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It’s akin to how, as an emir, you get a phone that is not set up to spy on you by your enemies: - Do you hire someone to give you a secure phone? But then, the
by laurent92 5y ago
It’s akin to how, as an emir, you get a phone that is not set up to spy on you by your enemies:
- Do you hire someone to give you a secure phone? But then, there’s only one link to subvert…
- Do you hire a security company to build a custom phone for you? But then, there are 10 engineers to trust and all the open-source dependencies they have,
- Do you purchase a standard iPhone by going to a warehouse and choosing the box yourself, because they can’t bug the whole pallet?
- southerntofu 5y ago> they can’t bug the whole pallet? Who gets to push updates to your phone? Isn't that a fundamental property of most phones (yes even "dumb" phones) to be controllable remotely? Whether through (unisolated) modem firmware, or via the system's service such as Google Play Services? So i'd say all in all it's not just that pallet that's bug, but the entire production line ;)
- laurent92 5y agoThe NSA is out of the league, but sometimes there are other enemies to protect from. Does Bill Gates just have a standard phone? Do Macron and Merkel just have standard phones? I have difficulty imagining they run Apple’s image detection software.