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...
EFF's latest report shows that many of the internet's ills have one thing in common: they're based on the business model of widespread corporate surveillance online. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/11/address-online-harms-we-must-first-do-privacy
Oh, and lastly, this whole Mastodon thread as a much more convenient blog post 😜:
I hacked some ECH (encrypted client hello) support in the JDK network stack the other day (in TLS 1.3).
https://github.com/johanvos/jdk/tree/ech2
Hey, so #RFC9460 HTTPS/SVCB records are neat, right?
They...
- speed up your time-to-first-packet (by basically stuffing the Alt-Svc HTTP header / ALPN TLS extension into the #DNS);
- let you do redirection on the zone apex without using CNAMEs;
- allow for simple DNS load distribution and failover;
- obviate HSTS and the cumbersone preloading process;
- enable stronger privacy protections via Encrypted Client Hello aka #ECH
#Wireshark can now present some of the details of #EncryptedClientHello in #TLS streams, as of v4.2.0. For example, it can dissect the #ECH config data that comes from DNS. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/merge_requests/12260
We have started the second round of our partnership https://defo.ie to ensure that the new #TLS standard called #EncryptedClientHello (#ECH) works for public interest use cases. We also are working to reduce the pressure towards #centralization inherent to the #privacy improvements of hiding the domain name. You can find more details in our project announcement: https://guardianproject.info/2023/11/09/defo-developing-ech-for-openssl-round-two/
We just created a #HOWTO for how to set up dev/test servers using our #TLS #EncryptedClientHello #ECH enabled forks of #OpenSSL #nginx and #curl running on #Debian. It should be very quick to get started using a new domain: https://guardianproject.info/2023/11/10/quick-set-up-guide-for-encrypted-client-hello-ech/
We are looking for feedback about how to help interested devs start messing around with #TLS #EncryptedClientHello #ECH. What are your blockers and interests?
The first fully merged, audited and shipped bit of code from our https://defo.ie project is Hybrid Public Key Encryption (#HKPE RFC9180), it has been shipped by #OpenSSL https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2023/10/18/ossl-hpke/ It is a building block for #EncryptedClientHello #ECH and #MessagingLayerSecurity #MLS, providing standard methods for using public key cryptography to encrypt arbitrary blocks of data.
For anyone who is interested in implementing #TLS Encrypted ClientHello (#ECH), we have set up a new public room: https://matrix.to/#/#ech-dev:matrix.org or irc://irc.oftc.net/ech-dev
Mozilla is ringing the alarm bell on a dangerous EU regulation.
@calyxinstitute's #CalyxOS developers did some review of their #Android-based project and found no leaks:
https://gitlab.com/CalyxOS/calyxos/-/issues/1947
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Der @ORF_News Bot hat jetzt seine eigene Instanz und eine Menge neuer Funktionen. Die Sparten und Bundesländernachrichten haben jetzt ihre eigenen Konten und dementsprechend ist eine viel flexiblere Filterung der Nachrichten und Beiträge des #ORF möglich.
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Apparently #iPhone's #WiFi MAC privacy protection never really worked as released in 2020, they apparently just fixed it in 17.1 after years of touting this privacy protection.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/10/iphone-privacy-feature-hiding-wi-fi-macs-has-failed-to-work-for-3-years/
For example, the biggest #mobile #malware incident that I know about remains #XCodeGhost https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XcodeGhost, which got into over 4000 apps, which all passed #Apple's review and were shipped by the Apple App Store. All told, those apps were installed 128 million times. Another measure is #NSOGroup #Pegasus which seems to have maintained zero click access to #Android and #iOS for years. That is spread by exploiting messenger apps, not by #AppStore or "sideloading" 3/
Google and Apple provide data about the malware they catch in their app store review processes. Both of them talk about "sideloading" as a security risk. Notably, neither Apple nor Google provide data on how much malware comes from outside of their app stores. Nor do they provide data-based analysis of which is the bigger threat: malware that makes it into their app stores or from other channels. They have this data, they track installs and active apps plus there is #PlayProtect #XProtect etc 2/
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