Screen-grabbed from Facebook:

A teacher had her students turn their phone volume up and create a collective record of the notifications they received in a single class period.
https://twitter.com/katierosman/status/1103109217626415105

Android co-founder Rich Miner draws attention to the disturbing influence on young people who do not know a world without constant interruptions.

Rich Miner, known as a co-inventor of Android, is concerned about the disruptive impact of permanent smartphone use, especially for younger users. "I'm worried about the disruptive world of smartphones that I helped create," he confessed in a tweet. "And how it affects people who grew up believing it just had to be that way."
https://twitter.com/richminer/status/1103327630215036928

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#android #kidds #smartphone #abuse #RichMiner #why #DeleteFacebook

How Banks Make Online Banking Insecure Through Apps

1. App obligation

Online banking on the smartphone is generally not a good idea. The reason for this is not necessarily the banking apps, but the update policy of the smartphone manufacturers, the misleading advertising of the banks and the naive behavior of the customers. However, all this does not seem to bother the banks much. True to the motto:

"Digital first - Concerns second"

banking apps are made appealing to loyal customers and any risks are simply pushed aside. The fact is: with smartphone apps, banks have moved to a platform that they cannot control. Nevertheless, banking apps are promoted and security mechanisms such as two-factor authentication (2FA) are simply undermined by ill-considered decisions. In the end, online banking via app is not more secure, but exactly the opposite.

1st problem: Android update policy

Both software and hardware have weaknesses, some of which are so serious that attackers can take complete control of a system. It is therefore essential to import available (system) updates promptly in order to keep the risk for data and the digital identity as low as possible. That's the theory. In practice, the world looks very different again - especially in the Android world.

Most Android devices are usually only neglected by many manufacturers with regard to security updates, and at some point they are even completely violated. This inevitably creates a "vacuum" in the Android world that makes many or most devices vulnerable to critical security vulnerabilities. Such vulnerabilities enable attackers to gain control over the device, spy on the user or allow data to flow off unnoticed. Discovering a critical vulnerability would be enough to make millions of devices vulnerable in one fell swoop. Such serious vulnerabilities are not rare, but occur at regular intervals. In 2018 alone, 611 vulnerabilities were identified in Android - in 2017 even 842.

Full translated article:
https://telegra.ph/How-Banks-Make-Online-Banking-Insecure-Through-Apps-07-09

Source (🇩🇪):
https://www.kuketz-blog.de/wie-banken-online-banking-durch-apps-unsicher-machen/

#Kuketz #online #banking #smartphone #apps #insecure #vulnerabilities
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Librem 5 Linux smartphone final specifications announced


https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-smartphone-final-specs-announced


#librem #mobile #smartphone #os #alternatives #specs

"Dopamin": Miniseries about the addiction mechanisms of Tinder, Facebook and Co.

"They'll do anything to make you an addict," they say about #Tinder, #Facebook, #CandyCrush, #Instagram, #YouTube, #Snapchat, #Uber and #Twitter in the miniseries of #Arte. Eight episodes explain in detail which mechanisms are triggered in our brain to keep us engaged

📺 Dopamine - Tinder

📺 Dopamine - Facebook

📺 Dopamine - Candy Crush

📺 Dopamine - Instagram

📺 Dopamine - YouTube

📺 Dopamine - Snapchat

📺 Dopamine - Uber

📺 Dopamine - Twitter

💡 Actually, we have known this for a long time:
Candy Crush, Tinder, Facebook and others are above all one thing - time wasters. Nevertheless, it's extremely difficult for us to leave the #Smartphone on the shelf and not check out what's new every few minutes. Especially since what is then presented to us as news only rarely has news value or really gets us ahead. Nevertheless, we check out pages and pages of Aunt Monika's pictures from Paris, swear to complete "only one more level" at Candy Crush, let ourselves be carried away by the autoplay function into ever more abstruse depths of Youtube and simply can't get enough of cute cat photos on Instagram. What's wrong with us?

#Tinder #Facebook #CandyCrush #Instagram #YouTube #Snapchat #Uber #Twitter #Dopamin #video #thinkabout
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Here’s a list of 200+ smartphones that can run Linux distributions

A Linux kernel is a core element of Android but despite this, Android cannot be called a Linux distribution because it lacks a GNU interface typical of a Linux distro. Android and Linux apps are not exchangeable because of different runtime systems and libraries. But with the efforts of some brilliant developers, you can actually run a legit Linux distribution on your smartphone which traditionally runs Android. The steps are as simple as installing a custom ROM and this is especially helpful if you have an aging smartphone that isn’t likely to get much – or even worse any – support.

