Notesnook
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@notesnook
👀 Signal Messenger of note-taking apps 🤓 aka 100% open source and free (as in freedom) note taking app focused on your experience and your privacy. 🔑🛡️
Well, no more X app on mobile. It no longer will let me login from a @GrapheneOS device due to the attestation nonsense. @nikitabier might as well blame you since everyone on here does 😁 but let me tell you, even though I'm a monetized creator and user for 14 years, I will choose my privacy over using X if it comes to it. Privacy is a human right.
Google Keep yikes
Important Context on the @GrapheneOS x Motorola Partnership Motorola is now a subsidiary of Lenovo (which acquired it from Google in 2014). Lenovo is headquartered in Beijing and its largest shareholder is Legend Holdings -- company founded and partially controlled by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (state institution of the People’s Republic of China). [China’s 2017 National Intelligence Law (Article 14) legally compels Chinese organizations to support and cooperate with state intelligence work. This is the mandatory operating framework for any company under that jurisdiction.] Lenovo’s security track record: - 2006: the US State Department restricted 16K Lenovo computers to unclassified use only after security objections regarding hardware intended for classified embassy networks. - Intelligence agencies across the Five Eyes alliance enacted similar bans on their secret networks after MI5 identified backdoor vulnerabilities in Lenovo firmware. - 2013: Motorola Droid phones were silently transmitting personal data (including email and social media passwords) to Motorola’s servers every 9 minutes (often unencrypted). - 2015: Lenovo was caught preinstalling Superfish on consumer laptops -- which performed MITM attacks. - 2026: privacy class action was filed alleging that Lenovo’s own website tracking technologies expose American behavioral data to Chinese entities. The technical transition away from Pixel hardware involves significant trade-offs. Google Pixels use the Titan M2 - a RISC-V security chip with air-gapped manufacturing controls that provides hardware-backed key storage and verified boot protection isolated from the main CPU. Motorola does NOT have this. GrapheneOS publishes a non-exhaustive list of hardware requirements that any future device must meet (#future-devices" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">grapheneos.org/faq#future-dev…
): - hardware memory tagging (ARM MTE), - hardware-based control flow integrity (BTI/PAC), - isolated radios and components, - StrongBox keystore via secure element, - Weaver disk encryption throttling, - insider attack resistance for secure element updates, - inline disk encryption with wrapped key support, - verified boot with rollback protection for both firmware and OS, - hardware key attestation with attest key pinning support. Current Motorola hardware, including the flagship Motorola Signature, does not yet meet these standards. GrapheneOS is pursuing this to break the hardware monoculture where a single vendor dictates the project’s future. Future devices (targeted for 2027) are expected to feature physical sensor kill switches to disconnect cameras and microphones. However, a hardware kill switch is not a total solution. It can disable the mic and camera - it does NOT cover the baseband processor, storage controller, or other components with Direct Memory Access. If the underlying hardware or firmware is compromised at the factory level - a sensor switch cannot prevent data from being exfiltrated via the cellular modem or manipulated within the storage.
Automattic has announced that Simplenote is no longer in active development. While the app will remain available, only basic maintenance is planned for the near future. Users can turn to one of many alternatives listed on AlternativeTo. alternativeto.net/news/2026/3/au…
Your WhatsApp messages are private. We use the open-source Signal protocol to encrypt them. • Encryption happens on your device • Messages are encrypted before leaving your device • Only the intended recipient has the keys to decrypt messages • The message encryption keys are not accessible to WhatsApp or Meta Any claims to the contrary are false.
