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There is a *lot* more to say about this, and I will do so in time. I've been letting the dust settle. The takeaway - your smartphone and laptop are not trustworthy, and neither is a room of students. The problems are *fundamental*. What do we do about this? What do we recommend?

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Sean O'Brien

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Jul 27, 2021

"Widespread, government-sponsored surveillance is also growing. Due to the existence of targeted surveillance like #NSO group's #Pegasus, I have a moral obligation to teach ethical hacking so that people can regain some autonomy over their devices..."

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- you all do great work. How do we move forward now that people distrust their devices more than ever?

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A good start would be not supporting people engaging in harassment and persistent raids/attacks on an open source project (GrapheneOS) truly working on fundamentally improving privacy and security. The ongoing long-term attempts at sabotage and driving people away hold it back.

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I and others rely on

for our safety. It's a vitally important project - how can we build bridges that encourage people to use it?

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Adoption primarily depends on improving usability without sacrificing privacy and security through projects like the web installer, sandboxed Play services compatibility layer and first party app repository / client. Beyond that, the resources needed to make custom hardware.

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