Your smartphone tracks your location, listens to your conversations, and sells your intimate moments to data brokers.
The law pretends to regulate this, but lobbyists write the rules and enforcement is a joke.
Encryption apps aren’t enough when the hardware itself is designed to betray you.
The phone is a spy device marketed as a lifestyle accessory.
We need radical technical solutions, not incremental privacy policies that change nothing.
The surveillance economy depends on your ignorance and inaction.
Break the chain: use open hardware, de-Googled Android, or build your own tools.
#privacy #surveillance #digitalrights #antitrust
How much of your life are you willing to sell for a slightly more convenient map app?
What we need most at this point are hardware manufacturers that aren’t in bed with the CIA.
for a long time i have had the feeling that basically there’s only a very small number of hardware manufacturers in the world, we all know them, TSMC and others, and basically i suspect that the CIA puts some kind of spyware directly into the hardware. maybe i’m wrong here, but i have a gut feeling. we need independent hardware manufacturers, maybe stationed in europe or somewhere else in the third world altogether.
you said it yourself, encrypted apps don’t mean anything when the underlaying system is already flawed. that is the operating system and the hardware. first we need better hardware, then we need a clean, non-invasive operating system, then we need good apps. starting with good apps alone doesn’t actually do that much when your data gets siphoned off through other apps nonetheless.
Not the CIA, the NSA does this all the time. The documents that Snowden leaked confirmed that the agency intercepts hardware being shipped to targets and swaps out the firmware to allow them to listen in on all network traffic going through that device. They also work closely with ISPs to install devices that mirror all network traffic going through that ISP to another device so they can log and analyze it.