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In recent interviews, I've gotten questions over if or how I use a smartphone. They're so dangerous for someone like me, so it's quite difficult to give an in-depth answer. But I published a paper with a few years ago discussing some risks:
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Phone security has been something I've struggled with for a long time. I once spoke with 's about how it's possible to physically remove internal microphones and cameras from a phone, but even that only mitigates a portion of the threat.
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But as long as your phone is turned on, even with "location permissions" disabled, the radios in the phone that connect it to all the nice things you like are screaming into the air, reporting your presence to nearby cell towers, which then create records that are kept forever.
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Software is equally important. The iOS and Android operating systems that run on nearly every smartphone conceal uncountable numbers of programming flaws, known as security vulnerabilities, that mean common apps like iMessage or web browsers become dangerous: you can be hacked.
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If I were configuring a smartphone today, I'd use 's as the base operating system. I'd desolder the microphones and keep the radios (cellular, wifi, and bluetooth) turned off when I didn't need them. I would route traffic through the network.
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We are nearly exactly that with Ubuntu Touch on PinePhone... maybe the best viable option you can buy today.
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Making dishonest comparisons and misleading people about the state of privacy/security is a bad look. It's a clear pattern for the people involved in your project, which is quite sad. Maybe promote your work without dishonest comparisons to others doing something much different.
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(1/2) How is it dishonest? The fact is that the pinephone will have physical kill switches and separated modem. And with no binary blobs using malinline kernel. With full open source gnu/linux stack.
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(2/2) Sure the project have differences, but its a fair comparison as both provide privacy/security that one should expect from a phone today. Don't put others down to make your project look better.
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You're the folks putting other people down by making false and misleading comparisons. The unprovoked attacks and misinformation are not appreciated. You make completely bogus privacy/security claims and mislead people about other projects/products and also your own. It's scummy.
How about you folks take a step back and stop jumping into threads about my work with your false claims, misleading comparisons and dishonesty? I haven't done anything to you. I've never said anything about it. If you want me to start posting about it and your behavior I can.
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I don't have anything against PinePhone. My problem is with the dishonesty and misinformation / attacks that I've seen from developers over the past couple of days. I don't know what your issue is. You benefit from my work and ship upstreamed portions and yet attack it.
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That is not true, nobody made criticism of you project, only of Android as is shipped by Google and hardware vendors which is not what you're doing. This was already explained to you, but you are only interested in insulting other people and make acusations to entire communities
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No, that's absolutely not what you did. You're continuing to be incredibly dishonest and manipulative. You've gone out of your way to try to cause harm and attack others. You can keep trying to project that onto others but it's completely untrue. It's you insulting others work.
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