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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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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If you don't want to be called out for completely dishonest and manipulative promotional tactics, cut it out. Stop going out of your way to seek conflict by spreading FUD, misinformation, inaccurate comparisons and totally bogus / fake claims. Try acting honestly instead.
From your actions, all you're doing is demonstrating that the project lacks ethics, not promoting it. I've shown others your posts and intend to write a post about the people spreading this kind of misinformation. You should fully expect to be called out by name for your actions.
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I deal with you folks spreading FUD and lying about these things every single day and I've more than enough of it. I have no tolerance left for it anymore. All if you had to do was not make dishonest attacks and simply leave me in peace to do privacy/security hardening work.