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Vkeyboards/Screenboards already have alternatives. Physical keyboards, require funding.

No, you misunderstood me. I mean keyboard that when you type "a" it gives you "α" for example, and that for every letter.

I like the idea, it would be good if there was a keyboard(for phones specifacly, idk what could be on desktops) like that, but downside is screen readers still

Really interesting, I support idea. But does it do the job ? Like reducing data being harvested ? And what about screenreaders, they can't parse it, and if they could that means it's pointless as scraper evasion

Offtopic, but why do you write like that ? I mean the greek letters

And Apple was in prism since at least 2013. And if PRISM is outdated that only means "better" ones are in use. You sound to defend apple a lot.

My point is US hardware and companies are just as bad as Chinese ones. If it's officially mandated in China that show that China is just more transparent in surveliance than the US is.

I'd still use Xiaomi rather than Apple any day now if they are my only choices. I see Apple is shilled by lot's of people in privacy circles. Find it a bit sad.

Well, snowden files showed that big tech corpos need to provide access to gvt for all data, there is a graph when each big tech company provided it. Looking at that I conclude simillar thing for hardware is happening, it's not in law as in china, but it exists, we just need some new snowden type event to happen.

No one gets a prize from the FBI for doing that, and its costs money and time and there would be designers at every individual company who would be able to point directly to the back door.

Prize doesn't matter, if the state wants something from a company they wiil get it. It's just not made public.

No criminal case has ever shown someone using with Lineage or Graphine on an Adroid phone had their phone hacked by any government for the sole purpose of accessing data on an individual.

And if lineage is on xiaomi, or redmi then chinese state also has access or not ?

It’s kind of a moot point though - at this point commercially available spyware can get in at the software level.

I agree on that, imo threat modeling is most important and custom ROM have their own place and are not always needed. My point is that US either state or companies is not better than China ones, they just have better marketing in many ways and also there is lot's of propaganda aginst China or anyone US considers threat in some way. Which creates illusion that US or EU or the west is better than China.

But I never seen any good tinfoil on the hardware level, wouldn’t it need physical acceess?

I guess it depends. Intel ME doesn't need hardware access, it's a backdoor in the open.

Yeah my understanding that the proprietary firmware blobs in SoCs like Qualcomm etc do have them.

I'm assuming hardware backdoor, or backdoor in general rabbit hole goes really deep, but I'm not tech literate enough to process it, so I just assume everything is backdoored in some way

China is understood to have hardware level access to devices, even if you installed Lineage OS, meaning a rootkit is an SMS away even if you’re just in it for the hardware.

you are saying this as US corpos don't have access to devices

propo dabogda

the term is pointless

just make business accounts on mainstream social media. idk what your job is or if you can do it but in parallel you can also have business accounts on federated/private/ethical whatever you call it social media and with that you are also promoting other networks etc. if u have more people working with you use some federated chat xmpp for example instead of slack, stuff like that

it's not your fault, there is no "ethical" production/consumption in capitalism