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To steal a line from Mulder (The X-Files) "And they call me paranoid." Glad my phone, and my messages are encrypted. Filevault on my laptop.

• opendais 12y ago
  They can get into the phone through the baseband. Its not safe to assume its secure vs. targeted surveillance. A good discussion is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7062489 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7062489
  • mey 12y ago
    A great starting point is asking how many general purpose computers are on your phone. My count is currently 2-4. Your primary OS, the one you interact with. The radio baseband, which you don't have control over. Your SIM card which can speak to the baseband without your primary OS. Lastly depending on your storage, (SD Card) may have it's own cpu, but this (I don't believe in general) can be accessed by the baseband or sim card without passing through the primary os.
    • opendais 12y ago
      Fair enough. I'd just use a LTE base station over WIFI and encrypt anything running through it if it was me.
    • scintill76 12y ago
      I've been thinking lately about a way to address this: get a "phone" with no cell hardware, and pair it with a cellular/WiFi bridge such as MiFi. Get internet-based replacement services for voice calls and texts. Now you have one less undocumented interface or super-privileged CPU to worry about. There's a lot of practicality questions in terms of battery life, expense, convenience to carry around, but for certain security scenarios it seems like a step forward.