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Re:Tell HN: Your Android carrier can remotely turn settings on by kube-system on Monday December 12, 2022 @04:58PM (#33961021)
The baseband is an entirely separate SoC that is a blackbox outside of the control of GrapheneOS. And your radios are solely under the control of that system. GrapheneOS just asks it nicely to do things on its behalf.

All of these privacy focussed phone OSes tread lightly on the fact that there are a grand total of zero modern open source basebands in existence.

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Re:Tell HN: Your Android carrier can remotely turn settings on by kornhole on Monday December 12, 2022 @06:57PM (#33962312)
Agreed. We can only mitigate by tactics: -not associating the device ID's to personal ID's. -only using cellular in limited situations. -rotating the SIMs periodically with other family members
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Re:Tell HN: Your Android carrier can remotely turn settings on by kube-system on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @07:24AM (#33967956)
You don’t get to choose those things if you don’t choose what the radio does. Swapping SIMs around doesn’t accomplish that. The hardware and software that the baseband has entirely within the confines of its own black box is enough to track you.
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