hey shaggy. I want to touch on your last point as a newer developer:

My department is finally seeing 10x development due to the shift of writing code to writing spec. The main issue is now our pipeline is stuck at review, so all that extra output is effectively wasted. Do you have any tips on what worked for you if you had a similar situation?

exactly right. positioning the solution as "buy different hardware and swap OSs’ is short term thinking that solves the problem for the individual and exactly nobody else.

privacy should not be niche, it should be standard. go to city council meetings and make your voice known during flock safety hearings. write your legislators to make your stance known on OS DOB registry. its not nearly as cool as a de-googled phone you can show your friends. its not technical. but we’re sliding backwards because we’re distracted from tried and true solutions.

I’m putting that first sentence in my back pocket lol

If the post is getting deleted on one forum, they should post the findings somewhere else. that thread smells FUDdy to me

hey there, this is really cool. please keep us updated if you have any developments on how you solve the problems, and what else you discover

I checked gadgetbridge and it doesn’t look like there’s a solution for omnipod. That’s about as far as my knowledge can take me.

As far as workarounds: does the app require an internet connection? Could you buy a used android, go to a place with public WiFi to make a throwaway google account, download the app, never reconnect the phone to WiFi again?

It’s my rocket fuel, and it was either the safe or the toilet, alright

Ah, the researchers finally got around to playing Expedition 33 huh?

Jokes aside, isn’t this also a phenomenon with finishing books and TV shows?

hardware vulnerabilities undoubtedly exist, whether intentional or not. its simply the nature of designing these complex semiconductors.

that said, if one company intentionally creates a backdoor, won’t they all? what phone do you buy at that point?

any startup or small phone company may not have intentional backdoors, but I can guarantee their hardware security on all other levels pales to what apple and google can accomplish. I think the question then becomes are you more worried about google having a backdoor, or about third party compromises?

im not a fan of our choices, there is no silver bullet.

personally, my bet is that they don’t have anyone qualified enough to pull off an exploit like that (on me).

the problem with my bet: what we’ve seen is that they won’t care, and accuse individuals of terrorism based off the color of their clothes.