Full stack developer and privacy advocate. I like to keep the mentality, if you can program one language well, then you can program in any language!

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  • Imagine living in China,
    where the government is able to request data of each company in their country.

    Imagine that China would setup an AI/LLM, to feed all private chat data into it,
    and automatically flagging opposition of the government regime.

    Imagine a white van appearing in front of your house and disappearing into a concentration camp because you got flagged after expressing your opposition to the government to your mate in a private chat.

    All collected data can be abused like that,
    or by other means (E.g. a country at war gets hacked, which could lead to leaking critical private information on political/defensive decisions).

    To me the question is not if data collected on you will be abused, but rather when will it be abused?

    Just having it stored somewhere imposes risks.
















    1. Shizuku can run as root,
      and has some advantages compared to giving apps root directly (e.g. it’s faster)
    2. LSPosed is indeed archived however it still works. It is the continuation of XPosed, a framework which allows modules to hook into functions of applications, to run custom code before/after them. These kind of modules allow for additional modification options which are not possible with normal Magisk modules.
    3. CorePatch makes it easy to install modified applications over stock ones, without needing to uninstall / wiping the apps data. Just make sure to not install modified versions of system apps and you should be fine.
    4. It’s mostly used to recover yourself from bootloops when testing out new Magisk/Xposed modules, since if the phone bootloops, you can still disable the module that caused it from your custom recovery.
    5. It can make extended use of root + xposed, allowing it to auto-hook into applications, without needing to patch / install modified applications
    6. Very advanced audio tweaking software, can make 20$ headphones sound like 200$ headphones with the right tweaking.
    7. Is an Xposed module to turn apps dark which do not natively support dark themes, still works nicely, however not on all apps.