Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos
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Awesome, thanks! You didn't install a previous version did you? Apparently you can't update to the current version due to the signature issue.
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Got it, thanks!
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Got it, thanks!
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Don't use Google Play. Prefer Obtanium, F-Droid or Aurora Store.
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Gimme Linux phone, I’m ready for it.
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There's an app called obtainium that let's you link the main page of github apps and manages both the download, the instalation and the updates of those apps.
Great if you want the latest software directly from the source.
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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.
Uninstall both asap -
What a pile of fuck.
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Why are you linking to a known Nazi website?
