Since u/linusbottips hasn't shared it yet for some reason...
I really enjoyed it, I hope we get more of this stuff since the rest of the tech market is getting stale.
The @GrapheneOS Twitter account just confirmed that the just-announced Moto Signature 27 will support GrapheneOS.
https://www.androidauthority.com/motorola-signature-27-snapdragon-8-elite-extreme-gen-6-3713829/
https://nitter.xitter.cc/GrapheneOS/status/2102530770585669888#m
Hi all,
I installed Sandboxed Google Play and signed in with an anonymous-ish Google account (created from stock OS to bypass phone number requirement). But it seems to require age verification to download anything? Is there some way to bypass this other than e.g. tricking it with an online photo? I don't want to use Aurora if I can avoid it, since IIRC the Graphene team explicitly recommends against it, though I'll gladly be corrected on that
Thanks.
Photo1 is in Google Play, Photo2 is when you follow the link.
Hi all,
How protected is the Signal app when using the app lock feature (that locks it behind biometrics/PIN) in a situation where your phone is stolen while it's unlocked? My understanding is that the database isn't seperately encrypted like Molly's, so would it be possible for someone to extract your messages? If that's the case, is there anything more to do to secure it than using Molly?
Thanks.
Translated from the Austrian source:
>The report describes how Viola fled from the apartment where she was raped on a Tuesday morning at the end of May and went to a friend's house. At 8:30 a.m., her friend called the police emergency number. Upon their arrival, Viola told the police that she had been raped and that something had likely been slipped into her drink.
>Since the ambulance hadn't arrived after 45 minutes, Viola, accompanied by her friend, was taken to the Hospital of the Brothers of Mercy in Linz in a police car, according to police documents. Time was of the essence because there was a suspicion that she had been given a date rape drug, which is not detectable in the blood for long. However, swift action was repeatedly delayed in Viola's case.
>At the Hospital of the Brothers of Mercy in Linz, Viola was asked what they would find if they looked between her legs, moment.at further reports. It is "unbelievable" that a doctor would ask this question after an alleged sexual assault, according to the article by the organization an.doc.stelle, but unfortunately, it is not unusual. An.doc.stelle provides psychosocial support to people in crisis.
>Viola is registered as a woman in the civil registry and told the doctor that she is a trans woman. The organization criticizes the fact that, in treatments for trans people, the first focus is usually on their trans identity – regardless of the health issue.
>The gynecologist told her she could not be treated because she was "not a phenotypically female." She had to go to another hospital. Because the woman exhibited "male sex characteristics" during the examination in the gynecology department, "no further treatment was permitted under current legal regulations," a hospital spokesperson told the STANDARD upon inquiry. The hospital does not have a urology department.
>She was then wheeled into the conservatory, where she had to wait for 45 minutes, experiencing pain and panic attacks, and her condition worsened, according to the media report. No urine or blood samples were taken. She was then taken by ambulance to the Elisabethinen Hospital. The hospital stated that it would not provide details about the procedures at the Brothers of Mercy Hospital in Linz or about specific decisions, as the victim had filed a criminal complaint.
>Second Hospital Transfers Her
>When Viola arrived at the Elisabethinen Hospital, she was told that the hospital was not responsible for her case. By this time, it was reportedly 10:40 a.m. In a statement, the hospital explained that after an initial assessment, Viola was transferred from the gynecological to the urological outpatient clinic, but then, "due to the described incident, she was transferred to the violence unit at the Kepler University Hospital."
>On the way to the third hospital, Viola, who suffers from epilepsy, suffered a seizure, the report continues. At the Kepler University Hospital, she was taken to the violence unit, where she was initially placed in a "storage room," as moment.at quotes from the police report. There, she had to wait for an hour. She suffered from pain and cramps but received no medication.
>The police "exerted pressure" to finally provide assistance, moment.at quotes from the police report. At 11:50 a.m., she received treatment from the urology department, the article continues. No date rape drugs were detected at that time. However, the team documented scratch marks on her hip and injuries in the anal area.
