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Poor kid. The irony of scarring this kid for life over completely normal behavior, in order to "protect him from abuse", is hopefully not lost on all of you.

Indeed, as is obvious to anyone productive. Taxes come from the productive and entrepreneurial, of which of the 10k that did leave are a big portion, and that's before actually comparing the incomes as opposed to the net worth.

"The UKs 3.06 million millionaires". LOL. Every geriatric with a centrally located apartment is a "millionaire" nowdays. But I'm sure the "tax justice" network doesn't actually understand the difference.

Even connectivitycheck.gstatic.com doesn't seem to be responding, making Androids think they don't have internet access.

2 years ago when backpacking in East Africa, I went from "there is no way I'm ever doing this" to taking nothing but those moto-taxis ("boda bodas") even for 40 minute inter-city rides with a 12KG backpack on my back. No helmets to speak of. Except maybe in Rwanda.

Part of the learning experience of such travel, is to see firsthand how the locals of these places perceive the risk. How they manage risk in general, and what is the "value of a human life" for them as compared to our western perceptions.

Is it 5G only or does LTE also work?

Perhaps it is no longer realistic to push such a huge changeset into linux anymore. Could this be solved with some hypervisor layer? That is, a hypervisor doing most of the work (in rust) and a small support layer upstreamed into the kernel? Of course, no actual virtualization is even necessary. Just some kind of ABI to the kernel running underneath.

This is an audit that is actually meant to get results

Isn't there some kind of statue of limitations in us tax law? That's stuff from 11 years ago.

Usually the esims you're referring to are data only (have no number). The sim registration requirements throughout the world are only about sims that have numbers attached.

Keyboard layouts should be legally required to be standard.

Whatsapp is known for banning accounts that use any kind of third party clients.

For Android users on iMessage (insane achievement!) obviously this isn't such a big issue, as they didn't have an account before, so the sanction of being banned is not so important.

I would never dare, however, to switch over my WhatsApp to a 3rd party client. Do you have something planned in this regard?

This is essentially a backpacker hostel. If that's how you look at it, the price looks quite alright to me.

The bit about the phone getting hot and crashing hints at a vulnerability being used.

I would consider an android app sandbox escape bug to be the lowest level of difficulty in mobile phone exploit chains.

I actually know nothing about ads. When you post a graphical ad, what do you actually post? Is there a file format? HTML? Video?

Is there a difference if you want your ad to appear inside apps rather than the web?

It's almost as if you could use something like that for voting...

China *also has a backdoor in to. FTFY

How many lived?

Sure. That'll make your precious iPhones more secure.

People here just love their locked bootloaders for some reason. But once you free yourself of this silliness, and root all your devices after unboxing, you'll be good for yet a few more years.

Of course it'll only keep being this easy temporarily. Here's a scene from 2026 for your imaginative pleasure:

Door: You need to scan your COVID25 vaccine QR code to open this door.

QR App: This app will only run on a HW attested device

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Shopkeeper: We only accept WhatsApp pay at this store.

Payment App: This app will only run on a HW attested device

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Your friend: We can only talk on this one messaging app that everybody uses.

Messaging app: This app will only run on a HW attested device. Oh, but we promise that this encrypted blob of executable code that you can't disable is here just to ensure the safety of your E2E encryption.

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Your custom ROM rooted Android 18 phone: Running a secure messaging app that was banned from the Play Store and has only like 2 other active users in the world.

The police: Papers please. Phone touches the scanner. Scanner beeps and turns red.

The law: You have violated the Digital Safety Act. Daily driving a non-licensed general purpose computer is illegal as this may endanger "our children".

The law: You have violated the Public Health and Safety Act. Daily driving a non-licensed general purpose computer is illegal as this may be used to circumvent your quarantine and vaccination control status checks.

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I can go on and on. I think you get the gist of it. Once we have HW attestation fully figured out, these laws will come. Cash will go away. Your agency will go away. Etc.

... And the punchline of the ghost story? The guys coding this stuff up? They're here with us reading this thread. Commenting about the virtues of locked bootloaders for your security.

I have no source handy, but I vaguely remember a GPS module present on board (I've likely seen that on some youtube teardown).

Good work!

There's an immediate application to this research, and that's answering the following question:

How does the implementation of their geo-fencing enforcement actually work? As you may know, you can't use starlink in India (or Iran etc.), even with a roaming plan.

Sure, it is possible that the satellites just "go off" whenever passing over these territories. However, from experience, there's a good chance that this isn't how it works. Perhaps there is some cooperation from the client side (at the software level). Perhaps the terminal being hard-to-root had made it "trusted enough" for this purpose in their security design.

If anyone is up to answering that question, I'm sure they'll get a bunch of karma on their HN post.

If you had a machine that prints money, you wouldn't sell it, would you? You would run it yourself.

It's the same case as with high-end electronic components since 10-15 years ago. No one can/could produce their own smartphone because the high end components are sold only to the largest incumbents. A medium-size startup "has the money" to buy these, even in volume. But qualcomm won't sell.

Same fate expects us here in general purpose computing. Hard to believe, but so was what happened to the electronics supply chain, at the time.

Why? In all, the original crime is equivalent to dumping a big piece of trash in the forest. Faking stuff for youtube is not a crime.

Obstructing an unnecessary investigation is a big deal only because people fear-mongered us to believe it's a big deal.

Guy should get a good slap and a 6 figure fine. Not get his life taken away.

Life exists as a way to release trapped energy that simpler processes weren't able to. Look at us, releasing fission ennergy trapped in heavy atoms by supernovae.

Not with a production phone, where the euicc (esim chip) only has the production 3gpp certificates installed.

A whole new dimension of almost Lovecraftian horrors opens up, and this half assed AI shit is about to permeate every aspect of technology. Imagine what'll happen to the few people that "fall through the cracks" of some unknowable edge-case in various random systems.

Toothless babies? Perhaps your likeness is "invisible" to self driving cars. No one can assure you otherwise.

I'm sure this has nothing to do with all the "defund the police" bullshit from a while ago.

I think we're around the point in time where it would be reasonable to establish a kind of "nature preserve" for people who collectively want to reject most of the post 2005 (or so) technology.

I want my car to have no ECU with an always on LTE backdoor

I want my streets to be free of facial recognition CCTV cameras

I want it to be normal to use physical cash for payments again

Mostly I only want tech that people use as a tool, rather than tech that uses people...

IIRC this "nature preserve" concept appeared in Brave New World.

And the rest of us plebs are to be stuck with the Samsung fab again. Great.