Guardian Project @guardianproject@librem.one

In case you missed it: Last week we released a new interview with Sovereign Tech Fellow @hugovk.

Hugo is a leading voice in the Python community. The projects he maintains are downloaded over 280 million times a month, including libraries used in NASA missions. The interview shows how Hugo's passion for contributions has developed into future-proofing the entire Python ecosystem.

🗞️ Read the interview: https://www.sovereign.tech/news/meet-hugo-van-kemenade

#MaintainerSpotlight

Some #Android #SDK packages are updated with a revision number, but #sdkmanager does not allow installs to use that revision number. This sometimes breaks #ReproducibleBuilds. There is an issue open since 2017 about this:
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/38045649

If anyone wants this feature, it should be easy to implement in #FDroid's sdkmanager:
https://gitlab.com/fdroid/sdkmanager/-/issues/26

So, the #Austrian Parliament ignores all expert opinion and ratifies a law to allow #statetrojan #spyware to be bought and used, making the whole population less safe while spending tax money on (non-EU) malware instead of more actual police forces. #Karner has won - at least until #VfGh nullifies it (again) - in getting his legal illusion past the Parliament, even though it can't be technically implemented as written in the law.

https://orf.at/stories/3399187/

> Nach jahrelanger Diskussion ist die Messengerüberwachung am Mittwoch vom Nationalrat ermöglicht worden. Widerstand gab es nicht nur von FPÖ und Grünen, sondern auch innerhalb der Koalition von NEOS-Abgeordneten. Mit der Vorlage wird es dem Staatsschutz künftig möglich sein, unverschlüsselte und verschlüsselte Nachrichten bei Diensten wie WhatsApp und Signal auszulesen.

Does anyone know of any #FreeSoftware implementations of the #RCS encrypted messaging protocol? There is the nine year old
https://github.com/android-rcs/rcsjta I wonder if that is usable?

#E2EE #Android #messaging