Re:Governments Turn to Commercial Spyware to Intimidate Diss...
by rsync on Monday May 30, 2016 @03:35PM
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"Their reasons ranged from not trusting the software to worrying that using it would draw government attention. And this in California."
Yes, surprising that they are not skeptical enough of secure messaging on a rooted, owned platform that contains at least two full-blown computers (SIM card and baseband) that they have no control over or access to.
Your carrier/manufacturer owns you. Depending on the SoC/platform, they may have DMA access to your application processor.
The only question is, how much do they own you, and using which vector. There is no escaping this until we can manage an open baseband and SIM platform.
Yes, surprising that they are not skeptical enough of secure messaging on a rooted, owned platform that contains at least two full-blown computers (SIM card and baseband) that they have no control over or access to.
Your carrier/manufacturer owns you. Depending on the SoC/platform, they may have DMA access to your application processor.
The only question is, how much do they own you, and using which vector. There is no escaping this until we can manage an open baseband and SIM platform.