What I think is that I should probably look into installing GrapheneOS on my Google Pixel.
What’s weird is that former eastern European countries like Slovakia are more democratic than wester the western European ones.
If a cop stops me, he doesn’t care what I have on my phone or what my phone is. He just asks me for an ID card (and also driver’s license and papers for the vehicle if I’m driving).
That is more freedom inthis particular way, but not necessarily more democracy.
Edit: and reading more about it, it’s not even true about the Spanish confiscations.
That would be treason.
He has the right, but not the ability…
This is the second time I’ve come across this story.
If you look closely, random people are not being taken aside for being seen with a Pixel as the headline would have you believe.
What is true is that Graphene OS on a Pixel is a popular, easy setup that can’t be cracked open with Cellebrite et al., and that makes the piggies very sad. Methinks someone wants readers to fear using Graphene OS.
Also, Graphene has that duress mode, you set a pin/password that when entered locks out storage, does a wipe, while leaving grapheneOS in place. It seems US citizens maybe needing this in the future.
If autocrats manage to fully take over, they’ll just enact a policy that assumes you’re guilty of the charges if the phone, for whatever reason, gets wiped (especially after entering a code you provided). Your “right to silence” isn’t gonna last forever.
You can’t fix an abuse of power issue with a technological solution, its only a bandaid, and it will stop working when blood keeps gushing out (aka: the instutions of democracy starts to completely fall apart)
Where can I find these hacktools ? I have a whole damn bunch of android 9 phones I can’t root because their bootloaders are non-unlockable and that pisses me off.
Back in my day, hackers would just publish that shit in 2600 zine, now they’re all corporate sellouts selling on 0day to the fucking fed.
Grapheneos is only installable on unlocked phones. Specifically pixels. There is a complete list on their site
xda probably has that
Confiscated for having GrapheneOS? What?
Should have put Hannah Montana Linux on their phone instead. SMH my head
Shaking my head my head?
Sir, please put your Nix config away, this is a court of law.
I declaratively configured myself to not be in prison. checkmate, laws i win this round
error: illegal configuration line 'imprisoned = false' in '/etc/nix/nix.conf' Try 'nix-build --help' for more information. ```
What the duress password was built for tbh.
