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When buying a smartphone, you have two real choices. You can opt for an iPhone, which runs iOS, or one of the many Android handsets available from the likes of Google, Samsung, Huawei, OnePlus and Sony.
F-Droid is a popular alternative app repository for Android, especially known for its main repository dedicated to free and open-source software. F-Droid is often recommended among security and privacy enthusiasts, but how does it stack up against Play Store in practice? This write-up will attempt to emphasize major security issues with F-Droid that you should consider. Before we start, a few things to keep in mind: The main goal of this write-up was to inform users so they can make responsible choices, not to trash someone else’s work.
Spying isn’t just the traditional method of watching someone with a camera. Governments, businesses & individuals could be spying on you via the internet, recording more information about you than you might expect. So what can you do about it? by Dr David Maddison
New Freedom Phone Isn’t What It Appears to Be This faux phone risks running into the same problems faced by the conservative social networks of the past. Ever since the rise of Donald Trump, conservative dissatisfaction with the technology industry has skyrocketed, with Trump and other Republican politicians frequently accusing “big tech” of bias and censorship towards conservatives. This tension existed even before Trump was suspended from Twitter following the riot at the U.S. Capitol building on January 6. This has manifested itself as the launch of a series of social networks, inclu...
An Android device without Google apps seems useless to those in that ecosystem, which is why many have been put off from buying new Huawei smartphones since US trade sanctions were imposed on the company. Huawei isn’t the only company to be affected by the ban: ZTE devices and other non-Google licensed implementations of Android also lack fundamental aspects of Google framework-backed applications. Huawei’s App Gallery has made strides in recent months, especially in the South African app developer space. Huawei also makes sideloading safer via its Petal Search functionality. However, be...