schizoidman@lemmy.zip to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 23 days agoHead of the Signal app threatens to withdraw from Europewww.bluewin.chexternal-linkmessage-square54fedilinkarrow-up1276arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: europe@feddit.orgtechnology@lemmy.world
arrow-up1276arrow-down1external-linkHead of the Signal app threatens to withdraw from Europewww.bluewin.chschizoidman@lemmy.zip to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 23 days agomessage-square54fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: europe@feddit.orgtechnology@lemmy.world
minus-squarerumba@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·23 days agoEurope: Companies can’t lock down your operating system. Also Europe: Companies must force back doors into their operating systems. I wonder how long those two things can coexist.
minus-squareEm Adespoton@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up7·23 days agoWell, Google’s current behaviour is already putting the future existence of F-Droid into question.
minus-squarerumba@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·23 days agoWe need FOSS phones badly and in numbers that manufacturing isn’t horrible. That is until our governments force carriers not to connect them. If I could find a reasonably priced 8" Linux tablet, I’d sell my phone and buy a cellular wifi AP.
minus-squareՈրբունի@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up2·23 days agoYou can spoof IMEI and pretend your phone is an old iPhone. Carriers wouldn’t know.
Europe: Companies can’t lock down your operating system.
Also Europe: Companies must force back doors into their operating systems.
I wonder how long those two things can coexist.
Well, Google’s current behaviour is already putting the future existence of F-Droid into question.
We need FOSS phones badly and in numbers that manufacturing isn’t horrible. That is until our governments force carriers not to connect them.
If I could find a reasonably priced 8" Linux tablet, I’d sell my phone and buy a cellular wifi AP.
You can spoof IMEI and pretend your phone is an old iPhone. Carriers wouldn’t know.