Firewalls are a great way to tell if new apps are secrely installed
Btw what is the key verifier thing?
So glad I moved to GrapheneOS last month.
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There are functional firewall apps for android? Is Rethink good?
Yes, it also let you change your DNS and block websites. There's also invizible pro which also adds tor and i2p but rethink have a better UI.
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Provides a single process that can be used by all message apps so that they don't need to implement backdoors into all of them?
Worried I'm getting a bit too paranoid, but...
Why backdoor the messaging apps when you can just monitor the entire OS?
Having control over the OS doesn't help if the OS doesn't understand the app's data.
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