Re:How Facebook tracks you on Android [video]
by kevin_thibedeau on Sunday December 30, 2018 @04:38PM
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LineageOS allows fine grained permission revocation that cuts most of the bullshit.
Re:How Facebook tracks you on Android [video]
by est31 on Sunday December 30, 2018 @08:15PM
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Filtering apps by license is a great filter for intent. There are many reasons people write FLOSS licensed software for, but the fewest include wanting to get your data. For economically thinking professional data collectors who e.g. put some dancing pigs game out to get your contact data, the gaining access to a small population aren't worth the effort of open sourcing. F-Droid also has the concept of antifeatures, which upfront informs users about potentially unwanted behaviour like tracking.
Re:How Facebook tracks you on Android [video]
by zozbot123 on Sunday December 30, 2018 @04:27PM
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I trust the community (including the security community) to do a better job at this than a handful of proprietary hardware and software vendors. Yes, it would be nice to have more openness on the hardware side too (and the Librem 5 phone is a worthwhile answer to that) but let's focus on the lowest-hanging fruit first.
Re:How Facebook tracks you on Android [video]
by scarface74 on Sunday December 30, 2018 @10:14PM
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How did that work out for HeartBleed bug that was in open source code for over two years?
Even worse, this 11 year old bug in the Linux kernel?
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/23/linux_kernel_gets_p...
Re:How Facebook tracks you on Android [video]
by bch on Sunday December 30, 2018 @10:45PM
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Heartbleed was found and fixed, and diagnostic tools quickly followed. OSS isn’t a panacea, but it’s something, no?
Re:How Facebook tracks you on Android [video]
by scarface74 on Sunday December 30, 2018 @10:50PM
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After two years? How is that better than closed source?
Re:How Facebook tracks you on Android [video]
by lern_too_spel on Sunday December 30, 2018 @11:14PM
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Do you go audit every line of source code in the apps and OS you install? Do you then verify that the binary blobs you're installing were built from the same source? Do you somehow audit the source for the firmware on your device and verify that that is the firmware installed on your device? What about the hardware, do you audit it?