Yeah but phones have had a problem where using the main chip for encryption would basically use all the battery. For a while Apple was the only one who didn’t have this issue because they included dedicated chips to handle the encryption. So they were even able to jump in to the “whole phone encryption” by default. While android phones had to leave it as a checkbox in settings that would eat your battery.

I just don’t remember if google ever got around to addressing the issue.

Last I heard it’s the only phone with a dedicated encryption chip, so encryption of everything doesn’t burn your battery. Is this still true?

TLDR: Apple has a slight edge over android, and this edge is continuously narrowing and will probably be surpassed over time. For the purposes of my original comment, the security lead was definitely wider in my past memory (2015 ish). https://www.33rdsquare.com/android-security-vs-ios/

Edit: After some follow up research, Apple may/may not have had hardware based AES implemented, definitely does have Secure Enclave chip, allowing them to start full disk encryption in 2014, android didn’t become standard until 2018.

And still, these security chips are only available for high end android devices while apple devices all have them by default.

A sociopath libertarian idiot.

The L part is the kind of person I want in charge of my encrypted data. Telling the government to fuck off because he legitimately can’t comprehend how government is a good thing.

Signal will now allow your old messages being exported to another device. Previously needed to do a full transfer to another device.

Recommending to friends and family means Signal. With a phone number they can start using the gold standard for encryption from the get go.

How is this related to privacy? Seems like he’s pretty public about his views.

Simplex is a much closer alternative

Disabling JavaScript in and of itself is not something I understand as a viable way to interact with the internet.

Almost all the Tor de-anonymization attacks rely on JavaScript. Not being pwned is a standard of living many users are willing to live under. Plenty of actual text and images are still viewable over tor this way. And if you can’t access content on one site this way then that site wasn’t respecting your privacy.

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