Martin Shelton
Digisec @freedom.press. Was that @mshelton guy on the other site.
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- Lockdown on Android is a bit different. (I wish Google and Apple would talk more about how to avoid confusion.) Android’s lockdown mode will disable biometrics. Android’s Advanced Protection has more robust protections.
- Dril presents without comment
- For folks interested, the closest Android equivalent is Advanced Protection. Check that out.
- Lockdown Mode has blocked some folks from messaging me over SMS, and occasionally fails to load images in Safari. That is kind of annoying. Other than that, everything pretty much works the same. If you feel at acute risk, or if you’re a security nerd, it’s worth trying it out.
- New from 404 Media: the FBI has been unable to get into the iPhone of raided Washington Post journalist because the phone had Lockdown Mode enabled. Apple markets Lockdown Mode mostly to stop spyware like NSO. Here, a real world example of it stopping access too www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...
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- I don't think I realized how many things you can print in a single day until I listened to your podcast. That's WILD. First time I've considered investing in this kind of thing.
- We're getting a lot of questions about Signal group chats, and how to use them as safely as possible. Share widely: freedom.press/digisec/blog...
- I suspect my journalist friends already know this, but the risk associated with protests — no matter how normie-coded they might be — is extremely dependent on a just few people making bad decisions that lead to unnecessary escalations.
