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Everything is based on trust. How do you know that your phone is not sending your browser history once per month at random time at night, along with random leg
by nicce 2y ago
Everything is based on trust. How do you know that your phone is not sending your browser history once per month at random time at night, along with random legitimate-looking service?
- aniviacat 2y agoBy running an open source OS for which I can confirm the contents of all outgoing connections.
- nicce 2y agoYou can hope, but even then processor microcode is likely closed source. And you cannot really confirm the above use case very well. What if it is so sophisticated that it knows when it is being monitored, or it is so random or well hidden, that it might take years to spot.
- mldbk 2y agoWhat is that? Even your custom android build will have some binary blobs for your SoC. We are just doomed.
- guappa 2y agoMy phone's software is open source, kagi (and the others) aren't.