An Open Letter Against Apple's Privacy-Invasive Content Scanning Technology

Re:An Open Letter Against Apple's Privacy-Invasive Content S... by Dracophoenix on Friday August 06, 2021 @03:01PM (#28091489)

I saw your blogpost [1] mentioning how the iPhone 12 is likely your last. Have you given any thought since then to what your next smartphone would be? Or if you still use smartphone at all?

[1]https://sneak.berlin/20210202/macos-11.2-network-privacy/

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Re:An Open Letter Against Apple's Privacy-Invasive Content S... by sneak on Saturday August 07, 2021 @06:27AM (#28097456)

I already don't put a SIM in my phone; I use a dumbphone for GSM.

I will likely begin using Lineage OS or Graphene. I'll begin testing soon and will probably post what I end up doing, either on my blog or the bbs.

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Re:An Open Letter Against Apple's Privacy-Invasive Content S... by Dracophoenix on Saturday August 07, 2021 @04:21PM (#28101495)

Have you considered Purism and Fairphone or are their specs too underwhelming to consider?

With regards to your laptop, does not being able to use Mac-specific development tools (XCode, etc.) interfere with your work in any way or do you just limit the work you take to ones that are friendlier to Linux?

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Re:An Open Letter Against Apple's Privacy-Invasive Content S... by sneak on Sunday August 08, 2021 @07:58PM (#28111342)

I run macOS on some of my laptops, connected to the internet only via a VPN router on which I have root and can filter traffic.

Rarely do I need to do macOS-specific stuff though.

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Re:An Open Letter Against Apple's Privacy-Invasive Content S... by Dracophoenix on Sunday August 08, 2021 @10:54PM (#28112309)

Laptops with an "s"? How many do you have and how many do you carry on your person? When you say you run MacOS on your laptops, do you mean as a VM or on Apple hardware? Did you keep the M1 laptop you blogger about or did you send it back?

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