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Correct, its entirely possible they could be doing more insidious stuff at the firmware level, but dumb keyword checking is almost certainly implemented in user

Correct, its entirely possible they could be doing more insidious stuff at the firmware level, but dumb keyword checking is almost certainly implemented in userspace. I don't think you can trust any proprietary firmware out there, its just a question of which you trust less than the others.

halfstar91 5y ago
And based on recent discoveries it sounds like Xiaomi should be trusted less than others.
- hef19898 5y ago
  As stupid as it might sound, I do trust Pixel phones, and an hypothetical iPhone running a different OS, the most of all alternatives. If one want's a smartphone, if not just take a 20+ year old dumb phone. Or BlackBerry.
  - kelnos 5y ago
    Good luck getting that 20 year old phone to connect to any modern wireless network. I don't think anyone is running a 2G network anymore.
    - hef19898 5y ago
      I totally forgot that even 3G is going to be phased out.
summm 5y ago
Not only firmware. Custom ROMs actually have to use binary blobs in kernelspace and userspace as well, in order to be able to use the hardware.
FpUser 5y ago
>"its just a question of which you trust less than the others." Simple. I do not "trust less". I just do not trust. My phone is a phone. No Internet activity. I spend enough time in front of my desktop, dragging another computer anywhere I go is the last thing on my mind.