Goolag adds buttons for a false sense of security

Introducing auto-delete controls for your Location History and activity data

https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/automatically-delete-data/

#google #location #history

A doorbell company owned by Amazon wants to start producing “crime news” and it’ll definitely end well
Because what good is a panopticon if you can’t generate some clicks?

With "Ring" Amazon manufactures intercoms with video function. So far, so good. Now the company wants to turn the recorded material directly and indirectly into money and is setting up its own media department. This department will probably process the most exciting recordings in the well-known reality TV style and bring them to the people with a "journalistic" touch. Practical side effect: Ring has a suitable offer for those who are afraid of the videos.

https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/04/a-doorbell-company-owned-by-amazon-wants-to-start-producing-crime-news-and-itll-definitely-end-well/

The Doorbell Company That’s Selling Fear: Amazon-owned Ring is hiring editors to push local crime news to its users
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/amazon-owned-ring-wants-report-crime-news/588394/


📡 @NoGoolag
#Ring #amazon #DeleteAmazon #doorbell #crimenews #realityTV #why

Criminals are hiding in Telegram – but backdoors are not the answer

When it comes to an easy life, the criminals behind the fearful Anubis banking malware have become big fans of Twitter and, increasingly, the secure messaging of Telegram.

There’s nothing new in malware piggybacking on popular services but why Twitter and Telegram, and is the recent migration to secure messaging significant?
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/05/03/criminals-are-hiding-in-telegram-but-backdoors-are-not-the-answer/

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ACLU: Border Agents Violate Constitution When They Search Electronic Devices

The American Civil Liberties Union says it has uncovered new evidence that federal border agents are violating the Constitution when they search travelers' electronic devices.

The ACLU, along with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, sued the federal government in 2017, alleging that its "warrantless and suspicionless searches" of electronic devices at the U.S. ports of entry violated the First and Fourth amendments. Lawyers now say that, through depositions of border agents, they have learned that the scope of the warrantless searches has expanded far beyond the mere enforcement of immigration and customs laws.
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/02/719337356/aclu-border-agents-violate-constitution-when-they-search-electronic-devices

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Tutanota launches Secure Connect, an encrypted contact form, to support Press Freedom. Secure Connect is an open source encrypted communication tool which lets people communicate with the representative of a website securely and anonymously.

https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/tutanota-launches-secure-connect-encrypted-contact-form


#secureconnect #tutanota #press

If you are having issues with extensions in your Firefox getting disabled, there was an issue with the signing certificate of Mozilla. They have already sent out a patch for that, but it requires you to enable Studies (privacy issue!!).

To bypass that, you can install the patch directly from the link below

https://storage.googleapis.com/moz-fx-normandy-prod-addons/extensions/hotfix-update-xpi-intermediate%40mozilla.com-1.0.2-signed.xpi

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Sources

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19826903
[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/05/04/update-regarding-add-ons-in-firefox/comment-page-6/#comment-226171
[2] https://normandy.cdn.mozilla.net/api/v1/recipe/

Alternative way:

Go to: https://normandy.cdn.mozilla.net/api/v1/recipe/

there, search "Update XPI signing intermediate" and you find the addonUrl parameter with the link to the XPI

Aurora Store

Aurora Store is an UnOfficial FOSS client to Google's Play Store, with an elegant design, using Aurora you can download apps,
update existing apps, search for apps, get details about in-app trackers and much more.

You can also Spoof your Device Information, Language and Region to get access to the apps that are not yet available
or restricted in your Country|Device.

Aurora Store does not require Google's Proprietary Framework (Spyware ?) to operate, it works perfectly fine with
or without GooglePlayService or MicroG. Thereby avoding the various concerned *userdata & privacy issues.

📖 Readme
https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AuroraStore/blob/master/README.md

🗣 Telegram Group:
t.me/AuroraSupport

📡 Releases Channel:
t.me/AuroraOfficial

XDA:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/galaxy-playstore-alternative-t3739733

4PDA
https://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=887569


⬇️ Downloads:
- Join the telegram group for the most recent alpha and beta builds

F-Droid
https://f-droid.org/app/com.aurora.store

XDA Labs
https://labs.xda-developers.com/store/app/com.aurora.store

Nightly builds
(Not recomended for daily use)
http://auroraoss.com/Nightly


🌍 How to use GeoSpoof to download apps that are not available in your region
https://telegra.ph/Aurora-Store-GeoSpoof-08-13

📝 Translations:
https://poeditor.com/join/project/54swaCpFXJ

⌨️ Source Code:
https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AuroraStore


📡 @NoGoolag
#aurora #store #playstore #alternative #yalp

Magisk developer John Wu picks up internship at Apple

Among Android root and ROM enthusiasts, the name John Wu is well-known, being attached to the developer responsible for Magisk. Wu's systemless root solution has had a blistering development pace, repeatedly beating Google when it comes to the cat and mouse game imposed by SafetyNet and other system changes. But today the 23-year-old developer has announced a surprising career move: He's going to be an intern at Apple for the next four months.

It's fairly astounding that Google didn't try to snap him up, given both his deep familiarity with the platform and his well-recognized status among the Android enthusiast development community. Google's loss is Apple's gain, though.

https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/05/04/magisk-developer-john-wu-picks-up-internship-at-apple/

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Please vote NO in this poll from @itsrevengeos / @RevengeOSNews

All roms should be spyware free.
Let masochism be opt-in, not by default.

