𝒅𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒎 @dazinism@social.coop

#introduction
#socialcoop

I've been on Mastodon over at
https://social.weho.st/@dazinism
I'm based in the UK and into food, land, tech and people collaborating to manage them.
I'm involved in a few projects -

https://www.ourfieldproject.org/ 40 people using online tools to collaborate managing a field

http://travellingtoolbox.org.uk/ is a mobile hackspace/workshop set up to help environmental & community projects build & fix tools and infrastructure

http://farmhack.org/wiki/soilhack-wiki Soilhack is a peer 2 peer learning network

@dankwraith @starrycosmos @ExperimentV @alanz

Draw over other apps permission is not listed when looking at an apps permissions.
For these facebook apps on this phone the switches cant be turned off

Not a very secure device
Has Android6 Marshmallow
4 years & 4 lots of major security and (potentially) privacy improvements since,coming with each new Android version

Android security patch level= Feb 2017-feels a bit recent for a phone still on Android6

Updated June.There is another update

@dankwraith @starrycosmos @ExperimentV @alanz

I've been using it today, sent it a few unique files via Bluetooth, rebooted a couple of times, added some apps & did some web browsing

I havent caught the facebook system apps doing anything yet except when starting the phone & then only one of them, it runs for about 00:20 (20 seconds) while it calls home & transfers a bit of data

Possibly (but unlikely?) they are being v sneaky & hiding their activities - as explained they could do this

@dankwraith @starrycosmos @ExperimentV @alanz

Its not possible to disable these apps. They restart pretty soon after they are force stopped.

They have the 'draw over other apps' permission and it cant be disabled (can fool you to do things or hide stuff from you)

Looking at com.Facebook.system using the Stanley app it has very powerful permissions. Can watch what apps are running, start and stop apps (or just parts of them) and even install or delete software on the phone

#facebook

@dankwraith @starrycosmos @ExperimentV @alanz

Decided I should check out my assumption that a disabled presinstalled Facebook app couldnt get my data

Have a very cheap Acatel Android I got new a year ago

Deleted the Facebook app when I got it

Looking at android settings, apps & selecting 'show system' from the menu I found that there are 2 facebook system apps

One of them starts up at boot, connects to Facebook & transfers some data. It has storage permission (I had it off)

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@dankwraith @starrycosmos @ExperimentV

Applications Info (Show metadata of installed applications) - https://f-droid.org/app/com.majeur.applicationsinfo
(I find this crashes when asking to look at some apps)

Checkey (utility for getting information about the APKs that are installed on your device) - https://f-droid.org/app/info.guardianproject.checkey

Net Monitor (Shows network connections of installed apps) - https://f-droid.org/app/org.secuso.privacyfriendlynetmonitor

I think that disabling pre-installed Facebook app would stop it collecting data from your phone.

@dankwraith @starrycosmos @ExperimentV

In Android settings -

*If you check out app permissions - in this case telephone permission. You should also be able to get it to also show you permissions of system apps

*If you activate the hidden android "developer options" you can check Running services and if apps are active.

Apps that can give more interesting info about apps -

Stanley (An application explorer for developers) - https://f-droid.org/app/fr.xgouchet.packageexplorer

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@dankwraith @starrycosmos
@ExperimentV

As far as I'm aware all Androids follow the android permission model & stuff we know about Facebook tells

* On Android phones with Google Play Services stuff installed and active the Facebook app eavesdrops on your calls and from your pocket htpps://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/wjbzzy/your-phone-is-listening-and-its-not-paranoia

* Facebook added permissions to their app to grab peoples call logs https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3067765/uk-parliament-publishes-reams-of-facebook-enternal-docs-exposing-the-social-networks-machinations-for-user-data

Things that can be checked …

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A proposal for a Global Co-operative IT Network from the International Co-operative Alliance

"The purpose will be to serve the IT needs of the coop movement.

It will be a forum where ICA members can go to get advice on different IT products, services and service providers and where IT professionals from coops or who serve coops can work together, learn from each other and recommend products and services to help members."

#coops

https://community.coops.tech/t/a-proposal-for-a-global-co-operative-it-network-from-the-ica/1171

GCHQ Propose Workaround That Creates Same Trust Problem As Encryption Backdoors

"Multiple rulings have found GCHQ's surveillance efforts in violation of UK law. A number of leaks over the past half-decade have shown its oversight is mostly ornamental"
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20181129/11090541132/gchq-propose-going-dark-workaround-that-creates-same-user-trust-problem-encryption-backdoors-do.shtml

@Ajz
Saw you followed my old account. I'm tooting from here now.

The new repertoire of repression and how movements resist. Introduction. - https://www.opendemocracy.net/simin-fadaee-geoffrey-pleyers/new-repertoire-of-repression-and-how-movements-resist

Did you know a site can use JavaScript to see what sites you have open in other tabs in a browser?

https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.07153

... continued

Encrypting mails with usable tools: The mass adoption of encryption technologies

Let's develop peasant computing, let's breed
kittens

https://www.ritimo.org/IMG/pdf/sobtech2-en-with-covers-web-150dpi-2018-01-10.pdf

#coops #encryption #sovereignty

PDF

Technological Sovereignty 2

Index

What are we talking about?

Learning to love machines again

Code is political, algorithms are weapons of math destruction

Digital Governance

The case of Internet Relay Chat

Hacklabs to technological cooperatives

From appropriate technologies to re-appropriated technologies

A seed sprouts when it is sown in fertile soil

Simultaneous interpreting using radio frequencies

Whistleblowing, a double edged sword

cont...

Farm Hacks

Tools made by farmers for farmers

Network approaches for increasing technological sovereignity

#farming #FarmHack #SoilHack #OpenSourceEcology
https://lab.allmende.io/solawi/farmhacks/blob/master/farmhacks.md