Bobbie Thompson

Living underground by choice, not by accident | GrapheneOS 📱 | Privacy advocate | Big Brother's worst nightmare

[Bobbie Thompson @HyperSktizo]

Feel free to add me on SimpleX if you'd like help with anything or just to chat.

https://t.co/mjbBswsbPy

[HOUSE PORN @HOUSEPORN___]

It’s the best set-up I’ve ever seen in my life

[Bobbie Thompson @HyperSktizo]

@signalapp
Is it true you still refuse to fully address how your co-founder Moxie Marlinspike had a clear conflict of interest as a paid advisor to MobileCoin, then integrated their token into Signal right as it pumped?

[Sooraj @iAnonymous3000]

I don’t understand why Payments is still in Signal.

Signal’s core promise is that it is a clean, private, boring messenger. No ads.

Then you open Settings → Payments and get prompted to reactivate MobileCoin, described as “a new privacy focused digital currency.”

The activation dialog warns that lost payments or balances cannot be recovered. Tap “MobileCoin Terms” and you land on Sentz, the company MobileCoin became.

That is what feels off.

The issue is not that Signal can read the transactions. The issue is that Signal is using the trust of a high-assurance encrypted messenger to surface a specific third-party crypto payment product to normal users.

Why MobileCoin?

It muddies the brand and makes a clean privacy tool feel less clean.

Signal should be boring.

This is not boring.

[Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees]

Tyranny is always welcomed on behalf of child safety

How could you be against child safety?

[Bobbie Thompson @HyperSktizo]

@GrapheneOS Thank you for setting the gold standard when it comes to security along with free and open source projects. The user experience is second to none and I'm honestly in awe of the work ethic and passion backing the project.

[GrapheneOS @GrapheneOS]

Today is the official release day for Android 17. We've already fully ported GrapheneOS to Android 17 and are in the process of pushing the code to our public repositories. We're building a final official release based on Android 16 QPR2 today and we'll do an initial Android 17 release tomorrow.

We've already tested the Android 17 port of GrapheneOS on the Pixel 6a, 7, 7a, 8, 10a, 10 and 10 Pro Fold. It will be possible for people to start building and testing it themselves later today once we finish pushing the code. We'll start the process of public testing for official releases tomorrow.

[Bobbie Thompson @HyperSktizo]

@0bscuratea @brave Works flawlessly for millions daily. Sounds like a skill issue on your end, champ. Try doing some basic troubleshooting before stating the entirety of Braves browser isn't working.

[notafbihoneypot @notafbihoneypot]

blocking ads is not piracy and you can suck my balls if you think it is

[Bobbie Thompson @HyperSktizo]

@0bscuratea @brave What are you talking about? I use it on my mobile and my desktop and my work laptop and I have absolutely zero issues.

[CyberInsider @CyberInsidercom]

Signal and Mullvad warn about the UK’s plans to scan people's phones

#Signal #Mullvad #UK

https://t.co/Zhkfg2whIn

[Unstoppable | Privacy Wallet @unstoppablebyhs]

REMEMBER: KYC gets people kidnapped!

Not metaphorically. Literally.

Every crypto kidnapping you've read about - the wrench attacks, the abducted founders' kids, the millionaires tortured in rented villas - started the same way:

a KYC database leak (or similar)!

You didn't give that information to criminals. You gave it to a compliant, regulated platform.

KYC has never caught the kidnappers. It recruited their targets.

The most dangerous thing in crypto is a spreadsheet with your name and address on it.

There is exactly one defense: don't be on the list.

No account. No selfie. No proof of address.

Crypto should be held in a wallet that doesn't know who you and doesn't ask for your ID to trade assets.

We built that wallet. No accounts, no email, no tracking, no KYC.

The empty database is the only one that can't be leaked!

[Bobbie Thompson @HyperSktizo]

@ravikiran_dev7 😭😭😭

[Bobbie Thompson @HyperSktizo]

@brave You're the goat

[Darren of Plymouth @DarrenPlymouth]

You can opt out of the NHS Palantir data transfer.

Instructions below.

Please repost widely.

[Mullvad.net @mullvadnet]

This is what the UK spyware proposal means.

There must be government spyware on every mobile device. It shall watch everything that happens, including always watching the screen, looking for things the government disapproves of.

When anything is flagged by the software as something the government doesn't like, the software must block it from being sent or displayed (in realtime).

The user of the device must not be able to shut this watching and blocking off. The only way to shut it off would be to ask the government or its proxies to do so for you, at their discretion.

Therefore the whole device must be locked down. Administrator rights and the decision of what software or operating system to run or not to run must be taken from the owner/user and handed to the government and its proxies.

Apple and Google are themselves working hard to lock down the devices they are involved in to shut out competition and establish a duopoly.

The UK government says it is "working closely" with Apple and Google and currently they synchronise and coordinate their communication on this subject.

The UK government is now proposing to mandate what would otherwise be illegal anti-competitive practices.

@GrapheneOS on the Apple and Google duopoly:
https://t.co/rbRmcUDTRu

Statement from @signalapp
https://t.co/vJILcSrs4s

@ReclaimTheNetHQ on the state spyware:
https://t.co/3FCi06bP77

The government announcement:
https://t.co/ynYjR3DIRo

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

❗️ GrapheneOS has commented on Sony’s age verification partner Yoti, threatening to report GrapheneOS users to law enforcement.

[Bobbie Thompson @HyperSktizo]

@Taniyatweets_ Ah, yes, Ubuntu, the spyware of Linux distributions.