Predicting the future with 100% accuracy is difficult. It’s unknowable if physical money will completely disappear.

The one thing I hold as an absolute constant, is humans are adaptable, humans will trade and use whatever they can, whatever is convenient, to their advantage.

Can you trade today, gold for a donut? Yes, but you’re going to put a lot of effort into that trade, just to find a counterparty. And then for the counterparty to verify it’s actually gold etc etc but you can do it.

Fascist governments like the centralized power, and that includes centralizing money, including peer-to-peer exchanges. So there’s always going to be the urge to control the absolute flow of all money. That being said, not every government has perfect cell phone coverage over their whole and nation, not all of their people have phones, not all of those phones are always on the network. The one thing money needs to do is work even offline.

You see the boat in the photos? You see how it’s got a flat bottom, and a ramp that can be lowered? It is literally designed to land on beaches and offload cargo. No Pier needed

War… War never changes.

He has a point.

I’m pretty sure all the upvotes are coming from the same person’s sock puppet accounts. Just like in this thread they are talking to themselves with the different sock puppets

Does this mean your also against yubikeys?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/hardware-security/tpm/tpm-fundamentals

Devices that incorporate a TPM can create cryptographic keys and encrypt them, so that the keys can only be decrypted by the TPM. This process, often called “wrapping” or “binding” a key, can help protect the key from disclosure.

This is how cell phones and windows hello justify short pins, the pin goes into a rate limited TPM that then discloses a larger key to decrypt the actual secret.

The device you’re thinking of has 42 decibels of sound. You should be aware of that, I don’t think it’s actually fanless

Noise is going to be a huge factor for your home lab, so make sure you look at the data sheet for whatever you’re about to buy and check what it’s rated noise level is

Qubes is immune to the knife to the throat threat model?

TPM in the SOC to transform the “convenient” pin into more robust encryption keys is the gold standard for civilian devices.

“computers” (of which a phone very much is) also use a TPM for this very reason.

But even taking what you say as gospel, the device isn’t insecure, its how people are using it.

I will stand by my comments a phone is the MOST secure device a civilian will use. Even with a secured desktop computer where someone diligently types in a 64 bit random code to unencrypt the hard drive… if they use the computer as a general purpose device, the threat surface raises dramatically. Now information and programs are not compartmentalized, install one bad program and it can trivially take over everything.

Please help me understand your point of view. So far all you have said in this conversation is that other people are wrong. That may be, but your not helping us understand you

I think phones are the MOST secure devices most people have. They are locked down, they run software in very restricted containers, they have more restrictive feature allowance. for 99% of the people the phone is the most secure device, full stop.

Can you do better on a computer? Sure, but it takes a bunch of work and isn’t the out of box experience

You can use two factor, fingerprint plus pin and have the pin layout randomize each time.

The hardware driver updates are absolutely critical if you want to have a secure phone. The phone has to be within the support window, to get any hardware driver updates. The risk surface of a phone’s hardware is huge, you’ve got the Bluetooth drivers, you’ve got the Wi-Fi drivers, you’ve got the modem drivers, and any other sensors I may have forgotten about.

Could you explain how phones are insecure by design?

I’m pretty sure this person was just looking for a reason to sue, and then tried to construct the most salacious situation to sue about.

I’m not against them suing, I think web tracking is evil, so more power to them, but I definitely feel like a lawyer helped architect the actual complaint

Depends on your friends threat model, lineage will work on it.

No security updates makes the Pixel 4a a bold choice for your main phone. I don’t recommend it

I would follow the graphene OS recommended phone guide, that gives you maximum flexibility to put any operating system you want on the phone.

Identity is a human right, digital systems should NOT have the power to revoke your identity.

It is of critical importance to design digital identity systems that ensure the privacy of citizens as well as protecting them from issuer corruption. Unfortunately, what Europe’s and USA’s public sectors are currently developing does not offer such basic protections. We aim to solve this issue and propose a method for untraceable selective disclosure and privacy preserving revocation of digital credentials, using the unique homomorphic characteristics of second order Elliptic Curves and Boneh-Lynn-Shacham (BLS) signatures. Our approach ensures that users can selectively reveal only the necessary credentials, while protecting their privacy across multiple presentations. We also aim to protect users from issuer corruption, by making it possible to apply a threshold for revocation to require collective agreement among multiple revocation issuers.

From a showrunner perspective, you want to have a diverse set of sets, activities, and situations you can perform in. That leaves you either with wealthy characters, who can justify doing these things in these exotic places. Or poor characters who behave wealthy inexplicably.

Ie friends where people working dead end jobs had housing better than most millionaires.

The person your talking with is letting perfect be the enemy of good.

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/basics/vpn-overview/

This is a really good review about the actual tradeoffs involved.