Original text:
>In dem Bericht wird beschrieben, wie Viola an einem Dienstagmorgen Ende Mai aus der Wohnung, in der sie vergewaltigt wurde, zu einer Freundin geflohen sei. Um 8.30 Uhr habe die Freundin den Polizeinotruf gewählt. Bei deren Eintreffen habe Viola der Polizei gesagt, dass sie vergewaltigt und ihr vermutlich etwas ins Getränk gemischt wurde.
>Da der gerufene Rettungswagen nach 45 Minuten noch nicht da gewesen sei, sei Viola, von ihrer Freundin begleitet, im Polizeiauto in das Krankenhaus Barmherzige Brüder in Linz gebracht worden, wird aus Polizeiunterlagen zitiert. Es war Eile geboten, weil der Verdacht im Raum stand, dass k.o.-Tropfen verabreicht wurden, die im Blut nicht lange nachweisbar sind. Doch schnell gehandelt wurde in Violas Fall dann noch öfter nicht.
>Im Krankenhaus der Barmherzigen Brüder Linz habe man Viola gefragt, was man vorfinde, wenn man zwischen ihre Beine schaue, berichtet moment.at weiter. Es sei "unfassbar", dass eine Ärztin diese Frage nach einer mutmaßlichen sexuellen Gewalttat stellt, heißt es in dem Artikel von dem Verein an.doc.stelle, ungewöhnlich sei es aber leider nicht. An.doc-Stelle unterstützt Menschen in Krisen psychosozial.
>Viola ist im Personenstandsregister als Frau eingetragen und habe gegenüber der Ärztin angegeben, dass sie eine trans Frau sei. Bei Behandlungen von trans Personen stehe meist als Erstes im Fokus, dass sie trans sein – egal, um welches gesundheitliche Thema es gehe, kritisiert der Verein.
>Man könne sie nicht behandeln, da sie "keine phänotypische Frau" sei, habe ihr die Gynäkologin gesagt. Sie müsse in ein anderes Krankenhaus. Da die Frau bei der Untersuchung auf der Gynäkologie "männliche Geschlechtsmerkmale aufwies", habe "nach den geltenden gesetzlichen Regelungen keine weitere Behandlung mehr stattfinden" dürfen, teilte eine Pressesprecherin der Klinik dem STANDARD dazu auf Nachfrage mit. Eine Abteilung für Urologie gebe es an dem Krankenhaus aber nicht.
>Daraufhin habe man sie in den Wintergarten geschoben und dort habe sie 45 Minuten warten müssen, Schmerzen und Panikattacken gehabt, ihr Zustand habe sich verschlechtert, heißt es weiter im Medienbericht. Urin und Blut seien ihr nicht abgenommen worden. Dann sei sie mit der Rettung ins Ordensklinikum Elisabethinen gebracht worden. Zu Details bei den Abläufen bei den Barmherzigen Brüdern Linz oder zu einzelnen Entscheidungen mache man keine Angaben, da von der Betroffenen Strafanzeige eingebracht wurde, teilte das Spital mit.
>Zweites Spital schickt sie weiter
>Als Viola bei den Elisabethinen ankommt, habe es dann dort geheißen, das Krankenhaus sei nicht zuständig. Inzwischen soll es 10.40 Uhr gewesen sein. In einer Stellungnahme teilte die Klinik mit, dass man Viola "nach einer ersten Abklärung von der gynäkologischen an die urologische Ambulanz" weitergeleitet habe, dann aber "aufgrund der geschilderten Tat ein Transport in die Gewaltambulanz des Kepler Universitätsklinikums veranlasst" worden sei.
>Auf dem Weg zum dritten Spital habe Viola, die an Epilepsie leide, einen Krampfanfall erlitten, wird weiter berichtet. Im Kepler Universitätsklinikum sei sie auf die Gewaltambulanz gekommen, wo sie vorerst in einen "Abstellraum" untergebracht gebracht worden sei, wie moment.at aus dem Polizeibericht zitiert. Dort hab sie eine Stunde warten müssen. Sie habe unter Schmerzen und Krämpfen gelitten, aber keine Medikamente dagegen bekommen.
