Might as well make it difficult though.
Hopefully there's a 4G version coming. This seems too good to be true.
The creators of the project suggest using your phone's hotspot if you need connectivity when not connected to Wi-fi (something I heard in interviews they gave).
> Part of the purpose of Precursor is to validate the system-on-chip (SoC) design we hope eventually to produce as a custom ASIC for use in future such products. This SoC, which we call "Betrusted-SoC," is meant to be the central pillar of security for devices like Precursor. The version of Betrusted-SoC used in Precursor is based on a Xilinx FPGA and has the following features [...] [1]
As for the person who replied to you requesting LTE: won't happen, there's no completely FOSS stack for LTE. Always there is closed source firmware due to regulations. Oh, that wonderful world of transceivers. If you want FOSS, go wired. Tho it seems Precursor found a way to utilize Wi-Fi with a FOSS stack?
Just assume you’re being persistently surveilled - if you use a computer or electronics then the likelihood approaches 100% over your lifetime.
Doesn’t mean we don’t do anything about it, just means we have to acknowledge reality
* When I ordered the first generation Raspberry Pi, they were stuck in the toll a long time, and when they arrived all the warranty seals were broken. Consequently I never really used them.
* When I ordered the first generation Google Pixel, before it was generally available in my country, it was stuck in domestic mail for almost a week. The person who imported them sold and sent two phones the same day: the other one arrived after just two days and travelled a lot further. I used it regardless as I already considered phones a lost cause... (and could not with good conscience sell a possibly compromised device).
At this point I don't trust anything sent by mail.
> When I ordered the first generation Raspberry Pi, they were stuck in the toll a long time, and when they arrived all the warranty seals were broken. Consequently I never really used them.
If state have means to bug raspberry pi it has means to re-seal the box...
That's a good point that I never made sense of. The most likely explanation is simply an oversealouz toll agent. It just left a bad taste in my mouth so I didn't want to play with them...
I had largely forgotten about it until the Google Pixel got stuck.
I believe the fewest are. But constant surveillance is an advantage if you need to monitor general opinions or if they find you interesting at a later point and want to check your history.
So if you talk about burning wood in your stove a lot and it later becomes illegal you might have a hard time denying you have a stove if they ask you to pay extra carbon emission taxes.
Or if you talk about chest pain a lot and later want to get a new health insurance you might find that your options are mysteriously more expensive than others.
Basically, you can only trust things manufactured before "going online" became a thing.
Data exfiltration through audio / fan speed / LEDs blinking / power draw / etc. simply doesn't.
I think that a discussion about metric shitloads of networking gear being compromised is not the place to make fun of the few that didn't compromise on security.
There's a place for offline/airgapped devices and private keys (PGP keys, seeds, whatever) being generated by throwing dice.
If anything all these backdoors do show that math/cryptography do work. The NSA's budget may be 100% of the US GDP, they still wouldn't be changing Sun's gravity or the math behind cryptography.
The joke today is on those who kept making fun of those who didn't trade security for convenience.
It's their job.
They're carefully watching and cataloging any communications technology they can't compromise.
[0] https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/12/supermicro_bloomberg_...
What's your source on this?