Rifat
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@AlternativeTo This will be a huge loss to the privacy tech world if Session really shuts down
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Session, a privacy-focused encrypted messaging app, has announced it will shut down in 90 days without new funding. With $1M annual costs, it serves 1.7M users around the world. Staff will leave by April 2026, with some volunteering until July.
alternativeto.net/news/2026/4/en…
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Let me introduce you to GrapheneOS, send 0 data to G**gle.
Nav Toor@heynavtoor
Your Android phone is sending data to Google every 4.5 minutes. Even when you're not touching it. Even when the screen is off. A peer-reviewed study from Trinity College Dublin confirmed it. 12 settings to change right now:
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@MEGAprivacy Why the fuck iOS stores notification cache for a month. Motherfuckes call themselves safer than others for this fucking data leak? Fuck them.
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What good is an encrypted app if your device exposes you anyway? 🤦♂️
The FBI recovered deleted Signal messages from a seized iPhone using Apple's notification database, even after the app was uninstalled.
Signal did its job but iOS created a loophole.
Quick fix:
• Go to Settings > Notifications > [App] and set "Show Previews" to Never
• Do this for Signal, WhatsApp, Telegram, and any app you use for private conversations
Our takeaway from this? Privacy isn't one setting. It's all of them.
International Cyber Digest@IntCyberDigest
🚨 BREAKING: The FBI has successfully extracted deleted Signal messages from a suspect's iPhone via notification storage, the place where all your notifications are stored for up to one month. Notification storage stores data from all messaging apps, it's a big flaw in iOS. But there's a way to turn it off...
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@Rifat2nt @babysolo_ @GrapheneOS Pixels are the only phone that have unlocked boot loaders. It doesn’t have anything to do with who they choose to build support for or not. Lol
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Google collects your location roughly 340 times per day on a stock Android phone.
GrapheneOS collects it zero times.
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@Rifat2nt @babysolo_ You can get a pixel 8 pro for $100-200 used. Check listings. Or just dump your phone completely and save the money all together and you’ll have better digital privacy.
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