perhaps some techies can comment, but my understanding with cell phones is, worrying about the OS for privacy is akin to worrying about votes on a dominion machine. every's phone's baseband is closed source and is most likely the first means of reading everything on your phone, it does not matter what OS you run
perhaps, i wouldn't put it past the alphabet agencies to do just that. there are phones that hardware separate the baseband and memory though such as the pinephone. i believe @nekroziz uses one, and he may have some insight into this.
That is correct. The baseband, which is like the firmware that runs the modem, is closed source. The new basebands probably have all the spyware they need since OS'es can be changed on phones now. They can still track your location with the cell service providers. You would need your own closed network like the cartels have in Mexico
bingo. thats why i gave up going with phones with "privacy" os. the same thing exists on pcs/servers where the closed source management engine has full access to the memory and effectively, makes encryption useless.
Which is why Russia decided to stop using Intel/x86, because they know the US Govt can compel big tech to give them backdoors/access to any system with a subpoena, the same way they shut down Snowden's previous email provider and forced him to provide the encryption key with a court order
perhaps some techies can comment, but my understanding with cell phones is, worrying about the OS for privacy is akin to worrying about votes on a dominion machine. every's phone's baseband is closed source and is most likely the first means of reading everything on your phone, it does not matter what OS you run
perhaps, i wouldn't put it past the alphabet agencies to do just that. there are phones that hardware separate the baseband and memory though such as the pinephone. i believe @nekroziz uses one, and he may have some insight into this.
yes this phone would be one that i'd use if its weren't $800. pinephone does pretty much all of this at $150. however, it is beta at best
That is correct. The baseband, which is like the firmware that runs the modem, is closed source. The new basebands probably have all the spyware they need since OS'es can be changed on phones now. They can still track your location with the cell service providers. You would need your own closed network like the cartels have in Mexico
bingo. thats why i gave up going with phones with "privacy" os. the same thing exists on pcs/servers where the closed source management engine has full access to the memory and effectively, makes encryption useless.
Which is why Russia decided to stop using Intel/x86, because they know the US Govt can compel big tech to give them backdoors/access to any system with a subpoena, the same way they shut down Snowden's previous email provider and forced him to provide the encryption key with a court order