You can use two factor, fingerprint plus pin and have the pin layout randomize each time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4kuIQBkHiw

The hardware driver updates are absolutely critical if you want to have a secure phone. The phone has to be within the support window, to get any hardware driver updates. The risk surface of a phone’s hardware is huge, you’ve got the Bluetooth drivers, you’ve got the Wi-Fi drivers, you’ve got the modem drivers, and any other sensors I may have forgotten about.

Could you explain how phones are insecure by design?

I’m pretty sure this person was just looking for a reason to sue, and then tried to construct the most salacious situation to sue about.

I’m not against them suing, I think web tracking is evil, so more power to them, but I definitely feel like a lawyer helped architect the actual complaint

Depends on your friends threat model, lineage will work on it.

No security updates makes the Pixel 4a a bold choice for your main phone. I don’t recommend it

I would follow the graphene OS recommended phone guide, that gives you maximum flexibility to put any operating system you want on the phone.

Identity is a human right, digital systems should NOT have the power to revoke your identity.

It is of critical importance to design digital identity systems that ensure the privacy of citizens as well as protecting them from issuer corruption. Unfortunately, what Europe’s and USA’s public sectors are currently developing does not offer such basic protections. We aim to solve this issue and propose a method for untraceable selective disclosure and privacy preserving revocation of digital credentials, using the unique homomorphic characteristics of second order Elliptic Curves and Boneh-Lynn-Shacham (BLS) signatures. Our approach ensures that users can selectively reveal only the necessary credentials, while protecting their privacy across multiple presentations. We also aim to protect users from issuer corruption, by making it possible to apply a threshold for revocation to require collective agreement among multiple revocation issuers.

Web tracking on the shopping site using JavaScript and advertising IDs.

This is the bog standard advertisement tracking issue we talk about all the time, but now it involves sex!

No real-time tracking of people’s movements or packages. Just computer usage on the website

From a showrunner perspective, you want to have a diverse set of sets, activities, and situations you can perform in. That leaves you either with wealthy characters, who can justify doing these things in these exotic places. Or poor characters who behave wealthy inexplicably.

Ie friends where people working dead end jobs had housing better than most millionaires.

It’s possible of course, but it’s far more under your control than buying a service from a third party company who has no legal obligation to you

Low effort to make a new alias, versus no effort to make a new catch-all address.

When you own a domain name, you own it forever. You don’t depend on the third party, they can’t take it away from you.

Catch all email addresses are good for convenience, and limiting who can talk to you, but as you pointed out not for anonymity, if you need to be anonymous, you can’t use an email alias service that you pay for either. You have to use tor, and disposable email addresses.

Plus you can automate your inbox, auto route some emails to another mailbox, auto purge males to this inbox, it’s totally in your control.

It’s all down to your threat model and convenience, personally for myself, being able to know that Xfinity has leaked my email address again, and I just block that Xfinity email address from getting any mail. That’s great.

As far as random spam, it does happen occasionally, it’s fairly rare

Mid tier B550m.

The person your talking with is letting perfect be the enemy of good.

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/basics/vpn-overview/

This is a really good review about the actual tradeoffs involved.

Fun twist in the grey goo scenario

I had this happen yesterday!

Rodecaster pro II has USB ports that function as both a client and a master, and was back feeding enough power into a gigabyte motherboard to keep the ram LEDs on, the Ethernet WOL status light, and prevent the system from powering on.

I ordered a bunch of USB power blockers (porta pow) and we will see if it fixes the issue.

For privacy promoting group, they want to know a lot of centralized information

It’s like crazy ex syndrome. They block you, but if you block them back in reciprocating fashion now your the bad person.

It would be nice if they gave a reason to play. I’m all maxed out and don’t feel the dopamine of progression without some metric I can improve.

That looks good!