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It's unlikely that if you have a mobile phone, the landlord doesn't keep some doors locked. At minimum - even if you're running de-Googled Android - the baseba
by averageRoyalty 3y ago
It's unlikely that if you have a mobile phone, the landlord doesn't keep some doors locked.
At minimum - even if you're running de-Googled Android - the baseband blob has high levels of access and you have no control over it.
I'm not saying Apple isn't worse with this, but the illusion of phone ownership spreads a lot further.
- madars 3y agoBaseband blobs are isolated with IOMMU (at least on GrapheneOS https://grapheneos.org/faq#baseband-isolation https://grapheneos.org/faq#baseband-isolation, but maybe that's also true for stock Pixels idk) and Google spends a lot of effort on baseband security: https://security.googleblog.com/2023/12/hardening-cellular-basebands-in-android.html https://security.googleblog.com/2023/12/hardening-cellular-b...
- lxgr 3y agoNot to get too philosophical, but the entire concept of ownership per se is always a social contract that's being renegotiated continuously by society. Almost every country in the world has limits on the things you can own, to give just one example. I do see the value of having autonomy over the devices I conduct my digital life on (whether owned or rented, for that matter!), but I'm not sure if the concept of physical ownership is the right model here. How my personal data is being processed in other people's and the government's systems is just as relevant to me, and conversely, I'm fine with some opaque blobs of other people running on my hardware, as long as they're properly sandboxed (i.e. can't phone home freely or access any of my data that's none of their business), and I see the mutual benefit in them.