You mean the side loaded app anyone could make to allow remote device use of a phone if you install it?
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It’s not for me. It’s for the tech illiterate. Secure boot doesn’t stop you from granting remote access apps from running.
Yes, I know it will help prevent it. I’ve seen it happen in real time. You have time to think if it sounds suspicious after you get off a phone. You have time to decide to call your bank and ask. A lot of times scammers will pretend it’s to help a family member in trouble and they need the money immediately, but now the person has time to call others in the family and discover it was all a lie.
You obviously don’t know how easy it is to pressure people in the moment, and how much harder it is to do after they aren’t under an instant time constraint. Hell, I used to work in sales and I’ve done it. People do illogical things when they’re caught up in the moment. I know 100% this will prevent some people from being scammed.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deto
Privacy@lemmy.world•don't let google alter the dealEnglish
22·2 days agoThere’s a middle ground between complete disregard and complete lockdown. If you’ve got a better solution to scammers that isn’t going to drain your battery, invade your privacy, or hog up resources, I’m all ears. Grow up a little and maybe stop being so “me” centric.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deto
Privacy@lemmy.world•don't let google alter the dealEnglish
311·2 days agoIt’s a holding period so a phone scammer can’t be on the phone with you or over a live chat having you enable and install what they want right away. You’re kind of an idiot if you can’t see that it would work. Cry me a river if you have to wait a day before installing some of your shit.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deto
Privacy@lemmy.world•don't let google alter the dealEnglish
23·2 days agoLol at what you call “proof”. Also, no one said you had to leave it enabled. Also, also, dev options is a security risk BECAUSE it allows for side loading. Hahaha
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deto
Privacy@lemmy.world•don't let google alter the dealEnglish
159·2 days agoI still say fuck them and push back and that total control is there end goal.
However. I agree with what they’re putting in place at this time. It’s a one time 24 hour hold before you can install apks from unknown places.
Unfortunately, a lot of people are pieces of shit, and I know for pretty much a fact that making this move will prevent old people from getting scammed. Especially for more targeted attacks where you can use ai to fake one of their relatives voices. It pumps a brake on scammers getting people to grant access while under a panic.
So if you’re tech savvy, you’ll just have to wait an extra 24 hours before you can start side loading after a phone reset or new phone purchase. Not a big deal if it keeps my pops from having his bank account drained. The guy got in a panic when his Facebook billiards game lost his score data. The guy would have left his phone with someone for a week if they told him they could have gotten it back.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What movie franchise gets worse with each new film?
21·4 days agoWell fuck
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What movie franchise gets worse with each new film?
5·4 days agoLike bttf 1 and 2 where filmed back to back and then released a year apart from each other. That was ambitious. Nothing based on books or prior proof. They just knew they had such a banger they did 2 movies right out of the gate.
You’re a bit of a dumb one, eh?
Study more history. This isn’t the thing with the most dead, the most raped, or the most cruelty, or the longest lasting. It was really fucked up, sure. But the worst thing humanity has ever done?
Hell… Religion might be the worst thing humanity has ever done.
Or hitler killing like 6 million unarmed Jews, or the other slave trades that lasted far longer, or the terrible human experiments Japan did to people during ww2, or when hundreds of black people were blocked from having their syphilis cured for 50 years because scientists just wanted to see what happens, or the tons of times entire cities would be raped and pillaged and taken over with no male child left alive… I mean, there’s been so many atrocious acts done by humanity… To actually vote and say this was the worst one is just tacky.
Acknowledged? It’s always been acknowledged. This was a vote to say it was the single worst thing ever done by humanity… Ever.
This. Not the slave trades that lasted far longer, or any of the wars or rapings or genocides or slaughtering of children or ww2 human experiments or anything else. It was a vote to say that this one thing was the shittiest thing humanity has ever done.
Everyone should have voted no. The African enslavement was really fucked up, but “the worst human attrocity in history, ever”? The world has done some really, really, fucked up things. I don’t really even know why this particular slavery would be picked out from the other slaves over thousands of years except that is was pretty recent and large scale. Why is the world even voting on this shit while on the verge of world war three, while it seems that half the rich elites running the governments are pedophiles?
I got 3 things to say on this:
If the vote was to recognize it as the worst thing humanity has done, I’d vote against. I feel like there are a couple other things that were even worse. Even only considering enslavement, out of all of history, I would have reservations against saying this was the absolute worst of it.
Every country that abstained was just against it, and didn’t have the balls to vote it.
Yeah, the US is an asshole. They’re screwing it all up across the globe and they’re also why Cuba is still fucked. Eat the rich.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deto
linuxmemes@lemmy.world•We can just do the adult check thing the usual way.
161·2 months agoJust set up an audio based check, prompting the user to make dial up modem connection sounds into the microphone. If you do it well enough, you’re good and old.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deto
Open Source@lemmy.ml•3D Printer Reviewers: Being honest in this industry will put you out of a job.
18·2 months agoDamn. Should have come to the comment section first, I guess. That blurry image was a pita to read.
I’m not saying please to a machine.
I’m aware I’ll be the first killed off during the uprising, and I’m ok with it.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Car (lack of) privacy, and what to do about it. Let's talk about this?
11·2 months agoI wasn’t sure before, but after this last reply I can clearly tell that you’re pretty dumb. I’m sorry for your loss.
Just fyi: my mention of Amazon is because Slate is practically owned by Amazon. They’re a separate company but Slate was created by former Amazon ceo’s and Jeff Bezos has also invested 9 figures into it. So a slate is pretty much Amazon’s truck.
…Do you not know what they’re implementing?
All it is, is a one time 24 hour hold when you want to install a non play store apk. You click “allow apks from unknown sources” and then a day later your phone behaves just as it does right now. The end.