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@nixCraft@mastodon.social · 11 hours ago

Google Broke reCAPTCHA for De-Googled Android Users https://reclaimthenet.org/google-broke-recaptcha-for-de-googled-android-users

Google has tied its next-generation reCAPTCHA system to Google Play Services on Android, meaning anyone running a de-Googled phone will automatically fail verification when the system decides to challenge them. Another day another Google take over the world, open web and mobile ecosystems. This battle seems to be lost already because governments are ignoring shenanigans of Google.

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@Linux@mivatter.com · 4 hours ago

@nixCraft@mastodon.social

You misunderstand. The government is not ignoring this. They are encouraging this.

All those new laws for age verification, for example, are to prevent you from using an operating system or ROM that cannot be minored or controlled. Blocking reCAPTCHA on a non-approved, non-certified government and corporate sanctioned devices is just 1 piece of the big picture.

Chewie

@chewie@mammut.gogreenit.net · 3 hours ago

@Linux @nixCraft And I saw a youtube short (ugh, I know) saying that there's now a law being tabled in the US that will mean that government ID will be required to buy a SIM or phone (can't remember which), as an excuse to "stop Robo Calls".

What a load of BS.
Make it illegal to fake caller ID and surely a lot of problems will go away?

The originator should still be able to block caller ID, but then it's up to you if you pick up an "unidentified caller", surely?

Edit: Sadly, I can't find any more details about this at the moment - an original source would have been nice :(

Edit again: Found one: https://reclaimthenet.org/the-fcc-wants-your-id-before-you-get-a-phone-number

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@housepanther@social.goblackcat.com · 4 hours ago

@Linux @nixCraft This is the beginning of the slippery slope towards building in spyware and backdoors into the cryptographic subsystems of Windows and Mac OS. It has literally jack-all to do with protecting children. It is the early steps of fascism in the United States.

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@Linux@planet.moe · 3 hours ago

@housepanther @Linux@mivatter.com @nixCraft

It is not a slippery slope — it's the goal.

For example, the United States has made any new router not made in the USA illegal to import or sell. The problem is that no mainstream manufacturer currently makes routers in the USA. Whatever is currently in stock at stores and warehouses is all that is left.

However, companies can apply for special exceptions if they agree to implement the new control chip or firmware, and pay a fee. Netgear has recently done this.

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@Linux@planet.moe · 3 hours ago

@housepanther

Here is the story about Netgear bending the knee. https://www.pcmag.com/news/netgear-scores-the-first-exemption-from-the-fccs-foreign-made-router-ban

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@chewie@mammut.gogreenit.net · 3 hours ago

@Linux@planet.moe @housepanther @Linux@mivatter.com @nixCraft

How exactly did they bend the knee? I can't find out what they did in the article.

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@Linux@planet.moe · 3 hours ago

@chewie

I need to stop using PC Magazine as a news source. They tend to silently update and revise their articles. I think they redo them for either better engagement or SEO, or something like that.

One of the links they included pointed to the FCC’s PDF file, which outlined the requirements in explicit detail to qualify for an exemption and continue operating in the USA.

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Simon Brooke

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot · 6 hours ago

@nixCraft This is clear abuse of monopoly, and absolutely has to be illegal (everywhere). I cannot see the EU tolerating it.