I Tried the "Criminal's" Phone of Choice for a Month
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from Toasted_Breakfast@lemmy.today to privacy@lemmy.ml on 05 Nov 02:31
https://lemmy.today/post/41120844
from Toasted_Breakfast@lemmy.today to privacy@lemmy.ml on 05 Nov 02:31
https://lemmy.today/post/41120844
This idiots going to get it banned
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never gonna watch the “Idiot’s” channel of choice
Why do people still think he’s relevant?
Because he has 16 million subscribers? 🤔
That’s not a valid reason.
It’s what makes him relevant. Your personal feelings are not a valid reason.
They could be bots or socks, he could have paid for them. He did have a scandal where he lost a lot of followers (me included).
That doesn’t make him relevant. 🤷♂️
They’re not. And you know they’re not.
I don’t know anything about him since I stopped following him. The only thing I know is that he’s not trustworthy.
Ok so now we’ve moved the goalposts from “relevant” to “trustworthy”?
Not really. He’s neither.
I love that he is implying that GrapheneOS is the criminal OS of choice. /s
That had not even entered my mind before just associating it with privacy. Thanks Linus what a real help pushing that narrative with the title and thumbail.
If you watch the video, they’re citing Spanish officials. It was a big hurrah that went around a couple months ago.
androidauthority.com/why-i-use-grapheneos-on-pixe…
But yeah, it makes for great clickbait too. You know the GOS guys are foaming at the mouth already for their weekly HARRASSMENT debacle.
In an era of countries pushing things like chat control over and over and grasping at straws to try to ban encryption and pushing verification laws its so helpful for a big channel to spread the impression GrapheneOS is the criminals choice.
Just the type of helpful branding needed.
Agreed
Tbf, whenever there’s a private tool like graphene, tor, tails, whonix, mullvad, matrix, jabber, pgp, etc?
Yes, criminals will use it, because of course they don’t want to get caught for crimes just as much as we don’t want to be tracked in general (maybe more, because crimes lol).
But also, criminals use roads, trains, busses, the USPS and private mail carriers, normal phones including SMS and calls, facetime, email, they drink water and eat food, on and on.
“Criminals use it” is a fucking stupid reason to ban anything, in fact it’s a good reason we should adopt it too in terms of privacy, because if it works for them doing way worse than I am, then it ought to work just fine for me too. Besides over half of those criminals are just using WHM or whatever is the go to these days, define “criminals.”
I think Gamer Nexus settled the matter of Linus’ value - feel free to disregard and move on.
I didn’t know about it and just looked up the gamers nexus video. Bless gamers nexus for having our backs.
I think if people look past the clickbait title and thumbnail the video is actually a positive for GOS
Fuck Linus.
It certainly feels like GrapheneOS is the only project that is a threat to the government, which we all know have unlimited resources at their disposal, unlike Graphene Foundation.
this narrative that criminals use this OS, is exactly the excuse they’ll be looking for, the privacy community don’t have the high ground in this reality that we live in, considering past events (e.g. chat control) this content does more harm than good. (but some YouTuber has to get their Ad revenue)
he mentioned something about convenience in the last part, well if you throw them some money… they could hire someone to fix those issues…
Even better… Hire someone to fix those issues and submit an MR.
A Pixel phone in my country costs about twice as much as in the USA, and our monthly minimum wage is about four times lower… privacy is a luxury hard to afford :/
I have Linus blocked in my frontend and have no interest in unblocking.
I’m kinda astonished he uses more than 100 apps… who needs that many apps?
I just checked and I apparently have 137 apps on my phone. I think most of that though is just reading about some FOSS app, installing it to try it out and then just forgetting. I seem to have 4 different maps apps for example lol
I just counted mine, 28 apps, 17 of which came with the phone and I can’t uninstall - so I actually only installed 11, and 2 are games.
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Criminals like privacy, too.
Neither. Just another shameless YouTuber farming for clicks with no regard for the damage it causes.
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…what is “moronic”, exactly?
Oh no, not this tech illiterate idiot again. Ocasionally he shows up in some threads just making a complete fool of himself.
What in the clickety bait