & #climate is the Saudis opening the spigot by another 1m barrels/day last week, and Putin getting the royal treatment in Abu Dhabi today, all while Dubai is hosting #COP28
https://www.axios.com/2023/12/06/oil-production-biden

Upcoming releases of F-Droid will change how repositories are added. We are interested in feedback about this overhaul.

Please tell us (if you already have the latest F-Droid or F-Droid Basic 1.19.0-alpha installed):

* Does adding repos still work for you?
* And did adding repos became easier or harder?

If you don't have 1.19.0 yet: Note that this is still in beta, so brave users need to install this manually (enable Beta updates for the app or from Client expert settings).

We hit a major new milestone our DEfO partnership project to accelerate adoption of #TLS Encrypted ClientHello (#ECH): Stephen Farrell made a pull request to #OpenSSL with a complete, working implementation: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/22938

Google's war on ad-blockers continues! Google will slow down the update process for third-party extensions by requiring them to be reviewed by the Chrome Web Store. 🚫

This means YouTube can counter ad-blockers while slowing their release of workarounds. 🤢

This David and Goliath situation looks to be even more unbalanced than previously thought.
👉 https://tuta.com/blog/google-search-monopoly

Delta chat and end-to-end encryption https://f-droid.org/en/2023/11/30/twif-delta-chat-e2e-encryption.html

@eighthave It is one of the many reasons why in PiRogue Tool Suite we decided to use another technique enabling TLS traffic decryption. Instead of using MITM proxy, we retrieve encryption keys directly from the device's memory: https://pts-project.org/guides/g8/#tls-traffic-decryption-techniques

🕵️ 🇨🇳 In #China, social media platforms #Weibo, #WeChat, #Douyin, #Zhihu, #Xiaohongshu, and #Kuaishou now require users to reveal their real names to the public. People are quitting as a result.

https://restofworld.org/2023/weibo-legal-display-name-influencers/

#privacy #surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism

Happy 36th anniversary of the Max Headroom Signal Hijacking, for those who celebrate.

Exhibit 1: "Tunnels solve traffic"

Exhibit 2: Lincoln tunnel

@TheWarOnCars #climate #cars #urbanism

So there is a lack of accessibility to folks in the #GlobalSouth in particular. These Motorolas cost around half of what the budget versions of Pixel phones cost and are sold in many countries in continents where Pixels are not, including in #SouthAmerica #Asia and #MENA

Thank you to #StartSmall and jack dorsey for believing in us, and for the funding that made this possible ! And a BIG thank you to our friends at @LineageOS for their work on platform support for the Motorola phones

Huge announcement ! @calyxos is now available for the Motorola G32, G42 and G52 ! Why is this a big deal ? Because it helps us further our mission of making #PrivacyByDesign available to the maximum amount of people around the world as we can..

Google Pixel phones are the default and easiest phones to support while maintaining the #Android security model with a locked boot loader and full verified boot. But they are only sold in around a dozen countries around the world...