If you’re looking to experience something other than Android – more specifically, Linux – on a smartphone, there are several touch-based Linux distros like Ubuntu Touch, postmarketOS, and Maemo Leste. You can head over to Can My Phone Run Linux, a database set up by TuxPhones and type your phone’s name in the search bar to find a list of Linux distributions that are supported by your phone.

👉🏼 Can My Phone Run Linux?
Type in the name of your smartphone, smartwatch or tablet, and see by what Linux distributions it is supported.

https://many.tuxphones.com/

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Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy

Every minute of every day, everywhere on the planet, dozens of companies — largely unregulated, little scrutinized — are #logging the #movements of tens of millions of #people with #mobile #phones and storing the information in gigantic #data #files. The Times #Privacy #Project obtained one such file, by far the largest and most sensitive ever to be reviewed by journalists. It holds more than 50 billion location pings from the phones of more than 12 million Americans as they moved through several major cities, including Washington, New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Each piece of #information in this file represents the precise location of a single #smartphone over a period of several months in 2016 and 2017. The data was provided to Times Opinion by sources who asked to remain anonymous because they were not authorized to share it and could face severe penalties for doing so. The sources of the information said they had grown alarmed about how it might be abused and urgently wanted to inform the public and lawmakers.

After spending months sifting through the data, tracking the movements of people across the country and speaking with dozens of data companies, technologists, lawyers and academics who study this field, we feel the same sense of alarm. In the cities that the data file covers, it tracks people from nearly every neighborhood and block, whether they live in mobile homes in Alexandria, Va., or luxury towers in Manhattan.

One search turned up more than a dozen people visiting the Playboy Mansion, some overnight. Without much effort we spotted visitors to the estates of Johnny Depp, Tiger Woods and Arnold Schwarzenegger, connecting the devices’ owners to the residences indefinitely.

If you lived in one of the cities the #dataset covers and use #apps that share your# location — anything from weather apps to local news apps to coupon savers — you could be in there, too.

If you could see the full trove, you might never use your phone the same way again.

Read more:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/location-tracking-cell-phone.html

#surveillance #privacy #why #thinkabout
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"Dopamine": Miniseries about the addiction mechanisms of Tinder, Facebook and Co. (RePost)

"They'll do anything to make you an addict," they say about #Tinder, #Facebook, #CandyCrush, #Instagram, #YouTube, #Snapchat, #Uber and #Twitter in the miniseries of #Arte. Eight episodes explain in detail which mechanisms are triggered in our brain to keep us engaged

📺 Dopamine - Tinder

📺 Dopamine - Facebook

📺 Dopamine - Candy Crush

📺 Dopamine - Instagram

📺 Dopamine - YouTube

📺 Dopamine - Snapchat

📺 Dopamine - Uber

📺 Dopamine - Twitter

💡 Actually, we have known this for a long time:
Candy Crush, Tinder, Facebook and others are above all one thing - time wasters. Nevertheless, it's extremely difficult for us to leave the #Smartphone on the shelf and not check out what's new every few minutes. Especially since what is then presented to us as news only rarely has news value or really gets us ahead. Nevertheless, we check out pages and pages of Aunt Monika's pictures from Paris, swear to complete "only one more level" at Candy Crush, let ourselves be carried away by the autoplay function into ever more abstruse depths of Youtube and simply can't get enough of cute cat photos on Instagram. What's wrong with us?

#Tinder #Facebook #CandyCrush #Instagram #YouTube #Snapchat #Uber #Twitter #Dopamine #video #thinkabout
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Ministers plan to give more UK public bodies power to access phone data

Expansion of ‘snooper’s charter’ would allow more authorities to access web browsing histories

Ministers want to expand the scope of UK surveillance laws to give more public authorities – including a pensions watchdog and the Environment Agency – the power to access vast databases of personal phone and computer data.

Five additional public bodies are to be allowed to obtain communications data under the Investigatory Powers Act – frequently dubbed the snooper’s charter – as they are “increasingly unable to rely on local police forces to investigate crimes on their behalf”, according to documents published by the government.

The US whistleblower Edward Snowden once described the act as the “most extreme surveillance in the history of western democracy”.

The Civil Nuclear Constabulary, the armed police force in charge of protecting civil nuclear sites; the Environment Agency; the Insolvency Service; the UK National Authority for Counter Eavesdropping (UKNACE), an anti-espionage service and the Pensions Regulator are poised to benefit from strengthened powers.

