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“Management has lost all moral compass”: Android's head of security slams Google's door (europe.pub)

submitted 3 days ago by cm0002@europe.pub to c/privacy@programming.dev

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The reasons of his departure? Military AI, surveillance of Europeans, ethical principles erased.

René Mayrhofer has been protecting the security of your Android smartphone for nine years. He just quit Google for a reason that directly concerns you: the company signed a deal allowing the Pentagon to use its AI for classified operations, and the man who secured your smartphone believes these tools will “probably be used against” European citizens.

Here is the rest of article in French: https://www.lesnumeriques.com/societe-numerique/la-direction-a-perdu-toute-boussole-morale-le-chef-de-la-securite-d-android-claque-la-porte-de-google-n257431.html

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[–] FiniteBanjo@programming.dev 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I bet something he didn't mention is he probably used a privacy distro on his personal device, and since Google no longer provides the Device Tree in ASOP it's left completely insecure, unable to update.