Brave: Browser with its own advertising concept

I often hear the question why I don't recommend the Brave Browser and why I don't participate in the Brave Rewards program. First of all, the browser is based on Chrome - that's enough for me to avoid it as much as possible. Browsers based on Chrome are usually closely linked to Google services. As a user who is sensitive to data protection, I am happy to do without it.

I also find the "advertising concept" unconvincing. The integrated advertising blocker initially prevents advertising from being displayed. Brave then fades in its own advertising, which in the opinion of the developers is "less harmful" and does not make the user traceable on the Internet. For advertising, a fee is to be paid to the user as well as to the advertiser in the form of Basic Attention Tokens (BAT).

Currently, the browser can be operated completely free of advertising - i.e. even without advertising that displays Brave. In the future, this model may be adapted. Who decides then against the Ad Replacement, that must deactivate the integrated advertising blocker. Inevitably this means: In Brave, the user is either shown advertising from the respective website or advertising via the "Ad Replacement" concept. Unlike other browsers, the user cannot completely suppress advertising, for example via Adblocker plug-ins such as uBlock Origin. Whether this will be implemented in this way, however, is still speculation.

Final conclusion: Not recommended

Source:

https://www.kuketz-blog.de/brave-browser-mit-eigenem-werbekonzept/

📡 @NoGoolag
#brave #browser #advertising #kuketz

Nanodroid 20.8.20190504 "Prometheus" released!

https://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/magisk/module-nanomod-5-0-20170405-microg-t3584928/post79462263

Hi everyone,

version 20.8 Codename: Prometheus" (https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/USS_Prometheus_(Prometheus_class)

Important Notes

1) Full and microG packages up to version 20.7 by default installed Google Play. Starting with version 20.8 the default behaviour is changed and by default Aurora Store and Fake Store are now installed. If you previously ran the Setup Wizard nothing will change. If you don't have your own nanodroid-setup configuration file, you'll notice the different setup.

2) Bromite System WebView 74.x breaks Google Login. The Bromite System WebView thus stays at version 73.0.3683.107 until the bug is fixed. After logging in to your Google Account with all desired apps, you may update to the latest Bromite System WebView using F-Droid.

Highlights

1) Support for new Magisk 19.0 module format
2) switched from Aurora Store v2 to v3
3) several internal improvements and fixes


Full ChangeLog since 20.7
[code]## 20.8.20190504

### Bug Fixes

* Full, microG packages
* fix bootloop with OmniROM Pie

* Patcher
* explicitely set permissions on installed files

* CommonInstaller
* fix creating installation logs
* installation of full package requires atleast 512 MB free space from TWRP, stop installation if there isn't enough free space

### General

* Installer
* add support for Magisk 19.0
* Magisk < 19.0 still supported
* improved A/B partition scheme support (from Magisk 19.0 @topjohnwu)
* proper error message when unzip fails due to not enough space available
* improved logging
* code improvements

* Full package
* switch to official stable OpenLauncher build (0.6.1)
* drop Yahoo Weather Provider (they closed their APIs)

* Full, microG package
* switch from Aurora Store v2 (com.dragons.aurora) to v3 (com.aurora.store) @Vavun

* Patcher
* support installing patched services.jar into Magisk 19.0+ modules
* install org.spoofing system pseudo-app after patching @Vavun
* this is adds ROM wide *cosmetic* information about Signature Spoofing (so it shows up in the App Permissions)

* Uninstaller
* support uninstalling Magisk 19.0+ modules

* nanodroid-util script
* add -r, --reset-gms-data param, resets GMS data (including GCM registration) for given app (or all, if none) @ale5000

* nanodroid-perm script
* will now also set required permissions for uNlp backends

* sysconfig
* improved sysconfig for better uNlp Pie support @oF2pks, @Vavun

### Updates

* automatic
* AnySoftKeyboard (1.10.364)
* Tor Browser (60.6.1)
* Simple Calendar (6.4.3)
* Simple Gallery (6.6.4)
* OsmAnd+ (3.3.6)
* NewPipe (0.16.1)
* Oandbackup (0.3.5-universal)
* Bromite System WebView (73.0.3683.107)
* F-Droid (1.6)
* Aurora Store (3.0.4)
* nlpBackend Déjà Vu (1.1.11)
* QKSMS (3.6.4)
* Termux (0.68)
* Substratum (1020)

* manual
* Play Store (14.7.50)
* microG GmsCore (0.2.6.15181-79)

* tools
* GNU Nano (4.0)
* Busybox (1.30.1) [installer only][/code]

Download links
Nanolx https://downloads.nanolx.org/NanoDroid/Stable

Bug reporting

In case of errors, please provide
*/data/adb/MODID_log_INSTALLDATE
*/data/adb/MODID_twrp_INSTALLDATE
*SysTest package logfile
*logcat (if applicable)


The next release will include greatly improved init.d scripts, for the curious see the ChangeLog:
https://gitlab.com/Nanolx/NanoDroid/blob/master/ChangeLog.md#209-in-dev
Finally got around improving them.

#nanodroid

Kiwi browser has been removed from Google's Playstore

The developer https://www.reddit.com/user/arnaudx42 has appealed to the ban

https://discordapp.com/invite/XyMppQq

https://www.reddit.com/r/kiwibrowser

https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-kiwi-browser-chromium-adblock-caf-t3797252

https://labs.xda-developers.com/store/app/com.kiwibrowser.browser

#kiwi #browser #chrome #playstore #why