• アルケミー船長
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      131 year ago

      Molly is only available on Android, as far as differences it is a hardened fork of signal with an encrypted database, what that means in practice is even if someone was actively probing your phone to try to gain access to messages they wouldn’t be able to due to the encryption. It’s very useful if you are an active target or you don’t trust your phone os to play nice. I personally use it myself and really like it but in general it’s not terribly different.

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          1 year ago

          It’s only encrypted in a BFU state, (before first unlock). Police can probe your phone for data using a tool by cellebrite without root. GrapheneOS includes a auto rebooting feature to place it back in a BFU state but other phones will lack this feature. Using Molly’s database lock allows you to not trust the OS itself by encrypting it.

          edit: corrected cellbrite to cellebrite

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          71 year ago

          The main issue with encrypting the database using Molly’s setup is you’ll miss notifications and calls until you unlock, this might be able to be fixed using a different database encryption setup but as it stands it would be inconvenient for many.

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      11 year ago

      It has a completely FOSS version that is available on F-droid. It also implements a pin which signal removed for convenience.

      Its not available for ios

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          01 year ago

          For android Lineage os the best with F-droid as a app store.

          Many will disagree with me but Lineage os has the best support and is updated once a month. None of your privacy ROMs can compete with that

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              -41 year ago

              True so don’t lose your phone. Its encrypted and you can use third party apps to auto wipe under certain circumstances

              • @[email protected]
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                21 year ago

                the more third party apps you have, the higher your attack surface and a decrease in security. I love my mods but this isn’t really a solution and should be an os feature.

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                  01 year ago

                  How would that be implemented? The way stock does it is though proprietary software

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                    21 year ago

                    what is proprietary about a locked bootloader? the only android fork i can recommend is GrapheneOS. you relock the bootloader on that as well.