The authorities join an established list that includes police forces, government departments and public agencies including the Health and Safety Executive.

A Home Office spokesperson said: “To protect national security and investigate serious crimes, law enforcement and relevant public authorities need the ability to acquire communications data.

“These powers are only used where it is absolutely necessary and proportionate and are independently authorised by the Office for Communications Data Authorisations, except in urgent or national security cases.”

👉🏼 Read more:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/22/ministers-plan-to-give-more-uk-public-bodies-power-to-hack-phones

#UK #surveillance #smartphone #data
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Phones could detect drinking over legal driving limit

Smartphones can detect when you've had too much to drink by monitoring your walk, a study has found.

American researchers used sensors in smartphones to detect when somebody was over the legal drink-drive limit.

Phones were able to do this with about 90% accuracy when users walked just 10 steps in the study by the University of Pittsburgh.

Scientists hope the discovery can be used to develop device alerts, such as asking people not to drive while drunk.

"We have powerful sensors we carry around with us wherever we go," lead researcher Brian Suffoletto said. "We need to learn how to use them to best serve public health."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53834476

#smartphone #privacy

My Phone Was Spying on Me, so I Tracked Down the Surveillants

There are 160 apps on my phone. What they’re actually doing, I don’t know. But I decided to find out.

I have a feeling these apps are spying on me. Well, not listening in, but that they’re keeping track of where I am at all times. That my every move is shared on. When I am shopping for groceries, having a drink, or hanging out with friends.

I know there are those that buy and sell such information. How are they tracking us, and what do they want with our data?

To try to get to the bottom of this, I started an experiment in February. I installed lots of apps on a spare phone. I would then carry that phone everywhere.

Or almost. I left it at home when I took a COVID-19 test in April.

Easy to misuse
There is a good reason for why my feeling of being monitored has increased over the years. This spring, I was part of an NRK team documenting how more than 8,300 mobile phones were being tracked while they were at hospitals or women’s shelters.

For the sum of 35,000 NOK (3,300 EUR / 4,000 USD), we got access to location data showing where tens of thousands of Norwegians had travelled in 2019.

👀 👉🏼https://nrkbeta.no/2020/12/03/my-phone-was-spying-on-me-so-i-tracked-down-the-surveillants/

👀 👉🏼 https://nrkbeta.no/2020/12/03/telefonen-spionerte-pa-meg-slik-fant-jeg-overvakerne/

#smartphone #spying #surveillants #surveilling #tracking #thinkabout
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Redefining longevity: Android 9 now available for Fairphone 2

It all started with a spark of inspired optimism: We can change the electronics industry for the better, by becoming a part of it. Setting new standards and reshaping an entire industry was going to take serious, long-term commitment.

This year is a milestone for us, and you, as it marks 5 years of continuous support of the Fairphone 2. It is also one of the few Android smartphones sold in that year (2015), to still receive continued software support. It might not seem like a big deal, but trust us, it is. This is the only smartphone to receive an upgrade to Android 9 and we had to build the operating system without any support from chip-maker Qualcomm.

https://www.fairphone.com/en/2021/03/25/android9-fairphone2/

#fairphone #smartphone #update #video
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Why You Should Stop Using Your Facebook Messenger App

If you’re one of the 1.3 billion people using Facebook Messenger, then you need to switch to an alternative. Facebook has suddenly confirmed significant delays with much needed security enhancements to the platform, enhancements that its own executives say are “essential.” Here’s what you need to know.

“The lessons of the past five years make it absolutely clear that technology companies and governments must prioritize private and secure communication.” So said senior Facebook exec Will Cathcart in a Wired opinion piece this week.

Cathcart currently heads WhatsApp, and his article focuses on the need for end-to-end encryption to be protected. He’s absolutely right. Such encryption is “essential,” there is “serious pressure to take it away,” and it “should not be taken for granted.”

I have warned users before to quit Facebook Messenger for alternatives. Beyond its lack of encryption, the platform is also open to content monitoring by Facebook itself, and I have also reported on other serious issues with its handling of your private data.

Now, this week, we have seen three separate events, all of which should give you every reason you need to make that change, to quit Messenger. First Cathcart’s rallying cry for users to use platforms with end-to-end encryption in place. Second, Facebook admitting that such security will not come to Messenger until some time in 2022, at the earliest. And, finally, another story on Facebook’s data mishandling.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2021/04/10/stop-using-facebook-messenger-on-your-apple-iphone-or-google-android-phone/

#facebook #DeleteFacebook #messenger #android #google #apple #smartphone #thinkabout
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