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So, yes my cheap old phone had Android System Safety Core installed, I need to clean my parents' devices tomorrow. I learned about this spyware here in Mastodon.
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@wiert No idea if this is related, but just after the last Android update on my Samsung A53, almost every file on the SD card on the phone vanished. Years of stuff gone. Managed to get my photos back from cloud stuff, but so much more gone. I've now done the 'remove #AndroidSystemSafetyCore' thing, so maybe it'll leave my personal stuff the fuck alone going forward... Not confident though!
Android System SafetyCore è la nuova applicazione di sicurezza di Google che scansiona le immagini sul vostro dispositivo (e che Google ha installato senza chiedervelo)
La nuova applicazione di Google Android System SafetyCore scansiona localmente documenti e immagini e vi avvisa in caso di spam o nudità.
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@jwalzer I think that's another instance of an exaggerated panic.
It's not enabled by default, it only affects Google Messages, and it is an optional, well, opt-in feature for people to obscure potential nudes locally.
(I happily hate and vent on #Google all day long, but this panic is slightly ridiculous.)
Removed #AndroidSystemSafetyCore from my Android phone. Check check check sigh.
Doing my bit for other people's privacy by removing #AndroidSystemSafetyCore off their #Android phones.
After all, caring is sharing that #Google are sneaky bastards!
Fuck af, Google! Appen #AndroidSystemSafetyCore skanner alle billeder på din Android mobiltelefon såvel som alle indgående (via beskeder). #privatliv #google #android
Guide: Indstilliger > Apps > Android System SafeCore > Afinstaller (rul ned i bunden)
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@oudzeikwijf : nee (maar dat is wel iets vergelijkbaars - zie https://www.security.nl/posting/801994 en het plaatje hieronder - druk op Alt in het plaatje voor extra info).
ECHTER: naar verluidt (https://bsky.app/profile/grapheneos.org/post/3lhomjjnxl22y en https://security.googleblog.com/2024/10/5-new-protections-on-google-messages.html) zou de app "Android System SafetyCore", die ik naast "Android System Intelligence" zag, geen data met Google delen, maar:
a) ik geloof daar niks van,
b) je loopt een flink risico op valspositieven (mijn spambox zit vol met mail waar ik om gevraagd heb en er druppelt meuk in mijn inbox),
en c) als securityman "zoek ik het op" en wil niet dat iets of iemand mijn werk bemoeilijkt.
I've seen the post urging to remove #AndroidSystemSafetyCore showing up a dozen of times in my timeline. While it's sane to pay attention to what's running on the phone, it doesn't mean to blindly follow random advice?
See also: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/113969399311251057
GrapheneOS MastodonGrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social)The functionality provided by Google's new Android System SafetyCore app available through the Play Store is covered here:
https://security.googleblog.com/2024/10/5-new-protections-on-google-messages.html
Neither this app or the Google Messages app using it are part of GrapheneOS and neither will be, but GrapheneOS users can choose to install and use both. Google Messages still works without the new app.
If you have an #Android #phone, a new app that doesn't appear in your menu has been automatically and silently installed (or soon will be) by #Google. It is called #AndroidSystemSafetyCore and does exactly the same - scan all images on your device as well as all incoming ones (via messaging). The new spin is that it does so "to protect your #privacy".
You can uninstall this app safely via System -> Apps.
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Looks like #AndroidSystemSafetyCore is already on my Android device ... Maybe I should buy that @jolla handset after all ... #privacy
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@Tutanota
Uninstall #AndroidSystemSafetyCore and also rate it with just 1 star on play store.
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Quoting a Mastodon post by GrapheneOS:
"The app doesn't provide client-side scanning used to report things to Google or anyone else. It provides on-device machine learning models usable by applications to classify content as being spam, scams, malware, etc. This allows apps to check content locally without sharing it with a service and mark it with warnings for users."
GrapheneOS MastodonGrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social)The app doesn't provide client-side scanning used to report things to Google or anyone else. It provides on-device machine learning models usable by applications to classify content as being spam, scams, malware, etc. This allows apps to check content locally without sharing it with a service and mark it with warnings for users.
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@nullagent : it was on my Google Pixel 6 Pro smartphone.
I installed it less than 2 hours ago (https://infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStraten/113969482569037175) after reading Tuta's (@Tutanota ) toot in https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/113969191214363432.
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@Tutanota : it was already installed on my Google Pixel 6 Pro - without anybody asking whether I agree with this shit.
Just uninstalled it.
Zojuist uninstalled (Android, Pixel 6)
Meer info: https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/113969191214363432
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of course we all know where this is going
you can uninstall it *for now* but likely in the next major version it'll be built into the core OS and not listed as an app you can remove (assuming some other form isn't already there about which I'm not already aware anyway)