By making a minor concession EU governments hope to find a majority next week to approve the controversial „chat control“ bill. According to the proposed child sexual abuse regulation (CSAR), providers of messengers, e-mail and chat services would be forced to automatically search all private messag
If you are using Windows or mac, they will be first in line to implement “protection” against “insecure software” :)
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Yesterday Google play kindly un-installed KDE connect for my “security” as it is a “dangerous app”
I promptly re-installed from f-Droid.
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And since I didn’t want to root my old phone, I just disabled all of the Google services via adb.
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When I said privacy respecting software, I definitely did not mean windows or Mac lol. Open source is the only way to actually know something respects your privacy, so both those pieces of software are inherently not that. Linux for life!
That’s like already the thing, if I modify my little “secure encrypted sharing protocol” windows will flag it as a virus if I send it (the software) to someone … Then after some time it’s ok. Guess it’s about those antivirus heuristics, but it’s not like it’s not putting a big stick in my bicycle wheel.