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You can disable the voice assistant on a cell phone and many phones come with it disabled by default. It is up to you to have it on.
by eikenberry 9y ago
You can disable the voice assistant on a cell phone and many phones come with it disabled by default. It is up to you to have it on.
- a_t48 9y agoHow do you trust that it’s actually disabled?
- colemannugent 9y agoRun a custom ROM and monitor network connections. Don't trust, verify.
- comboy 9y agoGood luck verifying that radio chip.
- khedoros1 9y agoWell, if you can verify the data being fed into the chip by the software that you can verify...
- frik 9y agoThe 3G/4G modem is a different chip with its own ARM CPU. Android and iOS communicate with it over a limited AT-API.
- AlexCoventry 9y agoI suppose you could use a dedicated 4G modem and connect a WiFi-only tablet to that.
- thomastjeffery 9y agoYou can't completely. Android is free software, but the driver blobs are not, and are often known to have security flaws. It's not something that I am OK with. It's a compromise. I am excited for the librem phone[0], but I can't afford something like that at the moment. [0]https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/ https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/
- jacksmith21006 9y agoHow do you know it is disabled? Plus far easier to have additional rogue software on a phone versus one of these smart speakers.