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I’ve already seen the partnership between Motorola and Graphene, but nowhere do they say they’re going to add Graphene to old Motorola models, only for the new phone(s) in the Graphene line.

honestly it doesn’t really matter if they have access to my phone, because my Aegis and Keepass are protected by passwords, and different ones at that. anyway, I took your first comment into consideration and created a Keepass vault just for TOTP, with a different password from my password vault, of course, so if they access one of my vaults they wouldn’t have access to my passwords. I deleted my Aegis since I won’t need it anymore, but I kept a backup saved just in case.

In the world of privacy, it’s often best to reject things that are too convenient, but I managed to find a way to use KeePass for 2FA. Just create another vault with a different password and use that one specifically for 2FA. This means that if one of your vaults is compromised, you’re still not at risk.

Yeah

I’m so sorry you went through that, but there’s really no way a massive disaster could happen where I live; like I said, the country is right in the middle of a tectonic plate.

I understand your concerns, but none of them really affect me. I live in a country located in the center of a tectonic plate, which makes it very difficult for natural disasters to occur; for example, high-magnitude earthquakes have never happened here, and tsunamis have never occurred within the territory either—at most on the country’s coast in 2004, but I don’t live on the coast or in a flood-prone area. The reason I’m protecting myself regarding privacy issues isn’t to hide from the government, but if it were, one of the things I’d worry about least would be keeping my passwords secure. What might happen is that I could lose the password file, but I already keep it on three different devices; if I lose two at the same time, I’d still have one with the file. In the end, both KeePass and Bitwarden have their issues; for instance, if Bitwarden’s servers were attacked, the passwords in the cloud would be at risk (although I know they have some extra protections in case that happens).

I know that, but lately I’ve been preferring to use KeePass (plus I have terrible memories involving self-hosting; I don’t know anything about it and I can’t self-host anything, whether it’s due to a lack of knowledge or a lack of resources).

Man, I tried using Shelter, but I didn’t have a good first impression of it. I went to download it and saw that it seemed to have a pretty simple design, but what caught my eye was the fact that it was last updated almost 3 years ago. I hesitated for a moment but tried to ignore that and went ahead and installed it: when I went to use it, it bundled about 6 apps without me asking, the app I actually wanted to bundle stopped working, and the others it bundled without my permission became extremely slow. Not only that, but my whole phone in general got really sluggish, lagging and all that. I didn’t have a good experience with it and I don’t plan on using it again.

Tyy bro

that’s interesting; a good reason, I already had plans to remove Roblox from my phone, thanks for giving me more reasons (this time plausible reactions)

unfortunately there’s no LineageOS for my Motorola either, I really looked for many privacy-focused operating systems and none of them run on my Motorola

I didn’t know that, but security-wise, wouldn’t it still be better to use Aegis? 2FA is meant to provide extra security in case your password is compromised; this means that if someone gets into your password manager, they still wouldn’t be able to access your accounts because of the 2FA. But if you put your 2FA inside the password manager, that just makes it easier to access your accounts, right? Anyway, I found that information interesting, I had no idea. Thanks!

It’s not about the price; I’d buy a current Pixel if it were sold in my country, but importing one from somewhere else would be really expensive.

I can’t format my phone and install GrapheneOS since my phone is a Motorola, not a Google Pixel. I need Uber and the Play Store, there’s not much I can do about that. “roblox linda cringe” isn’t a good reason to uninstall it for privacy reasons.

KeePass is a password manager that doesn’t store your data in the cloud (like Bitwarden), meaning it doesn’t need internet access to work (though that doesn’t matter much to me, since I use a Motorola and can’t restrict its network access like I would if I could afford a Pixel and install Graphene). In KeePass, your passwords are kept in a file that is YOUR responsibility; as long as you have the file, all your passwords are safe (but of course, you also need the master password to access the others, and if you want, you can add other security methods to make it harder to get into your vault).

Chromium is a base provided by Google that’s used to build browsers, but people using it can just strip out the Google trackers from the code.

Brave is chromium* Chromium ≈ Google, but no = Google I switch for Fennec btw

I install ublock origin

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