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Re:HarmonyOS is Huawei’s Android alternative for smartphones... by gruez on Friday August 09, 2019 @12:25PM (#20655802)
How does that work if everything is encrypted? You can smuggle the information alongside legitimate requests
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Re:HarmonyOS is Huawei’s Android alternative for smartphones... by imglorp on Friday August 09, 2019 @03:32PM (#20657594)
True, but at least you know the size, destination, and timing of an exchange.

You can't stop detect small smuggling but a periodic pull of software updates looks vastly different from uploads of all your photos, just for example.

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