Re:Ask HN: How would French police locate suspects by tappin...
by COOL_DUDE_2112 on Saturday November 04, 2023 @02:35PM
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>The baseband is an embedded computer inside the phone that controls the device’s sensors and radios. It runs off of its own OS and is separate from the consumer-facing OS. The phone’s OS then talks to this embedded system. All phones do this, even the iPhone whose baseband OS was some variant of L4 Linux, IIRC.
It's my understanding if you route all your traffic through an always on VPN (eg Algo) you can frustrate basband nonsense, since all they'd see is a bunch of... stuff... going off to some colocated IP.
Now, maybe military intelligence can be a nearly global passive adversary, but if "the police" hacked such a phone they'd see noise going in and out to some strange server.
The above is the setup I had from ~2016 to ~2020 by the way -- while it provided a measure of privacy from local party officials, it also made me and my traffic stand out.
The key, in my experience, is to make data move around in such ways to require an MLAT and a zero day, and then be less interesting than those who would be cause to obtain both... but neoliberals are sadists and voyeurs forever aggrieved, forever inventing reasons so... all you can do is make them work for it IMHO and make it such that so many use your techniques they will regret their intrusions for even if they obtain the powers they want they will be overcome with analysis paralysis -- as we saw on Jan 6th, the issue is not that the state lacks power, it is that elements of "the state" never intend to follow the will of the people and react like toddlers having tantrums if they don't get their way.
It's my understanding if you route all your traffic through an always on VPN (eg Algo) you can frustrate basband nonsense, since all they'd see is a bunch of... stuff... going off to some colocated IP.
Now, maybe military intelligence can be a nearly global passive adversary, but if "the police" hacked such a phone they'd see noise going in and out to some strange server.
The above is the setup I had from ~2016 to ~2020 by the way -- while it provided a measure of privacy from local party officials, it also made me and my traffic stand out.
The key, in my experience, is to make data move around in such ways to require an MLAT and a zero day, and then be less interesting than those who would be cause to obtain both... but neoliberals are sadists and voyeurs forever aggrieved, forever inventing reasons so... all you can do is make them work for it IMHO and make it such that so many use your techniques they will regret their intrusions for even if they obtain the powers they want they will be overcome with analysis paralysis -- as we saw on Jan 6th, the issue is not that the state lacks power, it is that elements of "the state" never intend to follow the will of the people and react like toddlers having tantrums if they don't get their way.