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Yeah, it manages to subvert its own message by transparently trying to be as scary as possible by being vague and jumping to its own conclusions, in what is cle
by rcxdude 4y ago
Yeah, it manages to subvert its own message by transparently trying to be as scary as possible by being vague and jumping to its own conclusions, in what is clearly a sales pitch. It would be enough to say "hey, did you know that most phones send tracking data to the manufacturer when you download AGPS information? Our phone doesn't do that", instead of saying "oh, this phone makes a connection to a Qualcomm, server even on an open-source ROM, but we couldn't find which bit was making that connection so it must be the firmware. Also we won't actually show what data the phone was sending despite it being unencrypted. buy our phone instead!". I don't know what they did to investigate what was going on in the ROM they used but it clearly wasn't very much as it's something the ROM authors are clearly aware of: https://community.e.foundation/t/connections-to-izatcloud-net/19219/7 https://community.e.foundation/t/connections-to-izatcloud-ne... (this is the first result on google for "e/OS" "izatcloud"). It's annoying because it's pretty unnecessary to add the unsubstantiated claims to actually deliver their core marketing message, they just felt the need to put down the use of open-source ROMs on other hardware.
- palata 4y agoAgreed. I'm a bit disappointed by Nitrokey, because I would expect a security/privacy-oriented company to be experts. This all seems very shallow (even the explanation of what A-GPS is seems to show that they don't really understand it). A company that sells trust should know better than posting ads disguised as an approximate technical blog.
- tpmx 4y ago> It would be enough to say "hey, did you know that most phones send tracking data to the manufacturer when you download AGPS information? Someone credible: please write and submit such a blog post to HN so that we can have the discussion from that perspective instead. The current perspective is broken; discussion-wise.
- dagmx 4y agoThat assumes there’s really anything to discuss here. This is just A-GPS to work and has been like that for over a decade. The Wikipedia page has about as much information as a blog post would https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_GNSS?wprov=sfti1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_GNSS?wprov=sfti1 Or better yet, from the GrapheneOS devs themselves https://reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/12yii9u/_/jhojlr7/?context=1 https://reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/12yii9u/_/jhojlr7/?con...