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I find it hard to believe that Google phones wouldn’t have a hardware±SIM backdoor no matter what ROM is installed.

This technology already was in place on Intel ME desktops using a operating system on a chip called MINIX

That and phones far exceed surveillance perfection and device count vs PC.

Anything not RISCV and with a binary blob is a vector.

My Dream would be that they split Mozilla into Foundations for each product and collaborate like Firefox Foundation which has nothing to do with advertising division at HQ

GoodGuyChina

Would you like to donate to the Cut Child Hunger in Half fund?

Plot twist: Literally

I’m pretty sure my Arches with PipeWire audio don’t have it if that’s of any use to you.

I have used PulseAudio and PipeWire for years and the last few years have preffered the latter when installing all the optional dependencies.

Then again if it ain’t broke 🤷‍♂️

It may be a little too late but if you have a chance to use a feature like btrfs snapshots (+time shift) it can be a game changer.

Any time you need to do something risky to the OS you can just snapshot before like installing 1000 packages, or Nvidia driver update, you can just revert to the old working version by swapping the names on the snapshot and is subvolume.

If you dislike telemetry,

Audacity => Tenacity

Firefox => LibreWolf or FireDragon (GraudaLinux default, good in telemetry respects IIRC)

You may like btop, Mission Control,

Avoid any terminals and editors that advertise as “AI” – there were some big ones recently but the community thankfully overall was like nah.

Get some decent browser extensions, ublockorigin, privacy badger, libredirect

some people like to pihole their network, opensense/pfsense/ddwrt router is nice to have

AVAHI broadcasts your services on the LAN IIRC.

Obviously vscode has telemetry, if you use that try vscodium IIRC, personally I use neither but that’s just me.

Even owning Smart devices and having them always plugged in may potentially be a vector, Rob did a good breakdown on how this is achieved.

https://odysee.com/@RobBraxmanTech:6/radio:64

Did you know that your IOT devices are secretly communicating with each other? This includes IOT devices that are not in your home. Did you know that what your IOT devices do may be transmitted to third parties? Did you know that your TV may also have the capability and may currently be transmitting your activity far and wide?

There are secret communications occurring between IOT devices using protocols like Bluetooth LE, Zigbee, Thread, 802.15, and LoRa that you likely didn’t expect or was not explained when you bought these devices.

Just like Amazon Echo has been conscripted to work with the Amazon Sidewalk Mesh network, other networks are in operation

I think your best bet is to assume that everything you don’t control is a vector.

The modems run binary blobs you don’t control.

A standard modem with a singular hookup to a router is as good as it gets. Maybe you are contemplating the modem as a combo – if it is also a router and wifi, you can bet the ISP sees that as “Their Network” and not “Your Network” and any WiFi capabilities could be used to reverse hack insecure devices theoretically like smart TV or IoT.

You could put the modem router combo in a Faraday cage to dampen the signal theoretically.

That may not be answers to the query but I think the smart short answer is: yes, unless verified no.

Edit: to go further, theoretically they can capture any traffic and if they get the encryption key decrypt the traffic.

Or maybe with a quantum computer decrypt with ease. And if you have any leaks or there are backdoors then who knows what the consequences could be, cough cough xz

Block the ISP DNS and use your own on the router level.

You could look into wireguard or VPN on the router level.

Probably OpenSense.

As long ad your device has a IMEI though not like it matters.

There’s probably a million other things you would need too. Make sure your browser doesn’t use its own DNS, eg, Firefox + CloudFlare by default.

I assume you could theoretically split traffic up over multiple ISP’s making it a PITA to try to make sense of.

Also obviously separate trusted & untrusted devices, WiFi and wired into separate networks.

The average person doesn’t even have a IQ of 100 and we are in a decline. Let it sink in.

Fdroid literally says fennec tracks you under “anti-features”, did I miss something?

So they’re going to ask the TV manufacturers to install the ban on your privately owned device? 😂😂😂

Yeah nobody could have seen this coming when they made TVs have a operating system 🤣🤣🤣

Join with the rest of us in refusing to buy Spy Daddy TVs.

Boycott HDMI as well. It’s not just a Video and Audio cable, it had communication & internet sharing as well, and it’s Absolutely Proprietary.

Why does a monitor need a secret internet connection piggybacked over video? It doesn’t.

Goodbye Internet v1.0

With a cliffhanger like that I’ll try to guess … number of steps taken?

Not really sure what else is realistic and what is hypothetical.

Yes, vote with your dollar. That’s all these companies understand. The only way to win is not to play and say no to these data syphon extortion schemes.

Gosh damn Linyos Torovoltos!!!

Laughs in DVORAK. This is some pretty funny Schitzotroll.