Senior security writer uses adb shell command he doesn’t understand to do something to a package he doesn’t know is or isn’t on his phone.

Uh. OK.

Anyway.

I have 2 devices one on android 13 and one on grapheneos. Neither has Gemini.

To check for Gemini:

adb shell pm list packages bard

and since I don’t know if it’s a regular apk or not:

adb shell pm list packages --apex-only bard

To be super sure, I also checked using shell commands device_config list and getprop, and grep for strings including: gemini, bard, smart, ai, model, and personal(ize/ation)

eg adb shell device_config list | grep --color -i smart

The simplest and most generic solution is to go into the settings app and to your apps settings.

Select the app you want to prevent from opening.

Towards the bottom you should see something like “open.by default.”

Not sure exactly which version of android changed the options, but if you tap that it will either give the newer option of °in the app °in the browser

In the browser should keep the app from opening.

I find the new language is much less clear on what these do vs :

The older default links settings was to not allow app to open. Ask. Or allow.

You might also find a setting in the browser itself along similar lines of ‘allow links to open out of browser’ , ‘keep links in browser’,‘open link in app’ etc.

Also, if you like, you can also allow other preferred apps to open those links Eg:

And for more info :

https://support.google.com/android/search?q=open+by+default

I call my Dr.

I book an appointment. If urgent but not medically urgent to my immediate wellbeing I can get in in a week or so.

If urgent, but not emergency, I can go to a clinic or the hospital non emergency (hospital can have wait times up to several hours)

If emergency and severe or traumatic injury or life threatening - emergency at hospital. Triage assesses need. Last time I had to take someone it was maybe a 20 minute wait - they had been hurt pretty bad - got jumped.

None of any of the above will cost me any money.

An ambulance, though, costs like 75$ if it is not life threatening.

Canada.

Lol.

R’s have not only painted targets, they’ve made ads, and joked about killing civilians and anyone other than MAGAts

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/guns-republican-primary-campaign-ads-midterms-1336903/

Greene in an ad for her 2020 campaign cocked an assault rifle as she warned “antifa terrorists” to stay out of her district

Masters, a venture capitalist and favorite of Trump-loving billionaire Peter Thiel, has featured guns prominently throughout his primary campaign. He responded to President Biden’s promise on Monday to crack down on “ghost guns,” which are homemade and untraceable, by tweeting a picture of a “ghost gun” he recently built himself. “Very legal & very cool,” he wrote.

https://www.indy100.com/politics/eric-greitens-campaign-ad-gun

“There’s no bagging limit, no tagging limit, and it doesn’t expire until we save our country.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/south-carolina-governor-henry-mcmaster-hunting-dogs-b2344416.html

“I look forward to the day that Democrats are so rare, we have to hunt them with dogs,”

Edit: and for the record, Blake Masters is a piece of shit buddy of both elon and Vance and they are all tied together in their hate for democracy and love of Curtis Yarvin and the plot to destroy western civilization. (Source: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/inside-the-new-right-where-peter-thiel-is-placing-his-biggest-bets)

Seems the only real solution is to buy cheap burners.

Curious if using the website version of an app can pick up the mediaDRM key via the browser.

More like, if you steal something you are banned from using roads and sidewalks and doors.

I wouldn’t recommend anything.

This is only what I know.

There is much much much more I don’t know.

This might be useful to use temporarily when you add an app that you know will read these values on install.

You may be able to use an app like geto to have this option toggled so that it only uses the developer settings option when the app is launched and returns to hardware when it closes.

Keep in mind there are a host of other identifiers on your device that can also be used to track and identify the user and device.

I like privacy and security.

So, the media DRM toggle switches from the hardcoded hardware ID to a software DRM. Creating a new DRM key.

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/media/MediaDrm

Geto uses shizuku (an app that allows for adb/shell functionality) to change settings that are usually hiddden or inaccessible, or to give/deny apps permissions or features, or, as in the screenshot to change certain keys values. This allows you to change the environment and settings of the app on launch, and revert them on app close.

You can see all the current settings by using adb:

adb shell settings list [ global | secure | system ]

Or in termux with shizuku:

settings list [ global | secure | system ]

In the following screenshot I enter the shell using shizuku (rish) list global settings and find keys with adb. I change the value of adb_wifi_enabled (wirelese debugging) from 0 to 1 and set {1} as the default value. Then I list again to show the change.

