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.
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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.
Up until today, I've seen no dishonest marketing / misinformation from Pine64 / PinePhone. That's a sharp contrast from Purism. However, I see them supporting your dishonest / misleading posts and that definitely has an impact on how I see it. Sad, disappointing and predictable.
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I'm sorry, I don't have the context of what you're saying about "the last couple of days". This is the first interaction I have seen about this, I do not manage the UBports account. Please point me to other where this happens? I will talk with the them something came across wrong
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