>Von Polizeiseite sei "Druck ausgeübt" worden, "sodass es endlich zu einer Hilfeleistung kommt", zitiert moment.at den Polizeibericht. Um 11.50 sei dann eine Behandlung durch die Urologie erfolgt, heißt es weiter im Artikel. K.o.-Tropfen seien dann keine (mehr?) nachgewiesen worden. Das Team habe aber Kratzspuren im Hüftbereich und Verletzungen im Analbereich dokumentiert.
E: formatting
They’re part of a protest group illustrating the absurdity of Kansas’ anti-trans bathroom ban.
The manager of the Long Branch Lagoon Water Park in Dodge City, Kansas reportedly screamed and rushed children out of the women’s restroom and changing area on August 8 after three self-described “bearded, burly” transgender men wearing yellow “Compliance Crew” t-shirts followed state law and used the municipal facilities matching the sex listed on their birth certificates, trans journalist S. Baum reported.
The men neither removed their clothes nor made any crass comments while in the facility, but they had to provide police “uncomfortable descriptions” about their bodies and genitals in order to avoid arrest. The three are part of an activist group that has been entering girls’ and women’s facilities elsewhere in the state (as required by law) to protest the absurdity of Kansas’ transphobic bathroom ban. The police in this incident had neither heard of the ban’s passage last February nor their expectation to enforce it.
“Supporters of S.B. 244, including Attorney General Kris Kobach and Senate Majority Leader Ty Masterson, billed it as a way to keep men out of women’s spaces; it clearly requires some men to enter women’s spaces,” said the activist group, KS SB244 Compliance Crew, in a press release.
“Segregating people by suspected genitalia does nothing to improve public safety; it does quite the opposite by opening Kansans up to sexual harassment and discrimination. At no point should anyone be asking anyone else what genitals they have in public,” the release added.
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly (D) vetoed S.B. 244 last February, but Republicans overrode her veto days later. The law invalidates existing state-issued driver’s licenses and birth certificates with gender markers that do not match a person’s sex assigned at birth, and bans future gender marker changes on those documents.
The law allows penalties up to $125,000 in taxpayer funds against local government entities that fail to enforce the law’s transphobic bathroom ban provision. The law also allows individuals to personally sue violators for up to $1,000 in “damages” and threatens violators with up to six months in jail. The ACLU of Kansas immediately sued over the law; the evidentiary court hearing for a temporary injunction against the law is scheduled for September 29.
“Trans feminine people face the brunt of the KS Legislature’s demonization while trans masculine folks are infantilized and characterized as non-threatening. We believe it’s important to use that relative advantage to work for change,” the trans protest group’s website states.
Charles, one of the protestors, told Baum, “As trans men and transmasculine people, we have a really unique opportunity to demonstrate, with action, visually, just exactly how wrong that [law’s passage] was. That the law does not actually do what it was advertised to do,” which is make women and girls feel safe.
The protest group has entered girls and women’s facilities in a zoo, library, museum, and other parks located in the municipalities of Emporia, Great Bend, Garden City, and Dodge City. While one person complained at the zoo, the other occasions have passed without incident, except for some disapproving looks.
Theodore, another protestor, said that when news reports of their protest spread online, commenters called them pedophiles, threatened rape and violence against them, and spewed anti-trans conspiracies and hatred.
Ray Vieux, another one of the protestors, told Baum that he regularly blends in with other men and has continued to use the men’s room numerous times since the law’s passage. “These laws force me to choose between safety and obeying the law,” he said.
“S.B. 244 endangers all Kansans by allowing whomever-is-in-the-bathroom-at-the-time to file criminal and/or civil charges based on rash judgements of appearance,” the protest group wrote on its website. “Protecting women and children matters! Pointing fingers at trans people does nothing to prevent or solve the serious issue of assault.”
Hi all,
I'm updating from 7.9.1 to 7.10.1 (couldn't download 7.10 because I didn't have a stable enough internet connection until now) and I'm only getting ~44KB/s when downloading via the Tails Upgrader, even though if I run a speedtest in Tor Browser I'm getting many times that.
