Dr Daniel, Photon Shepherd🇸🇪🇦🇺
Chester Wisniewski 🇨🇦RE: https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi/116263819407575175
That's right folks, it is now easier to buy a firearm than to load open source software on your phone in America.
PeterIt's a *one-time* delay when you seek to turn off the protection that stops the user from side-loading apps.
To be honest, given how many security-blind people use Android now, I can live with this.
Time was when Android users were all "power users", like Linux users used to be. Those days are long gone.
A bigger issue is Google closing Android off from side-loading apps at all.
@PeterLG this makes no sense and will protect no one. I'm just going to be angry the next day when I either gain access to what I need or proceed to shoot myself in the foot, but angrily.
You've never had to deal with an upset great-grandfather who is confused about why his bank account has been drained, just to find out a helpful bloke rang up to configure his Samsung phone to get "free messaging" the week before, have you?
You flip the switch when you first set up your phone, and it never bothers you again. Big deal.
Google closing off side-loading completely is a much bigger issue.
RokosunAnd this will be their first step towards closing off "side-loading" entirely, do not give them the benefit of the doubt. They want to steal our right to install the software of our choosing on the device that we bought and paid for, but before they can do that they introduced this "advanced-flow" to prevent the normalization and prevalence of 3rd party app distributers like @fdroidorg
There is malware on Google play store, it was never about safety.
Paco Hope@chetwisniewski Coming soon you will need two independent doctors to both agree that side loading is right for you.
Roknrol@chetwisniewski As the founding fathers intended.
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Varx@chetwisniewski Big brain 'Murica move -- make a gun that requires a side loaded android app to fire. Now google is infringing on my 2A rights.
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Farhan Ahmed@chetwisniewski like the saying goes “the pen is mightier than the sword” except in this case freedom to put whichever software on your device is mightier than the gun!
Cassandrich@chetwisniewski Thankfully it's only to do the initial unlocking of this misfeature, not every time you want to install something. But we've pushed back this much. We should push for more. Like canceling this bs entirely.
LukefromDC@chetwisniewski Thankfully, we know from the experience of the "assault weapon" ban that a ban on phones with locked bootloaders will just put an end to operable older phones with unlockable bootloaders being thrown out.
Like high capacity gun magazines 1994-2004, they will be kept running as long as possible and trade over ebay, craigslist, and if necessary the darknet.
Especially valuble will be phones old enough to have removable batteries that can be changed without having to get the screen off.
shwell@chetwisniewski So switch
TeflonTrout 
he/himOh yes apple is famously cool with sideloading oh wait that was a thoughtless suggestion
@TeflonTrout @chetwisniewski Linux is the answer. Linux Mint MATE edition is an excellent transition.
Yes, I agree Mint is fabulous, but It won't run on a cell phone as the base OS, though it'll run happily in a VM
Gotta read the toots, kind rando
Paul_IPv6apps don't kill people. people pissed off about apps kill people...
zl2todSurely this is wider than just America.
ReverendD@chetwisniewski Sore spot of mine. I can buy a literal machine gun or silenced death dealer, but I'm not allowed to buy good body armor.
I can't buy a grenade, but I can buy a box of tank shells.
Preban automatics are very expensive but a felon can hire a person with a clean record to front a business that loans guns to people.
Amazing to me how goofy the laws actually are.
Wulfy—Speaker to the machinesYou can pry my glass prayer tablet from my cold dead hands!
MegatronicThronBanks@chetwisniewski Satire ... right?
HTPC NZ@chetwisniewski Sundarslop wants to out slop Satyaslop...
mc.fly@chetwisniewski and all of that to keep the operating system safe and the device trustworthy. For banks and companies, not for you. You are the threat actor.