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In general I would not expect much privacy from a stock Android device on any chat tool considering they shamelessly ship lots of third party blobs carriers dem
by lrvick 6y ago
In general I would not expect much privacy from a stock Android device on any chat tool considering they shamelessly ship lots of third party blobs carriers demand be included, some of which like OMA-DM toolkits have sweeping permissions on your device.
On Apple this is less true, but it is also a centralized black box that grants you no freedom, and apps can be banned at any time with little recourse.
You could use something other than Android like PostmarketOS or Librem5 however odds are Signal won't create clients for those platforms considering Moxie has stated publicly he prefers distribution through proprietary channels in order to collect usage stats. Moxie has also stated he will actively fight any third party clients that try to join his network, so we won't likely see many of those attempted for alternative platforms either.
- joecool1029 6y ago> some of which like OMA-DM toolkits have sweeping permissions on your device. Fortunately this seems to be going away. For those not aware as to what you're talking about, this is the proprietary 'rootkit' providers like Sprint had to use to activate CDMA modems on their carriers on many of their devices that did not come with a CSIM. As it's doing a lot with the phone's modem, it needs tons of permissions on the device. Verizon Wireless and Google Fi also had similar apk's that were required to provision phones and update PRL (prority roaming list) information. In the US all modern devices on Verizon are CDMA-less and new Sprint customers are usually activated on T-Mobile network (with fallback to GSM/WCDMA not CDMA).