10-16-2021, 11:38 PM
(10-16-2021, 10:18 PM)bigtreeman Wrote: It's amazing how sense has gone out the window with the pandemic.
I've been hacking hardware since the first cmos micros
and will keep doing it for many years to come.
The US has passed the number died in the Spanish flu pandemic.
Here in Queensland, our borders are closed and we are relatively free to
move around safely, but carefully. It's not about my paranoia,
it's about caring for my neighbours and surrounding community.
Sorry to raise a sensible point in this contentious time.
as a temporary measure, i don't have problem if government collects some data in case of coronavirus. however, i have serious problems if closed platforms are used for it like google and apple.
in eu, countries provide documents which can be store on almost any device. it's just reader apps which might be dependent on closed platforms.
tracing apps are not available for pinephone, and mostly likely they won't be, because who wants to code them. tracing apps usually use bluetooth.
for that paranoia, i don't like to promote one, but googoo corps and worm-eaten rotten apple (and facehatebook) won't help on this paranoia, meaning that their corporate policies makes things worse. however, take paranoia only in moderation.