black_mouflon

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[–] black_mouflon@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I ask that question and you failed to answer it twice. I'm interested in how they violate my privacy. Like, the mechanisms. To say Brave products are bad in one aspect therefore they are bad in all aspects is falacy of the composition.

[–] black_mouflon@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I don't know. That's why I'm asking.

[–] black_mouflon@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

What is the issue exactly with their search engine?

[–] black_mouflon@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

It was indeed a 2.4 Ghz one.

[–] black_mouflon@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I'll probably going to update to wired. It has all of the advanteges except portability. The only reason I got that wireless keyboard was that I needed something small, chaeap and portable.

[–] black_mouflon@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Thanks. For what kind of specs I should be looking when byuing a wireless product? What key words I should be looking for?

 

I aways wondered if the communication channel between my wireless keyboard and the usb receiver-antena is secure. I never bother to reseach this. Today I figured out the practical way. I turned on my pc at work and I tried to type the first letter of my password. Nothing hapened. Then I started spamming that letter. Still nothing, until the person next to me said "my keyboard is typing all by itself". It turns out she has a wireless mouse with a seemigly identical receiver-antena usb.

The moral of the story. If it was so easy to almost leak my password unintentionally due to this flaw of wireless keyboard communication, imagine wad a bad actor can do intentionally. Why try to brute force, social engineer e.t.c. when your password can be stollen in transit from your keyboard to your pc.

[–] black_mouflon@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But the Sanboxed Google play services, I would imagine is still closed sourced. Right? If true, just accounting for trying to minimize closed sorced software on device, Micro-g must be strictly better, in that one issue at least.

[–] black_mouflon@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I think what I've heard (more or less) is that they are equally private but GrapheneOS is more secure. I don't remember what the justification was though. I'm interested to see what replies your question gets.

I've always seen CalyxOS as the version that is the more user friendly (easier installation, better support. At least as of few years ago. Things migh have changed now.)

Personally what I question is the choice of GrapheneOS to use sanboxed Google play services rarher than the open source alternative micro-G. I can't see how that's better.

[–] black_mouflon@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Ok thanks. I've been using CalyxOS for a while and l'm not caught up with "regular" Android. But if this features are so usefull why aren't they merged to the AOSP (Android open source project)

[–] black_mouflon@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

It is on my phone on CalyxOS. I'm not sure about other operating systems. It could be that is not.I did't expect so much difference in functiinality since Calyx is based on AOSP.

[–] black_mouflon@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Indeed it is. Is this not typical?

[–] black_mouflon@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I thought you could do that through the setting "Allow client to use VPNs" in Network & internet -> Hotspot and tethering settings

 

How could my privacy be compromized in the time between me connecting to a public/work wifi hotspot and the time my vpn is connected.

Is there any use in 1. turning on my mobile data, 2. Connect to vpn, 3. Switch to wifi? Or it is just unnecessary and convoluted.

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