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My understanding may be dated, but I have often wondered if the battle for privacy is a lost cause in the mobile phone space. Even with a ground-up open platfo
by verytrivial 11y ago
My understanding may be dated, but I have often wondered if the battle for privacy is a lost cause in the mobile phone space. Even with a ground-up open platform for the phone and OS, current regulation requires blob of 'certified' hardware and software between you and the antenna/network. Short of using my phone to acoustically-couple a 2400baud cryto-stream (the call meta-data of which still being snitched), I'm really not sure if privacy is possible.
- webXL 11y agoNot total privacy since the network knows who's on both ends, or at least that you're on one end, but as long as you can tunnel encrypted traffic over it via a hotspot, I'm not sure how that could be cracked.
- shostack 11y agoOne way that I've been wondering about is all these new keyboards coming on the market. Things like Swype, Swiftkey etc. They have cloud storage for storing data to feed predictive algorithms, but it essentially becomes a cloud-based keystroke logger. So you may be sending encrypted traffic via hotspot, but your keyboard process running in the background has the raw input data and is feeding that to a server. I'd love to read a more detailed writeup on the security of such apps, which ones are trusted (ie. only using local encrypted storage, no phoning home), etc.