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Phones in general are terrible for opsec. Even if you've flashed a Pixel with GrapheneOS[0] you can't reliably determine if you have malware on your device. The
by DerekBickerton 4y ago
Phones in general are terrible for opsec. Even if you've flashed a Pixel with GrapheneOS[0] you can't reliably determine if you have malware on your device. They're totally opaque. So are computers in general: They're largely black boxes which we have no insight to and can't readily inspect what they're doing at any given moment. Also: Welcome to the Internet!
[0] https://grapheneos.org/ https://grapheneos.org/
- daniel-cussen 4y agoThanks, I love it already! You know one time my computer was compromised I actually tried to clear the malware without reinstalling the OS. Like breaking out of a prison without outside help, just like sending commands trying to kill the virus beyond its capacity to hide itself, move around inside the computer, defend itself against my commands, extend and capture, all that. Maybe it's possible. The other thing is at a some point code transitions into medicine. A friend was describing codebases of like 15000 lines, that they had tumors. And they won't go away just like that, you have to try to contain them from spreading, help them become benign, it's more like medicine at that point. Like you can't sequence every cell, you can't debug completely, you can't clear all malware. Just like in the body there's germs going around, there's lots of cells whose DNA gets modified over time due to radiation, all kinds of shit going on and you can't just debug them one by one.