Yesterday, the government sued the publisher of #PermanentRecord for—not kidding—printing it without giving the CIA and NSA a change to erase details of their classified crimes from the manuscript. Today, it is the best-selling book in the world:https://static.macmillan.com/static/holt/permanent-record-edward-snowden/uslinks.html …
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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
@bunniestudios a few years ago discussing some risks:https://www.tjoe.org/pub/direct-radio-introspection …56 replies 1,299 retweets 3,339 likesShow this thread -
Phone security has been something I've struggled with for a long time. I once spoke with
@VICE's@ShaneSmith30 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.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucRWyGKBVzo …32 replies 573 retweets 1,894 likesShow this thread -
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
@DanielMicay's@GrapheneOS 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@torproject network.74 replies 942 retweets 2,887 likesShow this thread -
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I think at the point you're removing microphones and speakers, you have to stop calling it a phone
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Yeah but every speaker is a microphone in reverse
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