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Re:Ask HN: I bought Voltaren at the chemist, now Google show... by YeGoblynQueenne on Sunday April 18, 2021 @09:56AM (#26852509)
Even better: flush your smartphone down the toilet.

I mean, if you have to try and double-guess your phone to make sure it's not spying on you the game is lost. I don't even know what game that is. But it's lost.

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Re:Ask HN: I bought Voltaren at the chemist, now Google show... by fsflover on Sunday April 18, 2021 @10:15AM (#26852658)
Or replace your phone with a one you can trust (Linux phone).
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Re:Ask HN: I bought Voltaren at the chemist, now Google show... by NoImmatureAdHom on Sunday April 18, 2021 @10:41AM (#26852890)
https://calyxos.org/ and https://grapheneos.org/ both go part of the way. They're hardened, privacy-preserving Android flavors that work best on Google Pixel 3 - 5. CalyxOS emulates google services so you can use basically any Android app, while GrapheneOS goes further down the security hardening hole.
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Re:Ask HN: I bought Voltaren at the chemist, now Google show... by dkdk8283 on Sunday April 18, 2021 @10:57AM (#26853029)
You still can’t trust the baseband blob which has DMA access on most devices.
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Re:Ask HN: I bought Voltaren at the chemist, now Google show... by fsflover on Sunday April 18, 2021 @02:16PM (#26854888)
These two devices do not have DMA access (and also have killswitches): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Librem_5 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PinePhone.
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Re:Ask HN: I bought Voltaren at the chemist, now Google show... by dkdk8283 on Sunday April 18, 2021 @10:56AM (#26853022)
Get a landline and answering machine. Receive only pager while on the go.
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Re:Ask HN: I bought Voltaren at the chemist, now Google show... by klyrs on Sunday April 18, 2021 @11:10AM (#26853124)
Pagers are rather famously unencrypted, and a hospital near you is almost certainly broadcasting personal and identifying information about patients right now, in the plain, and you can easily pick it up with an SDR.
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