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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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DivestOS ends development (www.divestos.org)

submitted 1 day ago by kixik@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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This is so so sad, :( I've been using Mull for quite some time and recently Hypatia. I guess time to move to fennec since I doubt there's a fork in the horizon, :(

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Antivirus on Android? How does that work? Warden seems a better idea to me.

[–] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

Hypathia uses the same method as clam-av. It hashes all the files and compares it to a known database of malware. It's a lot faster than whatever Avast is using.