It’s called GrapheneOS
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geoff@midwest.social 5 months ago
I hope there’s some technological way we can use to foil these attempts to violate citizens’ privacy en masse.
black_flag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 5 months ago
Alternative ODes surely do have better privacy than Android, but that’s probably not sufficient. On Smartphones, there runs not a single CPU like on a laptop, but more like 5 computers and only one of them is controlled by the OS. For example, there is a baseband processor and a radio modem. And the SIM card is a computer. And part of these can be controlled remotely (have you ever wondered how your phone automatically re-programs it parameters when you change providers?).
And then there are gaps in authentication in the radio prozocol: Your phone / SIM card authenticates against a radio tower so that the right phone user pays the bill. But the phone has no way to detect a rogue mobile tower…
geoff@midwest.social 5 months ago
I’m aware of GrapheneOS, but I don’t know how their tracking works, so I also don’t know if GrapheneOS can offer enough protection.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Reticulum is gaining momentum. I’m planning on investigating how viable a shift off cellular would actually be for my uses and it actually looks pretty doable.
Attacker94@lemmy.world 5 months ago
What area do you live in that reticulum has enough coverage to remove the dependency on cell service
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
It doesn’t have the ability, not completely anyway. But it can actually do the thing and by putting the pressure on myself that way I can ensure I do my part to improve the situation.