And as soon as you get an update all their shit is turned back on, and re-enabled, and edge (🤮) is back on the taskbar… I hate microsoft so, so much.

I’m running a Pixel 9 with GrapheneOS as my daily driver as well, but I’m planning for future needs and/or the need to use a burner phone

Valid point, more specifically I’m talking about phones developed, manufactured, and sold by Chinese companies such as Huawei and Xiaomi.

I’m waiting for this one https://www.crowdsupply.com/diptyx/diptyx-e-reader

Taekwando no won

Well I’m assuming if it can bypass the lock screen somehow it can pull encryption keys, or just let the user gain full access to the phone and open the signal app directly.

There’s also FitoTrack which is an open source, local android app for fitness tracking

https://codeberg.org/jannis/FitoTrack

I don’t know about local send specifically, but KDE Connect well do that. And if you have an FTP client on your phone, then yes you can easily spin up an FTP server on your local network and transfer files that way

In that case, this seems pretty reasonable – disclaimer: I can’t personally attest to the effectiveness of this

https://github.com/Lissy93/personal-security-checklist

Inform them of their rights: https://www.ilrc.org/red-cards-tarjetas-rojas#item-4476

How about instead of restricting use of the software, adding in a clause that states "Use of this software is a formal acknowledgement and agreement by the user that race and gender are a social construct, gender identity and sexual orientation is a spectrum, humans can not be illegal,… " etc.

Thus use of the software is not restricted and is still open source, but forces groups, organizations, and people who disagree with the above to acknowledge something counter to their system of power.

Correct, the hard disk in the laptop can not be read. This is where having a good backup strategy is important. Similar to how if your hard disk dies you’re no longer able to access the material on the hard disk. For me, the downsides of encryption do not outweigh the benefits of having my data secure.

I enabled full disk encryption during OS installation, set up a secure passphrase, and then set up automated encrypted backups to my home server, which are automatically backed up to a remote server.

I gain peace of mind in knowing that if my laptop is stolen I’m only out the cost of the laptop, the data within is still safe and secure.

• harddrives can be corrupted, too. That’s where backups come in
• True, though one could use a security key or password manager to overcome that, or setup secure boot/TPM to where a password isn’t actually needed. If all else fails, again, backups.

What are the downsides to encryption? Though you may have negligible benefits, if there are also negligible downsides then the more secure option should be chosen.

Ahh gotcha, that makes sense, so like the difference between a self signed SSL certificate and something like LetsEncrypt.

Re 2: I was thinking in the scenario to allow auto discovery of your certificate, so someone who is emailing you for the first time could look up your public key automatically and use it to encrypt their email.

Also, great writeup and thank you!

Question 1: What’s the point of using Actalis? Can’t you generate your own certificate?

Question 2: Is there a way to get your email.server to automatically publish your public key?