This is what geto is doing. But it assigns it to the action of launching/closing an app. While doing it manually via terminal set those values system wide.

Sometimes, though, you may want a system wide change (like if you want to change the accent colors or theme from RAINBOW to VIBRANT).

(There are other configs and properties you can viewed and modify using other commands. (in shell try

cmd -l 

For a list of services. Some have user modable options. Be careful. If you don’t know, don’t touch. Every setting can be searched . there are hundreds or thousands .)

Was able to get a different result using the media DRM toggle in developer settings

Verified results using TrustDevice

https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.trustdevice.android

https://www.trustdecision.com/

The other identifiers remained.

No appops or permissions change or prevent the exposure of other information.

Actually… Geto, can apply appop settings/values per app launch. And you can change the android_id value.

Remember when phones had that insane super advanced tech that could guide anyone anywhere, even offline?

Seriously, why doesn’t the compass exist anymore?

I have never turned on location anything on grapheme.

On my other phone I have also uninstalled google location services/history, WiFi scanning, Bluetooth unknown tracker, etc.

If I get lost in a building… I ask someone.

I got a pixel 9 for $240 CAD via carrier promotion in Canada.

I held out getting a new phone as long as I could and they offered a new pixel 9 for $5 per month for 24 months

Not to trade in after 24.

It’s mine. For 5$ a month.

When I received it I didn’t turn it on for a week.

Read as much as I could to decide that Google would only ever see the single boot to enable developer mode and enable OEM unlock to flash graphenos.

It seemed intimidating, but the process to install is very smooth.

Please post the entirety of your online history.

Surely there’s no reason to hide.

Whether what you’ve done is entirely legal (or not) authoritariaism doesn’t care.

What is done in a free society is punished by small men with anger control issues.

What you may find reasonable to say in a free society, could, under a government opposed to free expression, land you in el Segundo - without your wallet.

The gestapo hide their faces because they know what they do is wrong, and to hide from justice.

People who protest or simply appreciate privacy do so because they understand the potential for retribution and being disappeared.

I’ve had the unload flag enabled in about: config for months.

Haven’t used the update yet but there are several related flags to change the appearance and behavior of unloaded tabs in there as well.

Tab groups are another thing I was using for a while, they still hide some flags to enable some options. Again, there are some neat flags associated with this in about: config.

There are also some hidden peefs for backing up your data that would be cool if they pushed them.

Sometimes it fewls lkke I probably spend more time tweaking flags than I do using the browser.

I use the release version, not nightly or developer. But you can usually find some future features in there. Some good, some not. YMMV.

As always - Use caution.

While this news is both expected and unsettling, I’m pretty keen on how our gov has this info available to the public.

And the site itself - such a vast resource for security info, tools, etc.

Not all of our gov nor all departments are something to behold, but our cyber teams are top notch.

And holy shit:

https://github.com/CybercentreCanada

It could have been gendar’Mint, gend’ARM64, or gend’Arch,BTW.

But they chose that awkward sounding abomination.

Oh well, it’s the year of the Linux desktop, I’ll forgive them.

For now.

Should have waited another 5.

All you can eat stake and eggs.

Rant away!

I, too, dislike that snap as well.

Canonical are doing some not cool things these days.

Good thing mint has lmde as their backup plan.

You know the people who created youtube are all part of the same OG corp/group that gave rise to the monsters who have created the hell we currently live in.

The PayPal mafia.

Thiel, musk, howry, Chen(yt), wong(reddit),Hoffman(LinkedIn)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal_Mafia

I really enjoy graphene and the separate user profiles with no google integration.

If a google app, or something from play store is needed they’ve developed a compatability layer and sandbox for play services and store.

It’s a lot of security toggles and permissions.

But not having Google sucking your data at every level of the OS is great.

Wirh the isolated profiles, you can still have a fully googled system which you can fully lockdown at anytime, while having a pure aosp high security profile.

It’s fdroid and Izzy/codeberg and ironfox and termux and a few other repos on main.

I don’t do snap/insta/meta/etc and have no need for apps that drain my soul, anyway.

Anyway, yeah, google fucking sucks.

I wonder how well that’ll work against the 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 (that’s the real number) ipv6 addresses.