Surveillance-proof phone?

[sirhrmechanic]

Ok… let’s forget for a second that this is Erik Prince. And that the OS, etc is made in Israel… that spies on everyone. And that the source is OAN (at lest more believeable than CNN)….

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But comments about the technology, the market (huge?) and the possibilities.

Seems like this is a huge potential opportunity for some techies.

Will USG even allow? Or call it a weapon and send people to jail for it like they did with encryption algorithms in the 1990’s?

Sirhr

 

[mikeb127]

There’s other options like grapheneOS and a few others that may be easier and more practical? At least in the short term……

Most of the problem with adoption of these so far is that while people don’t really like Uncle Zuck watching them all the time, it doesn’t upset them enough that they would sacrifice any convenience to avoid it. Own worst enemy and all that….

 

[shoobe01]

Seriously?

"Protect from cancel culture" makes this obviously a joke/scam.

Rest of it: only under very narrow definitions of not being snooped upon, if you spend lots of money and time. You can't buy a magic device, unless you use it very carefully also.

Remember they could wiretap /phones/? Like, the ones that plug into the wall and you spin a dial?

They can tell where you are (with surprisingly good accuracy now) with a featurephone or even just on a computer/tablet with WiFi. Multilateration is rather good, has been better than 800 yd CEP for 20+ years.

But at least there are enough cameras, enough other people with phones, ANPR and more that it's increasingly implausible to be simply not visible, and we're on the verge of not having your phone is itself suspicious, a way of being tracked as the odd man out, and I bet not far from admissable in court like how destroying evidence is itself evidence.

 

[MtnGhost]

None of this is news, but good luck finding a mobile handset with 100% open source basebands / hardware-level firmware. Highly proprietary, no direct access to end users, and they can provide out of band over the air access to the handset (can't be disabled). LTE / 5G also has surveillance built into the specs, and you wouldn't find anything without that support that has an FCC ID issued to them.