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  • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zipEnglish
    41·
    18 hours ago

    Google’s recent decision to omit Pixel device trees and compress the Pixel kernel source history has made our work in this area even more important. Going forward, Fairphone devices can be used as potential “reference devices” for open-source ROMs.

    Nice. Going to have to get a fairphone, now.

  • Turret3857@infosec.pubEnglish
    7·
    16 hours ago

    can’t wait for the FP7 so i can buy a fairphone. Unless they still.use a USB 2.0 USB port. In which case I will use my current phone until its dead in the water.

  • plateee@piefed.socialEnglish
    17·
    24 hours ago

    Does anyone know if Fairphone supports tap-to-pay options? I tried GrapheneOS and although most of it was fine, the inability to use Google wallet for tap to pay was a deal-breaker.

    My local credit Union doesn’t have an app that supports NFC, and since I’m based in the US, my options are relatively limited.

    Oh, and I don’t want to buy a smartwatch just so I can put Google wallet on that instead.

    • elmicha@feddit.orgEnglish
      3·
      5 hours ago

      buy a smartwatch just so I can put Google wallet on that instead.

      I think this wouldn’t help you anyway, because without Google wallet on the phone you can’t set it up on the watch.

      • Lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        48 minutes ago

        You can still set up a payment method on the watch via Google Wallet even if your phone is rooted. I did this for a year or so with my Pixel watch, before I decided to ditch that for my PineTime watch.

      • Sanguine@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        24·
        22 hours ago

        For real. Trading convenience for security is how we got here though so I really shouldn’t be surprised.

        • Waryle@jlai.luEnglish
          9·
          20 hours ago

          Cards on smartphones are more secure than the real cards. You need a pin on your phone to pay, with a card you can pay up to 50€ without any approval.

          Also, should a transaction be intercepted, the pirate would only acquire a Digital Account Number (DAN), which can be invalidated to disable the virtual card on the phone. You can still use the physical card and you can add another virtual card on the same, or on a different device.

          If a payment made with your physical card is intercepted, the pirate gets the Primary Account Number (PAN) instead. It means that you must disable the real card as well as any virtual card relying on it, and requires you to await a replacement from your bank, and switch all your payments to this new card.

          • Lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            9·
            17 hours ago

            Just because a higher level of security exists doesn’t completely invalidate the lower levels.

            That, and the physical card your phone uses for funding tap-to-pay is still vulnerable to that same attack, and not everywhere supports tap, and tap only works if you have a functioning device. Not carrying a backup form of payment is asinine.

            • Waryle@jlai.luEnglish
              4·
              9 hours ago

              “trading convenience for security” was what my comment responded to. Using your phone to pay is not compromising security in any way, quite the contrary actually, and I explained why.

              In France, everybody (barring most gas stations, even if I have seen some with tap-to-pay nowadays) can take tap-to-pay, even the remote mountain refuges I have been hiking to. You can even pay tolls and parking with it now.

              And somebody even more old-school than you would think you’re a fool not taking cash or checks with you as a backup for your card. I’ve been paying with my phone for years without any problem, I just take my card when I need to refuel my car or traveling, and most of the time I have to check my card pin code anyway on my phone because I never use it.

              And if my phone is off for some reason, well I have my watch.

              • Sanguine@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                2·
                1 hour ago

                You know fair enough on the counter point to my post. I didn’t specify this initially but what I was actually thinking is how one would stick with stock android out of convenience (needing tap pay, banking apps, etc) instead of switching to graphene and such.

      • idefix@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        8 hours ago

        I wish there was a fingerprint unlocking option in Garmin tap-to-pay instead of the 4-digit code that everybody can see clearly

  • br3d@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    21 hours ago

    I’m excited to see what people do with the Moments button, because at the moment I barely use it. It’d be great to find an imaginative use for it

    • 18107@aussie.zoneEnglish
      7·
      12 hours ago

      I’m using it for the phone torch. I’d love to try integrating it with home assistant to control my room lights.