My last comment wasn’t really addressed personally to you, sorry i sounded like that
Having root is almost never a security benefit, it allows you to close one hole, but opens up 10 new more
It means you have your bootloader unlocked, you have secure boot disabled which allows for persistent malware. Just having root by itself opens up many more remote, zero click, or just very dangerous exploits
F-droid is not secure, some of the issues had been resolved, but it’s still not recommended for best practices
Of course, everything depends on the thread model
I personally really like fdroid and izzy, and other custom repos. And root is a cool thing, although i don’t have it on my daily driver(but have on my test phone)
It’s from the same devs of aurora store, aurora droid
And really, so much talking and scepticism around a free and open source app, you can go and check the source, or at least read a review about it (though the app wasn’t update
OP is recommending a cool app to spark a conversation, but all the replies are just complaints
Cool people made a cool app, cool people are hosting an alternative fdroid repo so it’s easier and faster for devs to publish their projects for the world to see, and cool people found this app and decided to share with other people
But those people are just behaving like boomers and saying that everything around is fake, dangerous, and so on
If somebody cares for security, why would that person even have root in the first place, same with fdroid, if you care for security you shouldn’t use fdroid
Sorry if i’m being to rough, everything i said is not really addressed to you, i’m just being pissed by people not appreciating somebody’s will to start a nice conversation
P.s. the last update of this app was like 3 years ago, if somebody cares for security, they should never install an app that old, it’s not even about root or some policies
Tor, metamask, two gcams(no network permissions), librera(i tried avoiding using it because of this in the past), and element, schildi, openweather 1000027182
Guys, please stop using telegram if you care for your security and privacy
Telegram is not fully open source, sometimes they release the source, but the hashes of the builds don’t even match (so it’s a different source code) 🚩
Zero transparency about data handling, even when they get caught they don’t tell details 🚩 (Telegram in the recent years has got really shady reputation)
Very often ways they implement security is weird: non open source app, non open source server, leaking APIs, use of phone numbers, at some point they started asking for an email, non encrypted chats by default, never encrypted group chats… it can continue forever 🚩
Non-standard encryption is a real red flag, non-open-source 🚩
I know some people that work/worked for the police, and they can read all the messages easy peasy, i was trying to tell to the people many years ago, but everyone was so amused by the stickers. Now you can just read stories of the journalists and activists, and how they got imprisoned with the use telegram 👁️🗨️💀
PLEASE, STOP USING TELEGRAM IF YOU CARE FOR YOUR PRIVACY OR SECURITY
I have some friends working in the police, many years they showed me how they can read messages of like anyone on telegram I was trying to tell people to stop using telegram for years, but now at least therecs some conversation is going on because of the journalists