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Edward Snowden: How Your Cell Phone Spies on You
- makerofspoons 7y agoFor those interested in a privacy focused phone, Pine64 still has preorder PinePhones available: https://store.pine64.org/?product=pinephone-braveheart-limited-edition-linux-smartphone-for-early-adaptor https://store.pine64.org/?product=pinephone-braveheart-limit... It has privacy switches for the microphone, camera, bluetooth, and LTE. It also supports open source mobile operating systems.
- fghtr 7y agoWhile Pine64 phone is promising, it does not remove all the proprietary blobs. For those who need even more freedom and privacy, Librem 5 should be more suitable: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/ https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/
- beatgammit 7y agoI don't think the Librem 5 removes all the binary blobs either, right? From what I can tell, they're nearly identical right now in that regard, though I trust Purism to actually work on removing blobs, so maybe long term they're a better option. But AFAIK, neither has completely unlocked the bootloader or the modem, and I'm not sure about WiFi/Bluetooth.
- fghtr 7y agoThey do remove all binary blobs at least by the definition of the Free Software Foundation, who already recommed it:. "The Purism Librem 5 cell phone is another exciting addition to the Giving Guide this year: we're giving it a tentative recommendation because the company has publicly committed to doing the right things for prioritizing user freedom and privacy." https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/ethical-tech-giving-guide-freedom-is-the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/ethical-tech-giving-guid...
- Craighead 7y agoI do not care what a traitor with blood on his hands has to say about privacy.