# Could This Be the End of F-Droid?｜This Week in Privacy #21 (Oct 3, 2025) **URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/could-this-be-the-end-of-f-droid-this-week-in-privacy-21-oct-3-2025/31868 **Category:** Livestreams **Created:** 2025-10-03T05:00:13Z **Posts:** 11 ## Post 1 by @jordan — 2025-10-03T05:00:13Z Join us Invalid date for This Week in Privacy #21, to catch up on the latest _Privacy Guides_ updates and to discuss trending news in the privacy space. > **[Could This Be the End of F-Droid?｜This Week in Privacy #21 (Oct 3, 2025)](https://www.youtube.com/live/N05qBac0VHM)** > > Welcome to Episode 21 of This Week in Privacy. F-Droid says that Google's new side loading changes could kill the project, the UK government is asking Apple ... During the livesteam we’ll answer viewer questions. If you have a question for us, please leave a comment in this forum thread or the YouTube chat. Members please leave your questions for us and we will try to get them answered first during the livestream :smiley: --- ## Post 2 by @anon57862721 — 2025-10-03T08:30:14Z Suggestion: Since you’ll be covering other news items related to tech and privacy too, if you can also post even a semi complete list of those topics, we can ask questions about those as well and not just the titular question. Of course I know we can still ask any question nonetheless but knowing the other topics/news items you’ll be covering would surely help and provide context for the episode in advance. Think about it. It would also let us know what’s in store for us in the episode. Thanks! --- ## Post 3 by @jordan — 2025-10-03T10:05:35Z --- ## Post 4 by @system — 2025-10-03T20:45:50Z --- ## Post 5 by @KevPham — 2025-10-03T21:16:40Z Cosplaying as an audience member just for this time :stuck_out_tongue: Anyways… One common advice I was told to tell journalists was to NEVER enable sideloading if they have android phones. Do you think this is accurate? How would you balance “security” and “privacy” for folks who aren’t tech literate but may want to reduce their tracking on Android? Would these people locked into the Google ecosystem if they own an android phone and are targeted by state actors? Do they need to ignore corporate surveillance to protect themselves against government spyware? --- ## Post 6 by @KevPham — 2025-10-03T21:31:32Z We see OEMs like Novacustom and Purism introduce “anti-interdiction” methods like placing colored/glittery tape on the screws and communicating with you directly over Proton Mail as the shipping process starts. What are your thoughts on these methods? Is there a cheaper method of getting laptops that are less vulnerable to supply chain attacks? Or is this something out of the control for normal people. --- ## Post 7 by @formerlyhelloecho — 2025-10-03T21:37:42Z Jordan, in my view, the quantum‑computers video is one of the best videos to date at Privacy Guides. Will you all recommend the Accrescent app store in the futre after it comes out of alpha? --- ## Post 8 by @privacyisconsent — 2025-10-03T21:40:32Z Signal are looking to improve on their dependence on Intel SGX (for Secure Value Recovery) by doing threshold key recovery from several vendor enclaves (AWS, Intel, AMD) for example. See [Key to Simplicity: Squeezing the hassle out of encryption key recovery | Juicebox](https://juicebox.xyz/blog/key-to-simplicity-squeezing-the-hassle-out-of-encryption-key-recovery) & [GitHub - signalapp/SecureValueRecovery2](https://github.com/signalapp/SecureValueRecovery2?tab=readme-ov-file#secure-value-recovery-service-v23) for info. --- ## Post 9 by @privacyisconsent — 2025-10-03T22:05:45Z You’ve maybe already considered it but what do you think about a Matrix room for This Week in Privacy Q & A? Only because it is the main real-time comms platform in the PrivacyGuides community and some may not have Google/YouTube accounts. --- ## Post 10 by @username-is-not — 2025-11-07T07:31:24Z Oh, it goes without saying that Android can only be considered even somewhat-secure if there aren’t any Google Services on it; so, it would have to be “vanilla” as a prerequisite, 100% --- ## Post 11 by @anon39816623 — 2025-11-07T17:27:57Z You mean private, not secure.