#COLDCARD just got a firmware upgrade!

✅XOR from Seed Vault

✅Seed scanning from SeedQR

✅Unsorted multisig

✅Airgapped multisig coordinator with BBQr

✅Share any file from SD card via QR/BBQr

✅Optimizations and speed

✅libsecp256k1 bumped to latest 0.5.0

✅Improvements in signature grinding algo

✅Improved side-channel protection

# How To Remove Snapcraft

How to Remove Snapcraft From Ubuntu (And possibly other Debian based distros)

>Note: Linux Mint does not come with snap

1. List all installed snap packages:

```

snap list

```

2. Remove each package listed in step 1. Must be done individually. You cannot remove the "core" package.

```

sudo snap remove --purge package-name

```

3. Clear the snap cache:

```

sudo rm -rf /var/cache/snapd/

```

4. Uninstall snapd and the snap GUI tool

```

sudo apt autoremove --purge snapd gnome-software-plugin-snap

```

5. Remove the snap preferences from your home directory.

```

rm -fr ~/snap

```

6. Put the snapd package on hold, which prevents it from being installed or updated automatically.

```

sudo apt-mark hold snapd

```

Isn't open-source grand!! Microsoft, Apple and Google would never let you do something like this.

Join the channel and share.

Personal note:

Companies selling exploits for smartphones talking about #GrapheneOS in their internal documents and their limitation and failure in targeting the OS is only further evidence of the success of our recent mobile security and privacy work.

A multi-million dollar industry of companies exist just to discover and sell exploits for devices. Cellebrite is only one of many. Attacks by actors of such capabilities is what GrapheneOS aims to protect against, like we had done earlier this year, where we discovered vulnerabilities these companies took advantage of and disrupted their fun with improving and adding new security features. There is more to come.

We may not be as large as they are, but think about why they have to say our name and why they separated us from Android and iOS. What we do is significant and impactful. We don't ignore the competition or be deliberately vague or misleading about capabilities like these companies have been about us.

Digital forensics is such a valuable (and in my opinion, undervalued) cyber security skill but it is a shame these titans of the industry are all secretive and protective about their work. Some go as far as to mislead the public. Transparency and co-operation is the most valuable trait in the realm of digital security and companies like these shouldn't get a waiver.

I could have so much more to say including about how these companies' software are often designed too deliberately simple or complicated to make you depend on them and give them more money. Tools like Cellebrite are so easy to navigate and use that it feels like it's designed that way to not create forensics experts that can end up doing work themselves, and that other tools are deliberately complicated to faciliate to customer to buy their training.

If you want to hit companies like these where it hurts, then try learning DFIR, learn mobile forensics, and do it without selling out to them. Reduce what they can sell to you and break the gatekeeping the sector has.

Limits on cash and ban of anonymous crypto wallets

EU wide access to our medical records through authorities and industry without our consent

Just to give 2 recent examples (German MEPs)

Binance freezing my sats is just another reason to stop using this app.

It can be challenging to convince people to abandon tyranny technology

One of our readers wrote the following about why should he bother switching from Google products. We will try to convince him otherwise. He said:

“I keep thinking, to what extent does it matter that Google will know my interests to show me targeted ads? I don’t care, I actually prefer to see relevant ads if I have to see ads”

First of all, you don't have to see ads. If you use uBlock Origin browser extension or Brave Browser for example you won’t see them. Another option is a DNS block on Google. Even with a regular stock android any of these options work.

Second, you assume that the advertiser will charge you a fair price regardless. Our previous article on browser fingerprints, demonstrated from numerous academic sources that many retailers will abuse their knowledge about you to charge a higher price. For example Target charged a higher price on the mobile app when shoppers were physically closer to a store, because alternatives were much less convenient. Other examples include airlines knowing you will buy tickets because you checked the flight multiple times, and then jacking it up for you. You can find this article here: