you know what, that’s fair. I admit I’ve heard so frequently (e.g. from the GOS community) that FF is less secure due to low maintenance, so I read the CVE statistics with that bias. I apologize.
in your view, how ought we to assess the attack surface of things like browsers? I’d love to move back to FF if it’s roughly as secure.
and will you be paying with NAND or disk today?
there’s always the high seas 🏴☠️
Apple devices and just trusting their word that it isn’t enabled? Why are you so bent on propping up Apple as a secure platform when it’s so glaringly obvious they can’t be trusted with your data?
because, while I use GrapheneOS, it’s a little hard to set up and lacks some creature comforts. Android devices outside of GOS/CalyxOS/Lineage are probably even less secure than iPhones.
but perhaps it’s better for me to encourage everyone to bite the bullet and switch to Pixels running GOS. it really isn’t that hard.
or maybe the amount of research I could be fucked to do on my phone on a Saturday to reply to some snide lemming topped out at not adding up subranges by hand.
I’m also skeptical of the RCE tallies, the more I look at them, given two JS sandbox escapes for FF were reported just days ago: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2025-73/
I don’t understand why so many people on this site take every opportunity to attack each other, rather than extending the principle of charity.
93 code execution vulns in Chrome since 2015, 135 in FF. 975 memory corruption + 267 overflow for Chrome in that same time, while 142 + 536 respectively for FF, so in raw terms Chrome is higher, but A) most of the Chrome vulns are classified as DoS rather than RCE, which indicates their mitigations seem to work, and B) Chrome has way more market share, hence way more people finding vulns. Ladybird has like, 2 CVEs, but that doesn’t mean it’s way more secure than FF/Chrome, it means nobody’s using it.
Opzero.Ru (the quickest exploit market I could find) will pay $200k for Firefox RCE but $500K for Chrome RCE. Lower prices either mean less demand (low browser market share) or high supply (more vulns already in their inventory.)
So no, I am not fear mongering. You may disagree with my conclusions but I’m trying to be objective.
it was created by @dessalines@lemmy.ml maybe they’re a Russian troll? I don’t think they are, but you could ask them :)
I’d trust an iPhone more than a random Samsung full of carrier bloatware, but I trust my Pixel running GrapheneOS more than either.
I have the USB-C port disabled for anything but charging, a duress pin, and reboots after 8 hours without a login. I’m honestly not sure if GrayKey could unlock it. I have memory tagging and a bunch of other hardening enabled, running only open-source apps I’ve verified the signatures of, running with minimal permissions. It would be hard to hack.
Yes, of course the NSA could almost certainly break it, but it would probably cost them time, money and vulns. If everyone uses GOS it will make their job very, very annoying :)
I’m trans and I very much care about not ending up in a concentration camp, please. (And yes I voted for Harris, but for the love of God can we take over the primaries next time, so the neoliberals are the ones holding their nose and voting?)
Lemmy is not really big enough yet to attract Russian trolls.
I disagree on dropping Chromium-based browsers. drop Chrome/Edge/etc. certainly, but Firefox is kept alive by a skeleton crew at this point, and almost certainly has more vulnerabilities than Chromium browsers. the sandboxing and process isolation, the defense in depth, it just isn’t there.
I use Vanadium, which has all telemetry disabled, JIT off by default, and blocks ads.
I don’t trust corporations. I trust math, and code, and systems design. I trust AES-256, even though the NSA picked it, because 20 years of cryptography research has revealed nothing close to a break. I trust SELinux, even though NSA invented it, because hundreds of kernel devs from around the world have audited it and touch that code regularly. I trust even proprietary systems which have been extensively independently audited and reverse engineered by security researchers, though I do trust them less.
wtf? didn’t Scrooge McDuck get drafted into the US Navy?
nope, neither of your sources says they can decrypt your content. in particular, from your first:
Data transmitted to Google and Apple includes metadata “detailing which app received a notification and when, as well as the phone and associated Apple or Google account to which that notification was intended to be delivered,” Wyden wrote. Sometimes data shared may include “unencrypted content, which could range from backend directives for the app to the actual text displayed to a user in an app notification,” Wyden warned.
as for your second, that’s for unencrypted iCloud backups. you have to turn Advanced Data Protection on: https://www.macworld.com/article/2606947/icloud-encryption-how-secure-is-your-data.html
note that iCloud Calendar, Contacts and Mail can’t be e2e encrypted, for fundamental reasons (notifications, discovery, SMTP.) but you don’t have to use those.
they went after a Jewish sexologist who studied and advocated for trans people, so the Nazis really killed two birds with one stone. :|
iPhones are highly regarded for security precisely because you don’t have to trust that Apple won’t hand over your data - it’s encrypted, if you set it up that way. enable Lockdown Mode, don’t use any services that aren’t E2EE. they can still try to GrayKey your phone, but it’s not Apple’s doing - GrayKey uses exploit chains which Apple legitimately does well to mitigate.
GrapheneOS is better for security than iPhones, but less noob-friendly. there are guides, though.
prepare for surveillance of any social groups you belong to, harassment at security checkpoints, detainment if you say anything they can take out of context as evidence of some crime or threat, and random acts of violence. have armed security at any event where large numbers of trans people attend. improve your opsec - switch to Signal, get an iPhone or GrapheneOS, migrate from Discord/Google/Instagram. start carrying a taser and take self-defense classes. put together a bug-out bag. stock up on HRT if you can. don’t break any laws, no matter how minor. if you are arrested or detained: comply with orders (under protest), don’t tell them your phone PIN, say nothing except “I exercise my right to remain silent and I want an attorney.”
it remains to be seen how bad this gets. if they start rounding people up in masse, we’ll all need to flee and request asylum.
good luck.
our existence is a threat to traditional gender roles and family structure. the real thing they fear is “social contagion” - that trans kids will see us living happy lives, and realize they can transition too. they’re afraid of gay people for similar reasons, but physical transition is a whole new level - they have a visceral reaction against it, like their innocent child has been irrevocably, physically corrupted.
they realized that using their existing levers of power (cutting off funding, changing curriculum, ID laws etc.) won’t do shit: we can DIY hormones, socialize on the internet and look out for each other. so now they become increasingly authoritarian, hence designating us as “domestic extremists” and calling for our forced institutionalization.
the Heritage foundation is handling us like the SCP foundation handles a Keter-class anomaly.
SNL updated it for the Executive Order era: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUDSeb2zHQ0
oh they’re totally a tankie, I just don’t think they were employed by the Russian government.