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Unless you use Graphene :)

that's what im going to do... 👀 not sure if it's compatible with my phone.

Only runs on Google Pixel phones, /e/os is a degoogled but less secure alternative

I use graphene too :)

thanks.

#GrapheneOS only works with #Google #Pixel. This is proprietary AI hardware with access to microphone, camera, location and internet. We don't know what it does, but theoretically it would be possible to route data past the operating system at hardware level (#M2M profiles in #eSIM).

Sure, it is possible, but that is true for any phone. That question comes up on a regular basis. Despite a lot of close scrutiny, nobody has ever confirmed that Pixel hardware has any backdoors or connectivity that bypasses the OS.

To find out, you would have to be able to read the encrypted 5G radio traffic. And no one has probably managed that yet.

It was not for older phones without eSIM. And I think it's dangerous to believe that you can escape Google's data collection business model with proprietary Google hardware.

Not really, there are a lot of tools in the security space to investigate chips and other low level hardware activity. Lots of companies do that for their own employees. Many government departments of multiple countries also do that. Many of the same tools are also available to "opensource" cyber security folks. Also, they make so much money with regular users that investing on specialized hardware and running the risk of being found just to get the data from a small number of people that root their devices is way too costly compared to the potential profits from that data.

Then we agree that these potential #vulnerabilities exist, they just haven't been proven yet? That's why #Snowden also removes the microphones and there are products like NitroPhone with optional removed microphones, sensors and cameras. It is just important to me that people are aware of this and are not lulled into a false sense of #security.

That explains why they think Linux doesn't actually work that well. Only thing that works better is OpenBSD, but that can't game like Linux. OpenBSD I would put as far down and to the right on this chart as it gets. Even the OpenBSD devs don't understand the political implications of their apolitical stance: a principled stance on using the BSD license and adgerence to extreme UNIX philosophy are basically complete anarchy.

That's why we use Nostr.

In summary: I use NOSTR because I'm a soft Malaka and I want to toughen up so that I can be digitally ready to not fight losing battles against walled gardens.