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Tom
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I’m a design thinker, product designer, learning enthusiast, a hopeful libertarian and a proud 🟥 Geyser Guardian.
Replying to Avatar 1GLENCo

While I was still using an Apple iPhone (until 2016), I too felt safe. The way that Apple and won the Apple–FBI encryption dispute (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%E2%80%93FBI_encryption_dispute) made me feel that way. That event and the way it played out built up a great sense of trust.

As bitcoiners say; Don't trust. Verify.

Unless I can see and verify the open-source code, I do not trust any of it, and neither should you.

I can foresee a future where that bitcoiner slogan will be expanded to be, "Don't trust. Verify. Compile. Reproduce", or something along those lines.

Just being able to see the source code that is supposedly running on your device is not enough. You need to be able to prove that it is. The best way to prove this would be to compile the source code yourself and load it to your device by way of a flashing process or something similar.

GrapheneOS' method of performing hardware-based attestation is brilliant; https://grapheneos.org/install/cli#hardware-based-attestation. I do trust GrapheneOS because I could do every step of Don't trust. Verify. Compile. Reproduce. I use GrapheneOS as the primary OS on my mobile phone and I recommend their product to anyone every chance I get.

I would love to agree and it sounds great. But in this approach I fail in “verify” due to my lack of skills for that, so I can either learn it (very unlikely) or to choose to trust to someone (could be you or other helpful guys here), or Tim Cook 😁

As a lay person in this, I would only have dumb questions like which phone brand to choose and which cloud or way of storage to use.

I wouldn’t know where to start.

GA (good afternoon)

I see it almost impossible to be technically detached from everything like that. Because there always is something. And for example inside EU there are cameras everywhere, now most services are KYC and then I have to balance to still have friends and family and maintain the schizophrenic fear of leaving track behind me.

Based on what I read throughout the years until now (important note), I feel quite safe with Apple and iCloud.

Replying to Avatar Smiffy

Sadly, they don’t think it’s wasted.

I used all my contacts and I see only 2 offers in Vexl. Someone selling honey for sats and some mafian buying bitcoin for half of my annual salary. So I’m not sure about Vexl yet.