The forum has a thread specifically about banking apps.

I understand. But I think it’s right that they concentrate on a few devices. There’s also something about SONY openly providing firmware and encouraging unlocking, something “Open Devices” iirc.

Ah, the N900…

What about LineageOS?

My guess is the problematic parts here aren’t open source so they should never show up in Lineage OS?

This is my fourth comment shilling SFOS here, but it just might be what you’re looking for. It is my daily driver.

Volla also has a (reliable, judging from reports) community version of SFOS

I haven’t tried, but I took a closer look at their wiki yesterday:

• the Main (official) devices are QEMU, i.e. virtual
• the list of Community devices is long, but whenever I clicked on something there were significant caveats

IMHO they should focus their efforts on getting at least one actual phone working fully.

I want this project to succeed, but until then I use Sailfish OS, btw.

Sailfish OS has it.

Unfortunately the project has some closed source bits which, imho, aren’t an issue when you look closer (some parts of the UI). Maybe I’m naive but I trust this EU company.

I use it as my daily driver. It certainly is frugal compared to recent Android versions, but fully functional.

It’s an actual Linux OS (as opposed to any Android version). Things work the same way they do on my laptop & server.

I was wondering the same actually:

Wouldn’t hard shutting down the internet shut down mobile communications as well. Of course a soft shutdown would allow for filtering that out. I wonder which one Iran chose.

our discussion

Not our. It’s a discussion you are trying to have with me about something I labeled as a layman’s guess.

I assume its a cookie setting, as I see the same behavior when I turn off tracking protection and ad blockers.

It goes way deeper than that. Fingerprinting is a whole thing. Your IP, combined with some characteristics about your browser, operating system and hardware… pretty unique.

Interesting to see what YT “thinks” about you.

I see 1995 twice there.

No matter how frugal the surface, underneath it’s all still there. Also something to remember when using Google search. the fact that it’s all white and clean does not mean it’s minimal.

Stock traders use shortwave radio to transmit digital data. Over long distances it’s apparently faster than the internet.

So yeah, there are always options.

You misunderestood; I guessed that cell towers could be helpful in circumventing such shutdowns. I edited my previous comment to make that a little clearer.

Everything is so fucked up, going into detail hardly matters.

If you were wondering what an eSafety boss is:

Julie Inman Grant, Australia’s eSafety Commissioner

Politics across the globe have been playing catch-up with digital realities for so long, it’s embarrassing. Only now they’re waking up to Facebook & Co, while new shit* pops up all the time, but again and again they believe that restricting a few platforms is the solution.

We need a whole new approach. One that involves politicians listening to actual experts instead of pollsters, I guess. What a mess.

* ways to seriously abuse internet users into giving up more data and create more ad revenue for content creators, platform owners, software developers companies. Even babies nowadays (if their parents let them watch that). [edit: yes, that’s about youtube, but also about AI if you watch closer. Point is, it’s not just one platform, it’s content producers putting revenue over content & ethical concerns, since nobody tells them where to stop]

It’s a good article for people who got so used to the internet permeating everything that they never considered the underlying infrastructure. But it’s there, and it can be controled - not just in Iran; though certainly countries like Iran and Russia put more effort into isolating it than others. But it will never be 100% - circumvention will always be possible - and I don’t mean VPNs, just other physical/technical means of accessing & distributing the internet and/or other forms of ditributed messaging. As a layman’s guess I’d say cell towers might factor into this.

This needs to end. I hope the lawsuit brings us a step closer to it.

And at this point, nobody can claim ignorance or incompetence. Online portals that deal with sensitive data, you need to code them properly.

Not that I think there wasn’t a profitable motive behind it.

No. But glad there’s a class action lawsuit coming. You’d prefer not to see an article about it?

Only if no kids (or just people in general) were harmed in the process. And it increasingly doesn’t look that way wrt LLMs.

Thanks for clarifying. Still, does this affect every “device” user out there? There must be some sort of explanation here, what’s the attack vector etc. I couldn’t find it even on that Lithuanian guy’s website.