For privacy-minded people, hardware switches are a nice thing. I remember when I had a Xiaomi Mi 9T with its popup camera, and it was interesting to see that some websites would trigger said popup camera. While the camera was never actually used, the thing would go up and down. This was even with an ad blocker installed.
I have a Mi 9 t pro. Never experienced anything like that.
While I do have hardened my settings, debloat with adb etc. privacy whise and use the EU MIUI rom.
Do you rememher said websites?
Man, it has been a while, as I don’t use the 9T as the daily phone now. I think I recall The Verge as one of the sites, because I wasn’t expecting it from them. It happened only a few times, and it wasn’t site-wide. Can’t remember which pages triggered it though.
My friend had one, and Instagram would often pop it out and back in quickly. That was way back when though.
I heard speakers could be used as microphones
Speakers are microphones, they are the same thing(basically), one uses current to move a diaphragm to create pressure and the other uses pressure to move the diaphragm to create a current.
No audio jack –> nope.
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Welcome to 2023, the 99% doesnt want them as cool as dangling cords are an all…
Your mistake is in thinking that representation in the media/web sphere = representation in the population. White I don’t know the numbers, I reckon that the percentage of the population that doesn’t want a headphone is less than half—possibly much less.
It’s now a fashion statement to have cordless white blobs in your ears. So cool.
Maybe, but for those who dont like looking like removed, thiers litterally every other earbud in existance.
You sound like somebody who doesn’t talk to people with green bubbles on iMessage.
Only mic and camera? It should also turn off GPS, accelerometer, etc. Filming the inside of my pocket isn’t the biggest tracking concern. People are just afraid someone’s watching them masturbate all the time.
The article states that there is second switch to diaable wifi, data, gps etc that is essentially an airplane mode.
That’s only a soft switch. A compromised device could turn them back on.
Yeah a hard switch that switches in a dummy load instead of the antennas would be excellent
But it could hit battery life without also turning off the radios
Isn’t GPS just 3 sattelites passively shouting their clock to any who could listen? There’s no GPS kill switch because there’s nothing transmitted. WIFI kill switch is more understandable.
Your point is solid. But GPS position requires a signal from at least 3 satellites to work. There are a whole lot more than 3 in the sky.
I really like having the mic off so Google doesn’t try to sell me something I mentioned a private conversation
There’s no better kill switch than the ability to remove battery
Some would argue that phones dont work without power.
Exactly.
That kind of defeats the purpose, though.
Having your mic and camera disabled, but being connected to the internet kind of defeats the purpose aswell. It’s better than nothing, but even with a device like that, powering it off doesn’t gurantee that no one is tracking it. Taking off the battery does.
Not if youre being accurate about it
I don’t believe you. Tim Cook told me so.
Except those still have power
Fairphone 5. Just got mine. Love it. I’m now waiting for the /e/ or, at least Lineage image to be released for it.
I went with the Galaxy XCover 6 Pro instead because it comes with a headphone jack. It also has a software switch to disable microphones, but I wouldn’t put too much faith on that.
i really don’t care about degoogling trusting some random ass company and their VPN.
It’s an e/ OS spin-off. Quite a trustable project.
Better off with a used pixel and grapheneos
Poorly yes. Even though
- no headphone jack
- super expensive
- damn huge
- no SD card slot
- no hardware switches
- repairable? Idk
- yeah no headphone jack is a bummer
- a used pixel is cheaper than than
- my pixel 5 seems pretty small, but idk what they are now or what that is so you’re probably right
- even bigger bummer than no headphone jack imo
- I don’t think those are that important, a piece of tape over the camera is fine imo
- you’re probably right there too, I wish fairphone could run grapheneos 😞
Fairphones have no secure element. The devs may be annoying, but what they dont do for a second is waste time.
Hmm, camera maybe but tape? Also microphone is not that easy. GPS, phone antennas and internet antennas are also way shadier
I wasn’t meaning to fault the grapheneos devs, like you said it’s fairphones fault for not making it possible 😞
I wish fairphone could run grapheneos
They get this request a lot, see this: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/os-issue-tracker/issues/1961
and this.
Yep, my point was shaking my fist at fairphone, not the grapheneos devs
Add very shitty on-screen-fingerprint reader to that list…
Like other phones, this most likely won’t have open source firmware.
What are you talking about? It’s using e/OS
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Is there any open firmware for those modules?
Removed by mod
I’d still prefer a Pixel running GrapheneOS with aggressively-restrictive permissions.
I’d also like the ability to use sandboxed Google services.
Interested in the built in VPN. Is that going to a monthly cost? If not, how are they funding it?
By stealing and selling your private data, the cycle continues!
Worked well the first time, why not try again :D
Yea that’s the first thing that came to mind when I read that headline
They can take my nunchucks and they can take my Adderall… But they’ll never take my
$27!!!
No 5G is a deal breaker for me.
You just get two COVID vaccinations instead, should kind of work the same
Does it have a hardware switch to prevent apps from taking screenshots? I hate so much that they can do it at any time without you ever knowing.
Where can I get more information? Is the software open sourced? Has it been independently audited?
Its /e/OS, a softfork of LineageOS, mostly superficial. Only GrapheneOS is extremely secure, although to be fair really degoogled LineageOS will probably be very nice too
although to be fair really degoogled LineageOS will probably be very nice too
Not by any technical standard. Unlocked bootloaders, security regressions, and user debug versions that are never deemed stable isnt really “nice”.
really degoogled LineageOS
Also called DivestOS
