China has a trust rating system ...
Google is developing "DragonFly", a search engine which will show only what China's Marxist masters want the peons to see.
Apple couldn't wait.
When you install iOS 12 you will entering the Marxist twilight zone, where Apple will be "scoring" YOU based on your phone and email content.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/730302...-calls-emails/
Uh, huh. Prevent "fraud" you say, and based "only" on the approximate number of calls and emails you send and receive? So, you won't be tracking from whom and too whom my calls and emails are going? You won't be surprised if I don't believe you. And since you admit you are tracking my email and phone calls I must assume that you are tracking my messages too, and my comments on various web sites I visit.
And just to let you know that I completely understand you, Comrade, I won't be allowing the iOS 12 update onto my phone.
What smartphone to use next? Not Android, Google controls that and they are just as Marxist as Apple. If I go to https://www.plasma-mobile.org and look at the offerings for open source OS's for smartphones one fact stands out: you have an OS on your smartphone BUT your smartphone can't make phone calls with it. As PostMarketOS write:
What will I do? When my iPhone6+ dies, or Apple shuts it down, I'm going back to a flip phone, one without an Internet connection.
Apple couldn't wait.
When you install iOS 12 you will entering the Marxist twilight zone, where Apple will be "scoring" YOU based on your phone and email content.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/730302...-calls-emails/
To help identify and prevent fraud, information about how you use your device, including the approximate number of phone calls or emails you send and receive, will be used to compute a device trust score when you attempt a purchase," Apple explained.
And just to let you know that I completely understand you, Comrade, I won't be allowing the iOS 12 update onto my phone.
What smartphone to use next? Not Android, Google controls that and they are just as Marxist as Apple. If I go to https://www.plasma-mobile.org and look at the offerings for open source OS's for smartphones one fact stands out: you have an OS on your smartphone BUT your smartphone can't make phone calls with it. As PostMarketOS write:
Mobile phones have dedicated chips for the cellular modem and wifi functionality. These chips only run with firmware files, which are little proprietary operating systems, that run alongside of your regular OS (such as Android or postmarketOS). In most cases they even have full access to the device's RAM, GPS and/or microphone.
As with all proprietary software, we can not look at the source code to look for security bugs and backdoors, and we can not update it when such security bugs become public. We are at the mercy of the device manufacturers to get updates, and they refuse to do so after the support of the device runs out.
Nowadays, practically every phone that is a few years old has such an issue - no matter which OS or ROM you install. Exploits are available in public, so everyone with enough IT knowledge (or money to get IT experts) can turn these older phones into surveillance devices.
We are well aware of the situation and exploring our options. On a side note, we are also interested in using the mainline kernel (instead of some outdated Android fork), so we can at least have a safer userspace.
As with all proprietary software, we can not look at the source code to look for security bugs and backdoors, and we can not update it when such security bugs become public. We are at the mercy of the device manufacturers to get updates, and they refuse to do so after the support of the device runs out.
Nowadays, practically every phone that is a few years old has such an issue - no matter which OS or ROM you install. Exploits are available in public, so everyone with enough IT knowledge (or money to get IT experts) can turn these older phones into surveillance devices.
We are well aware of the situation and exploring our options. On a side note, we are also interested in using the mainline kernel (instead of some outdated Android fork), so we can at least have a safer userspace.
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