The authors overt nationalistic tone is really at odds with reality. There are no "good guys" when it came to nuclear weapons testing. The UK nuclear weapons tests in Australia were also a disaster for locals and poisoned large areas.
They can choose not to enforce it. The problem is that both Google and other phone manufacturers are making custom ROMS more difficult (restricting access to binaries needed to get the phone to work, not providing bootloader unlock etc). The other issue is if governments choose to go after them. Some police services are already trying to equate custom ROMS, and in particular GrapheneOS, with criminal drug-dealing gangs.
it doesn't matter, if GrapheneOS is going to be the only one to allow "side-loading", then the market for application installable without a store will disappear
Why? Panama was a dictatorship ruled by a drugs lord in the 1980s. It's now a democratic country with competitive elections and orderly rotations of power.
You know, you’re right and I totally missed the point.
If we want to assess the chances of a US intervention in Latin America producing good results, we should probably include the results of Operation Condor in our analysis.
I would not say that Venezuela is currently having orderly rotations of power. Since the 2015 parliamentary elections, we've seen at least one constitutional crisis and the most recent election results are disputed.
I do not particularly think it's a good idea for the US to invade in order to overthrow Maduro, but I don't want to pretend he's more ethical than he appears to be.
It probably is, but why should anybody in America care? All intervention will do is drive America's international reputation even further negative, and probably cause a new wave of refugees (and people opportunistically claiming to be refugees) into America.
Petitioning EU lawmakers would be better. American control of European data is already a bit issue at the moment in the face of US threats over Digital taxes and Microsoft being used to punish ICJ members.
EU (and the rest of Europe) are more concerned with controlling their own populations than keeping their data safe from the US. They are very much pro-big business dominance on the internet BECAUSE it makes it easier for them to regulate.
A lot of governments want to use American AI systems to run things to cut costs.
The EU is almost ready to sign off on Apple's DMA compliance as sufficient, despite sideloading being similarly restricted, and despite 15-20% commissions remaining. The DMA was never written to allow completely anonymous sideloading, or even commission-free sideloading, another law is needed for that.
> You can publish any android app you want, that doesn't give you the right to anonymously deploy those apps on everyone's personal tracking devices (phones).
This is about users freedom to install apps on the devices they own.
> non-google-certified android builds/installs
Those targets are rapidly disappearing. Alternative Android ROMs are dying one by one. Look at how few modern phones are officially supported by LineageOS. And many of those are Pixels which Google is no longer releasing binaries for (making ROM builders lives harder).
> Do you guys understand that people's lives are being ruined by malware?
Do you have figures to back that up? There are already multiple warnings when sideload apps.
> For about a decade now, on Windows, you are required to have an ID-verified code signing certificate so sign drivers for example.
I don't have figures to back that up, but I did read some figures on posts regarding this. my comment was based on real-life compromises observed.
Drivers and applications are not the same thing, certainly and no application is the same as other applications. browsers aren't the same as file managers. To users what matters is impact not category. A persons entire life can be destroyed because of one side-loaded app, much less so with a windows rootkit (because you don't have phone number/2fa app,etc.. on your windows box).
Users are free to buy devices that let them install any app. Google is responsible for the majority of users who don't care about installing apps from anonymous randos, but care much much more about their livelihoods and well being suffering at the hands of criminals!
> Those targets are rapidly disappearing. Alternative Android ROMs are dying one by one. Look at how few modern phones are officially supported by LineageOS. And many of those are Pixels which Google is no longer releasing binaries for (making ROM builders lives harder).
Ok, then let's talk about that, I'm all for sticking it to Google for all that b.s., but not for the topic at hand.
I have a lot of third party apps and none of them are by 'anonymous' developers. Presenting the situation as if everyone is exposed to 'anonymous' apps and Google is here to save you is misleading and fear‑mongering.
Then what's the problem here? If they're not anonymous, what do they lose that's so valuable that it is worth endangering the unsuspecting public over?
because the stock market liked his actions or the economic responses, as billionaires would make bank on any stock market increase, as would everyman's retirement account.
If only he could seek the financial wisdom of the former owner of his home and his long time neighbor, adviser to the rich and powerful, high school drop out Jeffrey Epstein.
Obviously we trusted the economic prowess of the author of “The Art of the Deal”, the convicted felon who bankrupted a casino and should have been barred from running for his actions on J6.
I’m glad we’re all in such tiny, bruised, felonious hands.
Shame we didn't get the actual author of the Art of the Deal, Tony Schwartz. Trump had it ghost written. I read it years ago and thought this guy is pretty cool, not realising it wasn't Trump.
In 1987 the real Trump was off in Moscow being groomed by the Russians.
Approximately all of those kinds of books are ghost-written. People with money who aren't otherwise authors only very rarely write their own books. It takes a lot of time, and business "leader" sorts especially are extremely comfortable delegating that and then putting (only) their name on it.
Trump's is unusual in that it's widely known not just that it was ghost written, but who did it. Often the real writer's name isn't known, and we can only guess at whether it was ghost written (again, the answer is almost always "yes").
