Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos
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I can suffer a little smugness if it brings in to the fold atleast one dude who's never heard of LineageOS
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Thanks! Til
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For people who have not read the article:
Forbes states that there is no indication that this app can or will "phone home".
It's stated use is for other apps to scan an image they have access to find out what kind of thing it is (known as "classification"). For example, to find out if the picture you've been sent is a dick-pick so the app can blur it.
My understanding is that, if this is implemented correctly (a big 'if') this can be completely safe.
Apps requesting classification could be limited to only classifying files that they already have access to. Remember that android has a concept of "scoped storage" nowadays that let you restrict folder access. If this is the case, we'll it's no less safe than not having SafetyCore at all. It just saves you space as companies like Signal, WhatsApp etc. no longer need to train and ship their own machine learning models inside their apps, as it becomes a common library / API any app can use.
It could, of course, if implemented incorrectly, allow apps to snoop without asking for file access. I don't know enough to say.
Besides, you think that Google isn't already scanning for things like CSAM? It's been confirmed to be done on platforms like Google Photos well before SafetyCore was introduced, though I've not seen anything about it being done on devices yet (correct me if I'm wrong).
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if there was something that could run android apps virtualized, I'd switch in a heartbeat
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What about the "Android System Intelligence" app that someone else mentioned here? I just realized I have that one. It sounds like it has the capabilities to spy and maybe even more.
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Dood they scanned all my furry porn
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I've been considering putting graphene on my pixel for a month or so now, I'm just in tech and have a shit load of MFA entries in multiple apps that don't sync anywhere, and I don't have the energy to redo all that shit at work when I barely have enough time to do my normal shit....
I used to live rooting and throwing custom rooms on my phone, but I've been out of that for a decade and don't have a usable spare device to test/use as a backup.
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Google harvesting all your data for profits. I’m shocked. Shocked I say.
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hmm, i looked it up myself and it doesnt seem to say its installed for me there. Cant find it by searching on my phone, only on my pc through search engine. But someone on comments there brought a good point by telling that his some old phone basically bricked because of this due to it being incompitable.
I also have fairphone, though i'm not sure if that really is the reason. Maybe they are indeed gradually installing it then.
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The app can be found here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.safetycore
The app reviews are a good read.
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There's this, and another weather app.
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What a pile of fuck.
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Why are you linking to a known Nazi website?
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Can you share a summary or a screenshot to make it more accessible please?
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Waydroid?
To be clear, I haven't used it at all and have no idea how well it works.
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....this link is about Safety core. Which weather app?
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You can't export your MFA? Aegis for example allows this.
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I went to it on the Okay Store and uninstalled it. It didn't commission and so far all phone functionality is working funny. It seems like an addon that's not tightly bound to core OS components.
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I understand, I was in exactly the same position. Then my battery swelled and wouldn't hold a charge at all, so I couldn't restore anything anyway, and my last backup was inaccessible (I know I know, test your backups, but like I started this post with I'm in the same boat of all work and no time for me).
Losing everything was remarkably freeing. Just switch all your 2FA to Aegis as has been suggested, and save anything you want to back up over the wire, then take the plunge. You won't regret the switch
