with all the commotion around privacy around phones which have any
proprietary software / drivers inside:
1. what would it take to make the following privacy features available
on android? [questions 1a, 1b, 1c]
2. which of the current hardware models could support these privacy
features? [question 2a]
here is what's needed to provide privacy beyond the security model
already provided by linux:
for offline privacy:
1a: ultimately a [LUKS] encrypted root filesystem (/boot would, of
course, have to stay unencrypted)
for online privacy:
1b: be able to selectively turn off cell phone transmission antenna
(receiver must stay on even when xmit is off)
( possibly also be able to turn off Wifi and Bluetooth
transmission antennas )
1c/2a: this one might be a tricky one (does that exist any HW which
could support this?) : filter the packets which are leaving through
cell-phone antenna (like filtering GSM packets in Europe)
- what other control features would provide for grassroots privacy?
another question is - how to make sure that none of the proprietary
drivers are collecting (and possibly transmitting when triggered) any
private / personal data from the system? Has anyone at google ever
seen the sources for the binary-only drivers, especially drivers that
drive the cell-phone packet transmission?
BBTD
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