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#GrapheneOS only works with #Google #Pixel. This is proprietary AI hardware with access to microphone, camera, location and internet. We don't know what it does, but theoretically it would be possible to route data past the operating system at hardware level (#M2M profiles in #eSIM).
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Vitor Pamplona 1y ago

Sure, it is possible, but that is true for any phone.

That question comes up on a regular basis. Despite a lot of close scrutiny, nobody has ever confirmed that Pixel hardware has any backdoors or connectivity that bypasses the OS.

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756240d3... 1y ago

To find out, you would have to be able to read the encrypted 5G radio traffic. And no one has probably managed that yet.

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Vitor Pamplona 1y ago

Not really, there are a lot of tools in the security space to investigate chips and other low level hardware activity. Lots of companies do that for their own employees. Many government departments of multiple countries also do that. Many of the same tools are also available to "opensource" cyber security folks.

Also, they make so much money with regular users that investing on specialized hardware and running the risk of being found just to get the data from a small number of people that root their devices is way too costly compared to the potential profits from that data.

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756240d3... 1y ago

Then we agree that these potential #vulnerabilities exist, they just haven't been proven yet?

That's why #Snowden also removes the microphones and there are products like NitroPhone with optional removed microphones, sensors and cameras.

It is just important to me that people are aware of this and are not lulled into a false sense of #security.

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756240d3... 1y ago

It was not for older phones without eSIM. And I think it's dangerous to believe that you can escape Google's data collection business model with proprietary Google hardware.