Is anyone else having this issue? I've already tried rebooting, using different Tor Nodes, with and without Bridges, same issue. Downloading the full .IMG from Tails.net is even slower, but downloads from other sites work fine.
Hi all,
On my 256GB Sandisk the Tails system partition is 8.6GB (2.6GB used), but on an 8GB drive Tails only creates a 4.3GB partition (2.6GB used). Does anyone know what the technical reason for this is? If Tails only needs 4.3GB for the OS+extra space (presumably for updates?), why does that double on a larger drive?
(Both drives were on 7.10 with Persistent Storage enabled)
New shutdown procedure
Tails now uses the standard shutdown procedure from GNOME. The standard shutdown procedure is a bit slower, but better prevents from data loss.
Now the 'Power Off' confirmation dialog informs you if an application needs to be closed or an open document needs to be saved before shutting down. Even without confirming or saving the open documents, Tails will shut down after 60 seconds. You can still use the faster emergency shutdown as before.
(this also fixes #21373)
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Celluloid video player
GNOME Videos is replaced with Celluloid (see #7929 and !2731). For added security, Celluloid cannot access the network. You can either:
Note: Celluloid doesn't work on some computers from 2011 or earlier. You can use VLC instead, installed as Additional Software.
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- Updated Tor Browser to 15.0.19.
- Updated some firmware packages. This improves support for newer hardware.
Hi all,
Does anyone know where the ProtonMail Flatpak stores the login token? I'm running off a Tails USB (Linux distro that resets most system folders on reboot except ones you explictly tell it not to) and it seems that the token isn't saved in ~/.var/app or ~/.local/share/flatpak where other Flatpak apps store there data, so I keep getting logged out.
Thanks.
Hi all,
I usually follow what's happening with Tails via their GitLab, but as of about a week ago it's unavailable. Trying to load it leads to a "Retry later" text. Is it visible for anyone here? If not, is it known why there would be an outage like this?
Chat Control 1.0 just passed the EU Parliament (276 in favour, 314 against, 17 abstained), which allows mass scanning of private communications without a warrant. For now encrypted messages are not scanned.
From the article:
>What is coming back: US tech companies are once again allowed to scan private messages without a warrant or prior suspicion. This affects direct messages on platforms like Instagram, Discord, Snapchat, Skype, and Xbox, as well as emails via Google’s Gmail and Apple’s iCloud.
>What remains unchanged: Public social media posts and files hosted in cloud storage could already be scanned without this law. Furthermore, private messages can always be reported by users, or monitored by authorities using targeted, court-ordered wiretapping.
>What is still NOT being scanned: End-to-end encrypted chats, such as those on WhatsApp, have always been exempt from these scans. Additionally, European providers of messaging and email services have never implemented chat control measures.
List of votes: https://howtheyvote.eu/votes/195775
Note that Chat Control 2.0 negotiations (which does allow scanning end-to-end encrypted messages, are still ongoing. You can follow what's happening at https://fightchatcontrol.eu and https://www.patrick-breyer.de/beitraege/chatkontrolle/#timeline (German)
Hi all,
I'm having issues where my phone doesn't receive Signal messages until about five minutes after they're sent, same is true for calls (they never ring, I only receive the 'Missed call' notification 5mins later). It's been happening for several weeks, yet it doesn't happen on my partner's phone. We have the same phone, both have 'low power mode' off, 'background app refresh' enabled and it happens to me on both mobile data and WiFi. Notifications for other apps arrive fine.
Signal 8.18.1
iPhone SE (1st Gen, 2016)
iOS 15.8.8 (latest version my phone runs, the phone is exclusively used for Signal anyway)
I've tried reinstalling, re-registering push notifications in Signal and completely wiping the phone. Is there some other issue that could be causing this?
TIA
Hi all,
I'm trying to create a bootable backup of my partner's laptop, an Asus Zenbook 14 UX3405 running Fedora Silverblue, so that if the laptop breaks they can just plug it in to another computer and have everything be how they're used to.
