Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

Court ruling rejects spyware vendor’s motion to dismiss lawsuit filed by Apple. Judge says anti-hacking laws fits #Pegasus case „to a T“. #NSOGroup will fight on https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/24/us_judge_rejects_pegasus_spyware/ #Staatstrojaner

Fun fact: it's data privacy week 🔒 so here are some of our favorite extensions for a safer online experience.

1. Multi-account containers! cookies are separated by container, so you can use multiple accounts at the same time.

2. Privacy badger: this extension automatically blocks invisible trackers and opts you out of data sharing & selling.

3. History cleaner: this deletes browsing history older than a specified number of days 👀

Which ones are you currently using?

This week in F-Droid (TWIF) with news about following apps was published:

- Element with an update and a fix for a critical bug
- The Fossify fork of Simple Mobile Tools has now 2 additional apps: File Manager and Calendar
- Kore was downgraded due to a non FOSS dependency
- Transportr is back after more than a year

Also, we've had 8 more new apps, 2 removed ones and 150 updated apps.

https://f-droid.org/2024/01/18/twif.html

#FDroid

We have defined a secure and usable architecture for decentralized package repositories that any mobile user can use and understand possible risks.

The next official release of the official F-Droid client will widely deploy this to our users. We then plan to make a final architecture document, so others can understand the whole model.

We would love any kind of feedback, our drafts are here: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/wiki/-/wikis/Repository-Management-Overhaul#architecture-and-ux-considerations

Jeder Mensch sollte wissen dürfen, was der Staat in aller Namen tut und wo unsere Steuergelder hinfließen. Wir sind deshalb heute beim Hearing im Verfassungsausschuss. Macht braucht Kontrolle & 🇦🇹 ein Grundrecht auf Informationsfreiheit.

Statement about the EU Cyber Resilience Act https://bits.debian.org/2023/12/debian-statement-cyber-resillience-act.md.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Call for Debian projects and mentors for the Google Summer of Code 2024. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2024/01/msg00001.html

Persistent surveillance sold as a cure for loneliness (alienation, isolation, etc) is, IMO, one of the central marketing narratives of the surveillance business model.

But it's rarely put as plainly as this!

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sam-altman-openai-protected-by-silicon-valley-friends-f3efcf68?st=fqvjf26wqvek9fx&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

The US #Supremecourt has declined #Twitter's legal challenge to publicly disclose national security subpoenas. 👨‍⚖️

At Tuta, we pride ourselves on #privacy and #transparency. Our warrant #canary is live and regularly updated. This is one reason among many that keeping your data securely #encrypted within the EU has major privacy advantages over the US. 📣

You can check out our transparency report and live warrant canary here:
👉 https://tuta.com/blog/transparency-report

🧑‍🎨 Du hast Lust, die Netzpolitik anschaulicher & bunter zu gestalten und den zivilgesellschaftlichen Impact zu erhöhen? 📢 Dann komm in unser Team als ehrenamtliche Grafiker:in! Wir suchen immer projektbasierte Unterstützung. 😊
https://epicenter.works/jobs/ehrenamt-grafikerin

The largest US dam-removal effort to date has begun - https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/01/the-largest-us-dam-removal-effort-to-date-has-begun/ great to see - more please....

Nice: you can launch Quark Engine from JADX. This was added in 2021, but I had missed the features.
Maybe I should tell JADX to integreate DroidLysis ;-)

#quark #JADX #Android #malware

Build your phone app on your phone https://f-droid.org/en/2024/01/11/twif.html

This week in F-Droid (TWIF) was published again. We have some short sentences about:

- The new app AndroidIDE: no NDK support and F-Droid client does not build (yet)
- NewPipe updates still not reproducible
- SimpleX Chat update also for arm64
- Smoke and SmokeStack with new icon and older Android versions

On top of that, we updated 75 more apps.

https://f-droid.org/2024/01/11/twif.html

#FDroid