200 sats \ 6 replies \ @kilianbuhn 17 Jul 2022 \ parent \ on: Ask SN: How to use Bitcoin if it gets banned bitcoin
Can it tho? If you use FOSS software or use up to date software you're safe.
If you use a 3 year old android phone it's kind of your own fault.
If your premise is that we don't have safe computing hardware ... that's kind of dystopian and pessimistic. In the same way you could say you could die in a car accident tomorrow and therefore give up everything right now - same logic.
If you use a 3 year old android phone it's kind of your own fault. You shouldn't asume everyone has access to last year's technology, I don't see that as 'dystopian and pessimistic' but something already real in most places.
If Bitcoin gets globally banned and only a bunch of first-worlders can afford to use it, it means it failed as a currency. On the other hand, if anyone with enough curiosity can use it even in black markets, we won.
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People not getting OS security updates anymore is a serious problem anyway. No matter if Bitcoin or traditional finance.
Be sure that all of those twitter bots and a sgnificant chunk of all likes on Instagram are just bots on old Android phones. We have not seen a mass theft of Bitcoin wallets worldwide. This is probably due to ARM chips having secure enclaves which are really hard to crack even when you already have malware on the victim.
Pray to God that we never see a headline about such a hack. And that free ROMs become really mainstream before that happens. And that Samsung/OnePlus/Sony deliver phones with 10 years of security updates soon. Otherwise the third world will be at a serious disadvantage.
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Can it tho?
yes.
If you use FOSS software or use up to date software you're safe.
NO. Stop being naive. Almost every Software or even Hardware has backdoors.
If your premise is that we don't have safe computing hardware ... that's kind of dystopian and pessimistic.
indeed. i have no solution for this unfortunately
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I think** you** are naive. Have you any knowledge about the cyberpunk scene? Have you made friends in the torrenting/darkwrb community? Do you know how powerful high-level software solutions can be? Because I do.
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your superduper darkweb software does not matter if your OS is backdoored
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Then go live in your cave with no internet lol.
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