It seems to me that OnlyFans takes several steps that make it easier for police and prosecutors to do their job, some of which are detailed in the article. What additional steps do you think they should take?

It is unfortunate that manufacturers, Google, and app makers have all engaged in behaviors that make running a third-party OS less viable for most people.

When approached for comment by Newsweek, Rittenhouse simply replied: “That Newsweek is gay.”

Can we stop giving this little shit attention now?

That’s true, but hardware drivers are a much smaller attack surface area.

That seems like a concern for the IT department of a large organization, but not something end users should care about.

My Pixel 4a has LineageOS on it, and is installing an update from two days ago right now.

The main thing I’m getting from the article is that adults who try to profit from abusing children on OnlyFans get arrested.

That may technically be true, but it’s currently very normalized. Do we actually want to denormalize it? Should the government know about every trivial transaction?

The alternative is safeStorage, which uses the operating system’s credential management facility if available. On Mac OS and sometimes Linux, this means another process running in the user’s account is prevented from accessing it. Windows doesn’t have a protection against that, but all three systems do protect the credentials if someone copies data offline.

Signal should change this, but it isn’t a major security flaw. If an attacker can copy your home directory or run arbitrary code on your device, you’re already in big trouble.

You’d need write access to the user’s home directory, but doing something with desktop notifications on modern Linux is as simple as

dbus-monitor "interface='org.freedesktop.Notifications'" | grep --line-buffered "member=Notify\|string" | [insert command here]

Replacing the Signal app for that user also doesn’t require elevated privileges unless the home directory is mounted noexec.