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Re: PSA: Fossify Simple Mobile Tools FOSS replacement apps

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Maria Sophia wrote:
>  <https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Calendar>
>  <https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Contacts>
>  <https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Messages>
>  <https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Phone>

True privacy isn't a better lock; it's not giving them a door to open.

Some people don't realize that on a standard smartphone, their contacts are
stored in a centralized, unprotected database. If they give a social media
app or a utility permission to see their contacts, it's not just looking,
it's often vacuuming up their mother's home address, their boss's private
cell number and those notes they kept about their gate codes for DoorDash.

Even "responsible" companies, who do hashing, can't protect your contacts
because hashing works great for random things, but dialing is not random.

The short string of phone numbers have low entropy.

Contact hashing for 'responsible' sites like WA has to be deterministic.
There's no salting involved (AFAIK).

Even if there were a 'secret salt', it could easily be figured out.

A company can pre-calculate the rainbow table for every single possible
phone number but the social graph is the real prize hidden in contacts.

Given privacy is impossible with anything in the contacts sqlite database,
note that the combination of 4 tools below are designed for privacy.

Fossify:
 a. contacts
 b. messages
 c. phone
 d. calendar

The contacts are stored locally and the dialer works with them so you can
still see who is calling, and the messages too, as is your calendar.

They don't even have internet permissions to see, keep or sell your data.
-- 
Only one in a million people truly understand heavily marketed products.
That's because very few people have the background to question the myths.

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PSA: Fossify Simple Mobile Tools FOSS replacement apps Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-04-30 21:07 -0600
  Re: PSA: Fossify Simple Mobile Tools FOSS replacement apps Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-05-02 00:04 -0600
    Re: PSA: Fossify Simple Mobile Tools FOSS replacement apps Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-05-02 17:49 -0600
      Re: PSA: Fossify Simple Mobile Tools FOSS replacement apps Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-05-03 23:56 -0600
    Re: PSA: Fossify Simple Mobile Tools FOSS replacement apps Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2026-05-03 14:40 +0200
      Re: PSA: Fossify Simple Mobile Tools FOSS replacement apps Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-05-03 14:16 -0600
        Re: PSA: Fossify Simple Mobile Tools FOSS replacement apps Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2026-05-04 09:12 +0200
          Re: PSA: Fossify Simple Mobile Tools FOSS replacement apps Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2026-05-04 11:56 +0100
            Re: PSA: Fossify Simple Mobile Tools FOSS replacement apps Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2026-05-04 17:02 +0200
            Re: PSA: Fossify Simple Mobile Tools FOSS replacement apps Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-05-04 11:08 -0600
  Re: PSA: Fossify Simple Mobile Tools FOSS replacement apps Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2026-05-03 14:37 +0200
    Re: PSA: Fossify Simple Mobile Tools FOSS replacement apps Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-05-03 13:57 -0600

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