Privacy in Computing
In late July 2021 Amnesty International together with The Citizen Lab published an analysis showing the widespread use of NGO Group's Pegasus software. Pegasus is a type of spyware that is commercially available to anyone willing to pay the asking price, and can be used to spy on the carrier of a mobile phone using pretty much any technological feature of the phone. Reading messages and Emails, turning on the camera and microphone, capturing keystrokes …
Backups and more Network Sniffing
Loading up with Applications
Phone setup and initial impressions
Setting up the environment
Escaping the walled gardens
Google Changes the Rules, and that brings with it the end of the walled gardens.
A short news item on Late Night Linux episode
126 referencing this
Public Security Announcement
in r/privacytoolsIO on Reddit gave me a very rude awakening. It describes
Google forcing application developers to hand over their package signing keys to
Google so they can sign the packages on their behalf. This change was introduced
along with the change from APK …