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    2 months ago

    I’m going off of a article by TechRadar, but essentially: yes. This isn’t about breaking encryption as I initially thought, though that seems to have been the goal when the same law was proposed (and rightfully rejected) in 2022. Rather, the new revision is about making encryption utterly pointless through the virtue of scanning all messages on your device, as you suggested. At least that’s my read on the situation.










  • Repairability of smartphones is such a non-issue in reality, it amazes me that people are so crazy about it.

    I’m sorry, but I take issue with that statement. Here’s how many steps you need to take to remove a battery from popular phones:

    • Google Pixel 9: 39 steps. Involves applying heat to the battery. If that sentence doesn’t make you wince, then I don’t know what to tell you.
    • iPhone 16 Pro: 40 steps.
    • Huawei Honor 10: 20 steps.
    • Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge: 27 steps

    And I have to stress, this is the number of steps to just GET to the battery. I didn’t count the steps for battery replacement and reassembly. And all of these require some sort of specialty tools like having a gel pack to melt the glue inside the phone, or specialty screwdrivers for proprietary screws, etc. Not to mention the time and patience you need to expend.

    Contrast this to the Fairphone 4:

    No tools needed. 2 minutes. So no, I absolutely refuse to believe that phone repairability is a non-issue.