I would like to also suggest greywall[1] which i found yesterday. It sandboxes the filesystem, network, syscalls, dns. The network uses a transparent proxy to see which network requests were made. Supports linux and macos.
Organize and fight the policy. Do not take your frustration out on people and companies that just try to adjust to a law. Talk to your representatives. Create educational websites similar to fightchatcontrol.eu.
At least in the US check out the 2014 Princeton study on citizen preferences. Our Democracy is a sham, those mechanisms don’t actually have any power to change anything.
But this is actually a really good policy? It just says every OS shall have a UI to turn parental controls on or off, and an API to check if they're turned on. That's a good thing. It satisfies the reasons people wanted age verification, without actually doing age verification.
You are probably talking about chat control [1]. If it passes it will break encryption in the EU and yes... politicians, police and military are exempt. It is going to be a total disaster for everyone.
I would like to remind people of the 2016 Adups backdoor:
> According to Kryptowire, Adups engineers would have been able to collect data such as SMS messages, call logs, contact lists, geo-location data, IMSI and IMEI identifiers, and would have been able to forcibly install other apps or execute root commands on all devices.
You know... they could be just another malicious actor. I mean they appeal to emotions, github is not showing them as active in the community, pseudonym without any details in the profile. And by malicious actor I do not mean that they are trying to gain access, they could be just trolling Larhzu.
They are talking about the tone of the message. "it shouldn't be this hard" is not the proper way to report a bug at least not in a neutral way. It has the intention to make the maintainer feel bad and increase the likelihood of a change. And that was just in the title.
And yet, "it shouldn't be this hard" is an incredibly pertinent observation perhaps with the intention to make the maintainer understand that offloading tons of work on many other people has an impact.
Adding a backdoor to closed source software if you are the government is (almost) free so I do not think that the argument he is making about cost is a valid one.
[1] https://github.com/GreyhavenHQ/greywall
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