Unidentified governments are surveilling smartphone users by tracking push notifications that move through Google's and Apple's servers, a US...
  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
    5·
    11 months ago

    What we need is more open hardware. Current phones are privacy issues because they are black boxes. Even if a libre device has bad security it always can be improved.

    I use Lineage os on my phone with only free apps.

    • plague-sapiens@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      More open source hardware would be epic, but imo this trend will take years to grow if it even will succeed. Most people just don’t care about their privacy at all and with hw and sw being open, there’s less money to be earned because of easier plagiarism.

      • steveman_ha@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        Thats weird, it almost feels like a misalignment between our general needs for computing resource development, and the incentive structures produced by using capitalist economic markets to distribute even basic goods for survival…