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Could This Be the End of F-Droid?
Episode 21

Could This Be the End of F-Droid?

This Week in Privacy · Jonah Aragon

October 4, 20251h 42m

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Show Notes

Our top stories this week:

  • F-Droid warns that Google’s mandatory developer registration would destroy the project.
  • Google confirms that there will be free and paid tiers for developer registration. However, FOSS developers may need to pay after a certain number of downloads.
  • Apple receives another technical capabilities notice by the UK to implement a backdoor into iCloud’s Advanced Data Protection Program. This time, it will only target British users.
  • AMD and Intel CPU were discovered to be vulnerable against physical attacks. The companies refuse to implement a fix as they are “out-of-scope”.

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