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I.C.E. have collaborated to clear the mempool of illegal transactions

How's does one clear the mempool? You either put the transactions in blocks or get 50+1% of the nodes to remove them from their mempools?

Basel III is changing the nature of gold reserves. Making rehypothecated gold worthless, so its (maybe) unwinding the paper gold market.

Well they used to be bitcoiners.... Now they are involved in brain chips. Makes me think Webb was right all along.

Scariest technology I can think of....

Tether is hiring a head of regulatory policy for BRAIN-CHIP IMPLANTABLE DEVICES.

Do you have experience in "first-in-human, investigational use, and clinical trials across multiple jurisdictions, Including

advising on risk assessments, biocompatibility and safety evaluations for Class 2a/2b and Class

3 active implantable medical devices"?

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https://tether.recruitee.com/o/head-of-regulatory-affairs

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The functionality provided by Google's new Android System SafetyCore app available through the Play Store is covered here:

https://security.googleblog.com/2024/10/5-new-protections-on-google-messages.html

Neither this app or the Google Messages app using it are part of #GrapheneOS and neither will be, but GrapheneOS users can choose to install and use both. Google Messages still works without the new app.

The app doesn't provide client-side scanning used to report things to Google or anyone else. It provides on-device machine learning models usable by applications to classify content as being spam, scams, malware, etc. This allows apps to check content locally without sharing it with a service and mark it with warnings for users.

It's unfortunate that it's not open source and released as part of the Android Open Source Project and the models also aren't open let alone open source. It won't be available to GrapheneOS users unless they go out of the way to install it.

We'd have no problem with having local neural network features for users, but they'd have to be open source. We wouldn't want anything saving state by default. It'd have to be open source to be included as a feature in GrapheneOS though, and none of it has been so it's not included.

Google Messages uses this new app to classify messages as spam, malware, nudity, etc. Nudity detection is an optional feature which blurs media detected as having nudity and makes accessing it require going through a dialog.

Apps have been able to ship local AI models to do classification forever. Most apps do it remotely by sharing content with their servers. Many apps have already have client or server side detection of spam, malware, scams, nudity, etc.

Classifying things like this is not the same as trying to detect illegal content and reporting it to a service. That would greatly violate people's privacy in multiple ways and false positives would still exist. It's not what this is and it's not usable for it.

GrapheneOS has all the standard hardware acceleration support for neural networks but we don't have anything using it. All of the features they've used it for in the Pixel OS are in closed source Google apps. A lot is Pixel exclusive. The features work if people install the apps.

The features are closed source for a reason.

Keep fighting the good fight. I can live without fake zoomed photos and god knows what code observing everything I do

Apple users have been hoodwinked into thinking Apple was defending their privacy. Do you think Apple will fight back? It may try to.

Thing is, Australia, Canada, UK, Brazil, etc are all enacting anti-encryption legislation. Thus is a fight apple won't be able to win.

Likely Apple will make an appearance of fighting it for show, then allow backdoor access. It's all closed source so no one will ever know.

Apple is NOT a privacy friendly company.

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Sorry mate. Love that you're bringing this up.

I bought a Boox palma 2 and rooted it to install a never-off VPN, and to be able to disect apps I didn't want.

At least the Chinese company doesn't pretend to be freedom tech.

I've brought this up since launch. No movement. Privacy is not a priority it seems.