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Why exactly am I re-reading your post? Im in complete agreement with you? Should I not be?
Why exactly am I re-reading your post? Im in complete agreement with you? Should I not be?
Updates to secure the operating systems are worth it. Apple has a fantastic track record of supporting the older phones. It shows they’ve really planned ahead and thought about the entire lifecycle of their device. They will also accept your old phone after its life is complete and responsibly recycle it.
It’s in the draft phase from what I can see.
Having Signal fill in gaps for what the OS should be protecting is just going to stretch Signal more than it already does. I would agree that if Signal can properly support that kind of protection on EVERY OS that its built for, go for it. But this should be an OS level protection that can be offered to Signal as an app, not the other way around.
If your device is turned on and you are logged in, your data is no longer at rest.
Signal data will be encrypted if your disk is also encrypted.
If your device’s storage is not encrypted, and you don’t have any type of verified boot process, then thats on you, not Signal.
Feel free to submit a pull request. We could use your help.
You can get an Apple TV, which is an external device you connect to your TV if you’re already in the apple ecosystem. You can use your iPhone as a remote for it.
There is also the Nvidia Shield option, which is a solid Android TV option.
And of course, you can just use any pc as an input device and use that.
The firmware thats actually on the “smart tv” might be tough to replace with an open source solution. Im sure there are some TV modders out there, but its probably very niche. Best to get an external device of your choice imo.
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You must be one of those self-driven, motivated, and energetic developers
Can also check out Phoenix connectors
Regarding desktop antivirus, it’s often the case where it is not necessary to have. Windows has Windows Defender built-in, and other operating systems have other means to mitigate any type of viruses. There are actually reports of antivirus causing attacks because their hooks are so deep in the operating system.
Even trusted apps and app stores are prone to being malicious. The upstream packages that they use can have a malicious developer or insecure package, and it gets incorporated in the app, then distributed. Thats why it’s important to use devices that get hardware/firmware updates to help protect against this. If a rootkit is installed, there is no way to ever get rid of it on your system.
No amount of antivirus or alternative OSs will save you from unpatched hardware vulnerabilities though. Visiting a malicious web page or downloading a temporarily hostage app from your favorite app store can be enough to allow the bad guys into your device.
As long as you have a currently supported device and keep it up to date, you shouldn’t ever need antivirus.
Guess where they got their inspiration from?
https://spectrum.ieee.org/where-is-hbo-silicon-valleys-real-pied-piper-look-in-troon-scotland
AKA the new internet (the SAFE network) that has been in development for 18 years and is about to hit beta here in the upcoming weeks.
Don’t worry, a new internet is coming soon. Then we can leave all this behind.
Yes, I believe opinion pieces should be labeled appropriately and possibly placed on a separate community. Not sure why that’s such a controversial thought.
These are the pieces that feel like they’re designed to be dramatic, and push that feeling onto the readers. They’re not fact-based pieces, yet still get published alongside fact-based pieces on MSNBC. They’re then posted on targeted social media, where it typically isn’t checked for facts.
LUCKILY this headline says it’s an opinion, but take notice of how many headlines here don’t have it, but link to opinions.
msnbc dot com slash opinion
Its more about protecting your boot process from malware.