[–] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

I tell this to them all the time, but falls on deaf ears or they throw logic out the window. Something else I mention is the difference in logistics to pull off something of that scale in the US vs their home country. For example in France they only have one major city being Paris. Scheduling a meaningful protest of sorts would be trivial vs how it would be here in the US. They often forget this. Even communication across these distances without leaking anything to a government who has shown its colors is damn near impossible. This takes time. If they want to accelerate this then come over and show us how it's done, but I'm not gonna lose sleep when they get blasted just touching the fence out front and nothing happens.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    They include some interesting budgets in there to inflate it to be fair, but they also leave out the stuff that I have to pay for currently like health care costs. Tbh it would prob be a net equivalent. Even still I'm all for it as a higher earner in this country if it means it will help others, me, and those that come after. Not to mention they used the corporate costs not the costs when we aren't obsessed with profits

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    If we are going to name something and say it's a problem like there is something that exists elsewhere, but not giving information about what that solution entails is not constructive nor useful. Did graphene make the claim they have resolved the issue? Has anything else? If not why single it out? If it's one of the better options out there at least fighting towards the goal of being more secure and it does exactly that then why the hate?

    For as many people there are blindly slobbing all over grapheneos knob there are an equal amount of more blind haters.

    While there is no currently not a complete solution officially released and on by default from grapheneos it does however, include:

    • strict IOMMU isolation on the hardware level which restricts various radio firmwares into restricted memory spaces which prevents a rogue radio from reading and writing memory.
    • firmware sandboxing and hardening which is additional firmware and other memory safe mitigations to prevent buffer overflow attacks and some other attack vectors
    • per-app and system level toggles for radios
    • baseband isolation verification making use of the hardware attestation tooling that verifies device firmware so that you can't rest easy that it's not been tampered with or modified with including at boot.

    The issue is right now isn't graphene or any other competitor but a radio hardware issue to resolve further, which means no one has much better if at all. So while not complete or perfect it is however as far as I know one of the best attempts out there. For the US at least the FCC must explicitly approve whatever new hardware design they come up with using whatever hardware partner such as Motorola for radio fabrication. Currently Motorola Mobile (and not their evil sister company they split from who more likely does have patents) to my understanding does not have patents in this space which brings up another ma to or hurdle as the big dogs who design radios have anyone's balls in a vice grip that tries to enter it with lawsuit after lawsuit. Then we have the carriers own testing. Not saying this is impossible, but from the standpoint of graphene or any other security minded OS this is out of scope and just not realistic to ask of them. At least that was the case in the past. There is possible opportunity with the Motorola Mobile partnership, but I would not expect this in the first release.

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  • [–] 30 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    It can't be a number. These types will just raise prices so $25 is the new $15. Instead the gap needs to be a percentage including bonuses, stocks, health insurance coverage, ...and any other form of compensation. This would mean even business owners or s corp splitters, loan takers against investments, business worth, etc are all taxed fairly and evenly. It would also mean they can't artificial lower their income for tax reasons or for keeping bottom wages low. Additionally cost of living should be factored in such that the median or average value of goods is evaluated by a non biased third party that changes the undisclosed goods for calculating the CoL just so corporations cannot game this.

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