I created the backup running dd if=/dev/nvme0n1 of=/dev/sda status=progress conv=noerror,sync bs=64K which seems to have copied over the EFI and /boot partitions as well as the main LUKS partition. Booting off of the external drive via the Zenbook works fine, but when booting off of my own laptop (MacBook Air 2012) on ostree0 it kernel panics with Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000087 and on ostree1 it enters emergency mode and gets stuck.
Does anyone know what's causing this and how I can fix it? I'd hoped to be able to boot that drive off of any computer in an emergency if the Zenbook were to break.
Thanks!
Hi all,
I'm trying to create a bootable backup of my partner's laptop, an Asus Zenbook 14 UX3405 running Fedora Silverblue, so that if the laptop breaks they can just plug it in to another computer and have everything be how they're used to.
I created the backup running dd if=/dev/nvme0n1 of=/dev/sda status=progress conv=noerror,sync bs=64K which seems to have copied over the EFI and /boot partitions as well as the main LUKS partition. Booting off of the external drive via the Zenbook works fine, but when booting off of my own laptop (MacBook Air 2012) on ostree0 it kernel panics with Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000087 and on ostree1 it enters emergency mode and gets stuck.
Does anyone know what's causing this and how I can fix it? I'd hoped to be able to boot that drive off of any computer in an emergency if the Zenbook were to break.
Thanks!
Hi all,
I'm trying to create a bootable backup of my partner's laptop, an Asus Zenbook 14 UX3405 running Fedora Silverblue, so that if the laptop breaks they can just plug it in to another computer and have everything be how they're used to.
I created the backup running dd if=/dev/nvme0n1 of=/dev/sda status=progress conv=noerror,sync bs=64K which seems to have copied over the EFI and /boot partitions as well as the main LUKS partition. Booting off of the external drive via the Zenbook works fine, but when booting off of my own laptop (MacBook Air 2012) on ostree0 it kernel panics with Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000087 and on ostree1 it enters emergency mode and gets stuck.
Does anyone know what's causing this and how I can fix it? I'd hoped to be able to boot that drive off of any computer in an emergency if the Zenbook were to break.
Thanks!
Changes and updates
- Update Tor Browser to 15.0.16
- Update some firmware packages. This improves support for newer hardware: graphics, Wi-Fi, and so on.
Fixed problems
- Fix a fingerprinting issue in the Unsafe Browser.
- Stop notifying about outdated Secure Boot certificates in rare cases where the certificates are already up to date.
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There is also now a feature flag to enable experimental Flatpak support. See the design document, this merge request, and the changelog for more info.
This is not officially endorsed by the Tails team since it uses closed-source drivers, which can contain malicious or insecure code, and can't be reviewed by third-party developers. Only use this if you can't acquire one of the Tails recommended WiFi dongles, and your threat model allows for running closed-source drivers.
This works for (almost) all MacBooks that use Broadcom WiFi cards. To find out if your Mac uses Broadcom WiFi hardware, run lspci | grep -i network
This requires Admin password to be enabled, and on some models you need to disable Mac Address randomisation. Read about the security implications of disabling Mac Anonymisation and enabling Admin Password.
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Download the Broadcom-STA-DKMS driver, rename it to '.broadcom-wifi.deb' (with the period at the start) and save it to /Persistent
Install DKMS and the required Linux Header files, and add them to Additional Software (click "Install Every Time" on the notification that appears):
sudo apt install dkms linux-headers-6.12.88+deb13-amd64 linux-headers-6.12.88+deb13-common
Open Text Editor and create a file with the following:
sudo dpkg -i /home/amnesia/Persistent/.broadcom-wifi.deb
Save it to /Persistent as 'Wifi.sh'
Make it executable
chmod +x /home/amnesia/Persistent/Wifi.sh
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Now on every boot, wait until Additional Software has finished installing, then run Wifi.sh (right click, "Run as Program"). The WiFi driver will be installed for that session. It'll throw an error that it can't update the initramfs, but that doesn't matter here.