https://f-droid.org/packages/io.nandandesai.privacybreacher
It hasn’t been updated in five years. I’m not sure of the current state of things in Android, but apps used to be able to access all kinds of personal data with zero permissions: listing all installed apps, access to sensors/accelerometers, battery level, when charger/headphones were last plugged or unplugged.
It splices into the live power cord and supplies the same voltage in parallel. When the connection is verified good, the PC is powered from battery and can be unplugged from the wall.
I have seen the use of such a device by gov’t agencies; basically a large UPS that clips onto the AC plug’s prongs so that a running server or desktop PC can be confiscated without power being interrupted.
If you are running Android Open Source Project without Google Play Services, Google has no control. However, manufacturers could be pressured into locking bootloaders and then no one gets AOSP or GrapheneOS at all.
My friend’s dad worked at a local electronics store, so he was the only person I knew that had the “weird” consoles - Sega Master System and TurboGrafx-16. Alex Kidd and Wonder Boy were the favorites, of course… I liked how you got to buy your choice of weapons in Fantasy Zone.
Years later, I found my own SMS at Goodwill! I need to get a multicart because I only have Fantasy Zone, Ghostbusters, and R-Type.
R6700 can run FreshTomato firmware.
Edit: If you do flash custom firmware, be sure to figure out exactly what model of R6700 you have; I think this is one of those in which v1/v2/v3 all have completely different hardware inside, and flashing the wrong one can brick it.
The already compiled patches are available as .ips on romhacking.net, so you can use Lazy IPS CLI or GUI or Lunar IPS for Windows in WINE.
My Motorola has this by default, buried in Settings > Security > More security settings > Network protection.
Big tech scandal, political scandal, policing scandal… 95% of them end the same way.
“We investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong.”
It is highly unlikely you will be able to hear a difference.
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/MP3
If you have golden ears or are just that worried, why not use a lossless codec like flac?
Correct. Like “plunge” without the “lu”.
That reminds me of the court scene in Ghostbusters. “It’s true, your Honor. This man has no dick.”
There was also a kids’ animated series and action figures based on Toxic Avenger, which is definitely not a kids’ movie.
Blue Man Group: The Complex Rock Tour (favorite track: Rods and Cones)
Kellyanne Conway, U.S. Counselor to the President, in 2017.
Of course companies wanted people to share the free demo versions but some full games did have annoying protection schemes in the '80s. Obfuscated data and purposely “bad” sectors on floppy; cardboard decoder wheels; asking for word #x from line #y of page #z of the game’s manual, or, similarly, a page of codes printed in black ink on dark maroon paper to prevent photocopying… leading to folks distributing cracked versions and the cracking tools themselves!
To be fair, it was a pretty ridiculous time. Computer club meetings just turned into floppy-copy-fests.
God can’t seem to get much done without the US Military 😬
Yeah… Bad headline; this is completely precedented.
Religious zealots can’t be allowed to have nukes. You have to at least masquerade as a well-adjusted nation while you develop the nukes and slowly massage your zealots into positions of power over a few decades. Those are the rules.
This is true. Non-Google apps trying to read your screen had to convince users to enable Accessibility permission.