#Search-Engines vs #Google

Smartphone mit Open Source Linux

Mit Schalter geht doch!

In unserer und der Publikation über die Probleme nach der Anschaffung eines Handys hatten wir eine Reihe von Forderungen aufgelistet. Darunter war in verschiedenen Zusammenhängen immer wieder die Frage ob dieser oder jener Kommunikationskanal wirklich ausgeschaltet ist (Wir fordern echte Schalter! )- Software kann einem einiges vorspielen und der Datenhunger der Internetgiganten ist unersättlich.

Nun soll das Wirklichkeit werden: Der chinesische Hersteller Pine64 will mit seinem PinePhone, einem reinen Linux-Phone, auf den Markt kommen. Bereits in diesem Jahr wird das Gerät an Entwickler ausgeliefert und soll Ende des Jahres oder spätestens 2020 für 149$ für Käufer erhältlich sein. Alle technischen Details, wie LTE, Speicher, Bildschirm und Kamera sind hier beschrieben.

Mit seinem Linux-Betriebssystem ist man auch den Zwang zu Google-Diensten, wie Browser und Play Store los. Vielen Eingriffen in die eigene Privatsphäre kann man damit aus dem Wege gehen. Das Schönste ist jedoch der (sicher nicht nur) von uns gewünschte Einbau von Hardwareschaltern, die auf Knopfdruck Bluetooth, WLAN, LTE, Kamera und Lautsprecher (wirklich!) stilllegen.

Pine64 will außerdem demnächst eine Pro-Version des Pinebook sowie ein Tablet und eine Kamera anbieten. Auch das PineTab wird ein BSD/Linux-Tablet sein und im Cover eine Tastatur enthalten - auch das eine (unserer) Forderung von Menschen mit dicken, trockenen oder ungeschickten Fingern. 😉

Mehr dazu bei https://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/26759/pine64-k%C3%BCndigt-open-source-phone-notebook-und-tablet-an.html
und https://www.aktion-freiheitstattangst.org/de/articles/6793-20190214-smartphone-mit-open-source-linux.htm

#Smartphone #Handy #Linux #Verbraucherdatenschutz #Datenschutz #Datensicherheit #Ergonomie #OpenSource #Transparenz #Informationsfreiheit #Anonymisierung #Pine64 #Schalter #Google #Android

Quoted from Why pick on #Huawei when all advanced technologies, including those from the #US, carry security risks? #TheStarOnline http://bit.ly/2TJVq9W
"Anyone supposing Huawei products are #spying on them or that they are a #securityrisk hasn't given any thought to the #technology already around them.

#Apple and #Samsung #smartphones, voice assistants like #Siri and #Alexa, #Facebook and #Google, among so many others, collect and store and even #share #endless amounts of data about us whenever we activate them.

Those big tech companies often also work with #governments and #militaries and it's anyone's guess what gets passed on, as #whistleblower #EdwardSnowden so helpfully revealed in his leak of #UnitedStates #spyagency #documents. To trust one and not the other, simply because one is #Western and the other #Chinese, is nothing but #xenophobia and, dare I say, #racist. "

Google and IBM still trying desperately to move cloud market share needle

When it comes to the cloud market, there are few known knowns. For instance, we know that AWS is the market leader with around 32 percent of market share. We know Microsoft is far back in second place…
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When it comes to the cloud market, there are few known knowns. For instance, we know that [1]AWS is the market leader with around 32 percent of market share. We know Microsoft is far back in second place with around 14 percent, the only other company in double digits. We also know that IBM and Google are wallowing in third or fourth place, depending on whose numbers you look at, stuck in single digits. The market keeps expanding, but these two major companies never seem to get a much bigger piece of the pie.

Neither company is satisfied with that, of course. [2]Google so much so that it moved on from [3]Diane Greene at the end of last year, [4]bringing in Oracle veteran Thomas Kurian to lead the division out of the doldrums. Meanwhile, IBM made an even bigger splash, [5]plucking Red Hat from the market for $34 billion in October.

This week, the two companies made some more noise, letting the cloud market know that they are not ceding the market to anyone. For [6]IBM, which is holding its big IBM Think conference this week in San Francisco, it involved [7]opening up Watson to competitor clouds. For a company like IBM, this was a huge move, akin to when Microsoft started building apps for iOS. It was an acknowledgement that working across platforms matters, and that if you want to gain market share, you had better start thinking outside the box.

