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This is the most likely outcome. Moreover, they won't even announce it. Apple learned a valuable lesson here. Roll the panopticon out in secret, and don't anno
by caeril 5y ago
This is the most likely outcome. Moreover, they won't even announce it.
Apple learned a valuable lesson here. Roll the panopticon out in secret, and don't announce it. They've done a very good job locking down their modern devices, enough that security researchers would have an exceptionally difficult time proving that they're doing it anyway.
GrapheneOS is still a viable option until Google ends upstream security updates in 2023. That's a solid two years for Purism, PinePhone, and anyone else working on linux phones to bring their performance and feature set up to modern standards.
The correct course of action is to buy a Pixel 5, run GrapheneOS for the next couple years, while donating to the main privacy-focused linux phone projects, and make the switch again in 2023.
- farmerstan 5y ago> Moreover, they won't even announce it. That's a terrible idea. Apple knows that researchers are going through every bit of assembly code on the phone. If all of a sudden they say "Hey we found some code that scans all your photos and sends information up to the cloud" how bad would that look? It's better to explain upfront rather than get found, because they will get found.
- caeril 5y agoIs this still possible? My lay understanding is that the SEP decrypts kernelspace on-demand, loads the opcodes on a very temporary (and randomly allocated) basis, and makes dumping any meaningful amount of the contents out of RAM very difficult. Not a jailbreaker at all, so happy to be completely wrong on this.
- dwaite 5y agoThe default for images is signed, not encrypted. A new section of self-modifying or encrypted kernel code would probably trigger some red flags.
- Hackbraten 5y ago> The correct course of action is to buy a Pixel 5, run GrapheneOS for the next couple years, while donating to the main privacy-focused linux phone projects, and make the switch again in 2023. Alternatively, get a Linux phone right now and donate time by contributing bugfixes.