Daniel Micay

Security researcher/engineer working on mobile privacy/security. Founder of @GrapheneOS.

[Daniel Micay @DanielMicay]

@maceip Enforcing Google's licensing model for Google Mobile Services which includes forcing including Google search, Google Chrome, Google Maps, etc. is not only morally wrong but illegal. If you don't like remote attestation getting a bad reputation due to Google, take it up with them.

[Daniel Micay @DanielMicay]

@maceip It's anti-security and anti-competitive to ban using far more devices which do support hardware-based attestation while permitting highly insecure ones because they license Google Mobile Services. Play Integrity API is not a security feature and neither is anything built on it.

[Daniel Micay @DanielMicay]

@maceip If the Play Integrity API is a security feature, why does it ban GrapheneOS which is far more secure than anything they permit? They could verify GrapheneOS with hardware attestation. They're well aware of it. They're explicitly choosing to ban it because that's the whole point.

[Daniel Micay @DanielMicay]

@maceip There's absolutely no security justification for the Play Integrity API. It's easily bypassed but not to provide long term reliable compatibility with apps in an alternative OS. It permits devices with more than 10 years without security patches but not a far more secure device.

[Daniel Micay @DanielMicay]

@maceip > and lowkey wtf did claude write this?

The thread wasn't written with the help of any LLM and is highly accurate. Google has recently been sabotaging Android OS security with business decisions deprioritizing security and is also engaging in highly anti-competitive behavior.

[Daniel Micay @DanielMicay]

@maceip > i know youre ex-graphene

No.

> but the problem with such hyperbolic castigation

There's no hyperbole there and if anything it doesn't get across how astoundingly anti-competitive and anti-security the Play Integrity API manages to be.

> how it is a tool we need

This isn't.

[Daniel Micay @DanielMicay]

@crookedRebel I don't want someone publicly spreading lies about me using GrapheneOS. If you were a GrapheneOS community member and targeted other open source developers this way, you would be quickly banned. It's you who is toxic, not the person you're targeting talking about your harassment.

[Daniel Micay @DanielMicay]

@crookedRebel We've provided a large amount of evidence and the ongoing harassment is plainly visible across many platforms. You're making false accusations towards me based on fabricated stories from people spearheading the harassment. You're providing a demonstrating of libel and bullying.

[Sam Ro 📈 @SamRo]

no shit

[James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki]

Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us.

So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is.

[Radek Owczarek @RadekOwczarek]

@wartranslated The "small man" @radeksikorski during the fighting against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in 1986.

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

What a deal! Surrender, resign, and give us a ransom in exchange for nothing!

[ELINT News @ELINTNews]

So when U.S. Key Hole reconnaissance satellites see Kh-101 cruise missiles targeted at power plants and hospitals being loaded on to Tu-95’s in Russia, they won’t be warning Ukraine in advance. Nice, another absolutely unconscionable decision.

[LaurieWired @lauriewired]

In an 1997 AI class at UT Austin, a neural net playing "infinite-board" Tic-Tac-Toe found an unbeatable strategy:

Choose moves billions of squares away, causing your opponent's to run out of memory and crash, forfeiting their turn.

The winning move was to kill your enemy.

[Nikola Toshev @ntoshev]

@elonmusk This was never Zelensky's choice. Peace makes sense only with REAL security guarantees, which no one is willing to provide. US, UK, France, and Russia all "guaranteed" Ukraine's security when it surrendered its nukes 20 yrs ago. Russia has been breaking each and every deal since!

[Daniel Micay @DanielMicay]

@kommentlezz They don't take it very seriously. He got a 4 year sentence for trying to physically harm people with law enforcement. Law enforcement and the court system don't acknowledge that the people are being used as a dangerous weapon and that people can and do get harmed/killed by them.

[Daniel Micay @DanielMicay]

Can someone in the US file a FOIA request about https://t.co/ibP4KJO0AF to find out if they were the person paid to try to have me killed by law enforcement?

There's a chance it could be traced back to the person who paid for it. I can contact the detectives here about it.