While becoming cross-platform compatible isn’t exactly a radical notion in general, it most certainly is for a company like IBM, which if it had its druthers and a bit more market share, would probably have been content to maintain the status quo. But if the majority of your customers are pursuing a multi-cloud strategy, it might be a good idea for you to jump on the bandwagon — and that’s precisely what IBM has done by opening up access to Watson across clouds in this fashion.

Clearly [8]buying Red Hat was about a hybrid cloud play, and if IBM is serious about that approach, and for $34 billion, it had better be — it would have to walk the walk, not just talk the talk. As IBM Watson CTO and chief architect Ruchir Puri [9]told my colleague Frederic Lardinois about the move, “It’s in these hybrid environments, they’ve got multiple cloud implementations, they have data in their private cloud as well. They have been struggling because the providers of AI have been trying to lock them into a particular implementation that is not suitable to this hybrid cloud environment.” This plays right into the Red Hat strategy, and I’m betting you’ll see more of this approach in other parts of the product line from IBM this year. (Google also acknowledged this when it announced [10]a hybrid strategy of its own last year.)

[11]IBM is betting the farm on Red Hat, and it better not mess up

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Meanwhile, [13]Thomas Kurian had his coming-out party at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco earlier today. [14]Bloomberg reports that he announced a plan to increase the number of salespeople and train them to understand specific verticals, ripping a page straight from the playbook of his former employer, Oracle.

He suggested that his company would be more aggressive in pursuing traditional enterprise customers, although I’m sure his predecessor, Diane Greene, wasn’t exactly sitting around counting on inbound marketing interest to grow sales. In fact, rumor had it that she wanted to pursue government contracts much more aggressively than the company was willing to do. Now it’s up to Kurian to grow sales. Of course, given that Google [15]doesn’t report cloud revenue it’s hard to know what growth would look like, but perhaps if it has more success it will be more forthcoming.

[16]Google looks to former Oracle exec Thomas Kurian to move cloud business along

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As Bloomberg’s Shira Ovide tweeted today, it’s one thing to turn to the tried and true enterprise playbook, but that doesn’t mean that executing on that approach is going to be simple, or that Google will be successful in the end.

To be honest, all of these suggestions for broadening Google Cloud are from the obvious enterprise sales playbook, but it doesnʼt mean they are easy.

 — Shira Ovide (@ShiraOvide) [18]February 12, 2019

These two companies obviously desperately want to alter their cloud fortunes, which have been fairly dismal to this point. The moves announced today are clearly part of a broader strategy to move the market share needle, but whether they can or the market positions have long ago hardened remains to be seen.

[19]The cloud continues to grow in leaps and bounds, but it’s still AWS’s world

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Google warns about two iOS zero-days 'exploited in the wild'

iOS users are advised to update to iOS 12.1.4; release which also fixes infamous FaceTime bug.
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HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19145683
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A Google top security engineer has revealed today that hackers have been launching attacks against iPhone users using two iOS vulnerabilities. The attacks have happened before Apple had a chance to release [1]iOS 12.1.4 today --meaning the two vulnerabilities are what security experts call "zero-days."

The revelation came in a tweet from Ben Hawkes, team leader at Project Zero --Googleʼs elite security team. Hawkes did not reveal under what circumstances the two zero-days have been used.

At the time of writing, it is unclear if the zero-days have been used for mundane cyber-crime operations or in more targeted cyber-espionage campaigns.

The two zero-days have the CVE identifiers of CVE-2019-7286 and CVE-2019-7287.

According to the Apple iOS 12.1.4 security changelog, CVE-2019-7286 impacts the iOS Foundation framework --one of the core components of the iOS operating system.

An attacker can exploit a memory corruption in the iOS Foundation component via a malicious app to gain elevated privileges.

The second zero-day, CVE-2019-72867, impacts I/O Kit, another iOS core framework that handles I/O data streams between the hardware and the software.

An attacker can exploit another memory corruption in this framework via a malicious app to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.

Apple credited "an anonymous researcher, Clement Lecigne of Google Threat Analysis Group, Ian Beer of Google Project Zero, and Samuel Groß of Google Project Zero" for discovering both vulnerabilities.

Neither an Apple or Google spokesperson responded to requests for comment from ZDNet before this articleʼs publication. It is highly unlikely that the two companies will comment on the issue at this time, as both would like to keep the zero-day specifics to a minimum and prevent other threat actors from gaining insight into how the zero-days work.

iPhone users are advised to update their devices to iOS 12.1.4 as soon as possible. This release [2]also fixes the infamous FaceTime bug that allowed users to eavesdrop on others using group FaceTime calls.

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