I doubt it. I think OP wanted upvotes and didn’t read carefully. Something like “tor user de-anonymized via retired app” would of been more accurate.

This is another great lesson that even the best privacy tools can’t protect a user from their own bad opsec.

It just sucks as a lot of Lemmy users will just read the title and assume its true and then tell their friends tor is no longer safe.

Yeah not sure why OP felt the need to use such a click-bait title.

Thinking isn’t your strong suit

I think your misinterpreting your own social anxieties as being made to feel like an “outcast”.

The fact of the matter is it’s just not normal to question why a store wants your phone number and I’m sure the cashier was taken aback by the whole situation.

Convenience, not privacy, is the norm. There is going to be tons and tons of awkward social interactions when you go against social norms. Accept it and be proud your advocating for your privacy.

Its a pretty low bar but Android is going to be more private then Windows. Google having privileged access to your phone is still terrible but Windows doesn’t really have any privacy protections by default. Android at least does things such as sandboxing its non privileged apps. It also provides a lot better hardware security for your data then most Windows devices would…outside of secure core pcs its pretty trash for hardware privacy in the Windows world.

No worries, I’ve done a ton of times!

Wrong guy. We agree. Try and read carefully.

Lol because there has never been an issue with randomized data. This also does nothing to alleviate the issue of privileged access. You are clueless.

I am not going through this wall of BS point by point but here is a fine example of how I know you have no clue what your talking about…

One place I strongly disagree with Graphene OS is the sandboxed Google services framework. They say having Google in a sandbox is more secure. It may be more secure, but it isn’t going to be as private as MicroG.

MicorG has privileged access to you phone, it literally has no privacy benefits over even standard Google Play. You are just choosing to trust MicroG with that level of access instead of Google.

Honestly just don’t use GOS if you don’t believe in its benefits or at least sack up and post this on their official forum.

There is a very relevant xkcd for this exact question.

Tldr dicewords are the better option. You can still add numbers, symbols, and capitalize if you really want even more entropy.

If you use dicewords it’s honestly pretty easy to remember. My master password for bitwarden is over 50 characters and it was a breeze to remember.

This is missing a critical piece of context. What is your threat model? Its impossible to know if what your doing even makes sense without that. What are you trying to protect and who are you trying to protect it from?

Nothing. The effort required to make a meaningful impact against this type of threat is way beyond my threat level.

Its better to just go through the settings yourself then rely on arkenfox. This just adds a middleman into the process of keeping your settings updated.

The app was bought out 9 months ago by some mystery company, isn’t actually open source, and you have not switched or made backups? I’m sorry, this is as much a user error as an issue with Raivo.

Even they would tell you that using sandboxed google play and the g cam app is a better experience if your looking for more then just snapping a photo on your phone though. As obnoxious as they can be on mastodon they are pretty honest with the limitations of their apps due to it not being as high of a priority.

Let be honest, If your threat model is truly to escape the NSA you probably shouldn’t be risking being on social media.

I think part of the reason people dismiss the idea that someone could have that big of a threat model is in most cases it would be unbelievably bad opsec to risk talking about your threat model on social media or something like the privacy guides forum.

I really appreciate privacy articles that talk about threat modeling as it seems like its the biggest part of privacy people miss.

Lol OK. Seems like its to much for you to consider you poorly communicated your point anyway.

I think if people read that comment and think they are being called dumb, that’s completely on them and probably a good time to look themselves in the mirror.

Nothing wrong with the design. Its literally just making thing easier at no cost to the user.