This is too short and the justification provided is flimsy at best.
I predict that normal people will began to get comfortable with ignoring SSL errors, even more than they already are. Perhaps we will see the proliferation of https-stripping proxies too.
> We know exactly how to do these things digitally. Many European countries have had stored-value payment schemes in the 90s. Japan still does today.
But how do they prevent people double spending the same amount? Say someone has 100$ and boards on a plane. During the trip, this person buys a bag of potato chips sold for 90$. At the same time, his bank account is automatically charged 90$ for a bill.
With credit cards, handling this case is baked into the system. As far as I am aware, direct debt has no equivalent.
I'll just repost what I posted in the last thread:
> There is no on-device scanning without compromising privacy. Scanning that can detect child abuse can also detect human rights activists, investigative journalists, and so on. I imagine this technology can be easily used by the government to identify journalists by scanning for material related to their investigation.
> On-device scanning is a fabrication that Apple foolishly introduced to the mainstream, and one that rabid politicians bit into and refuse to let go.
And I'll add this: Citizens lose of their right to privacy is the death of their democracy.
This is my plan as well. If we loose the ability to run GrapheneOS, I'll get an iphone and treat it as a locked down home router, and use a linux phone with open source apps for my calls/messaging.
I will also do everything in my power to halt support for Android in favor of web apps. No sense duplicating work for two separate platforms if one is just a crappy clone of another.
This is the right answer. I'm willing to stick my head out and assert that languages with a "minimal" standard library are defective by design. The argument of APIs being stuck is mood with approaches like Rust's epocs or "strict mode".
Standard libraries should include everything needed to interact with modern systems. This means HTTP parsing, HTTP requests, and JSON parsing. Some laguages are excellent (like python), while some are half way there (like go), and some are just broken (Rust).
External libraries are for niche or specialized functionality. External libraries are not for functionality that is used by most modern software. To put your head in the ground and insist otherwise is madness and will lead to ridiculous outcomes like this.
There is no on-device scanning without compromising privacy. Scanning that can detect child abuse can also detect human rights activists, investigative journalists, and so on. I imagine this technology can be easily used by the government to identify journalists by scanning for material related to their investigation.
On-device scanning is a fabrication that Apple foolishly introduced to the mainstream, and one that rabid politicians bit into and refuse to let go.
What was allowed to happen in Palestine has set a new standard for the value of human life and morals. It was not only set for the Palestinians but also for the other side and everyone else.
Perhaps this is no consolation to the victims, but the pendulum will continue to swing both ways as it always has. These monsters and their offspring will reap what they sowed. Humanity too will reap this reward.
This was always going to be the logical conclusion to US hostile policy regarding the the proliferation of IC fabrication. The US, not cost, was the primary factor that discouraged many countries from pursuing their own IC fabrication capabilities. Had they not been so hostile, many countries would have had enough capacity to cover for the US until it rebooted its own industry.
This is also the same trap that China is barrelling into right now and they will absolutely find themselves in the same position eventually.
This deplorable company has just condemned humanity's right to open computing. They sold themselves as open, smothered out all other open competitors, and then once they had complete dominance over the open phone market did this.
Even if Google backtracks now. Governments will latch on to this idea just like they have with client side content scanning. This will never go away. Thank you google you despicable pieces of shit.
Agreed that it's a se-inflicted problem. Like others have stated, restore the network-access permission and have it disabled by default with a big warning shown when the user attempts to enable it (remove the warning if the app has been verified by google).
This has nothing to do with malware. The sleazy fucks at google just want absolute control over our devices. It's as simple as that.
Yep, at this point aiding google is simply inexcusable. Taking into account the scale of the harm to humanity, what is being done by these google developers is truly evil. These developers cannot feign ignorance. Not with this level of harm.
I wonder if the individuals implementing this will ever be held accountable for their crimes. I would certainly be in support for it.
I predict that normal people will began to get comfortable with ignoring SSL errors, even more than they already are. Perhaps we will see the proliferation of https-stripping proxies too.