In Spite of Its Ads, It's Quacking Like a Duck - Rob Braxman Tech
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Date: 2022-03-20
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Tom
What you say about encryption is true for any encryption, this is nothing especially related to Apple. The only exception is the one you set up by yourself completely, including source code, intrusion detection, ne external updates you did not verify yourself et cetera.
My own thoughts on privacy are a bit more common-sense based, as I'm limited to provide technical proof to all imaginable/possible threats (as the vast majority is.
Qui bono - Who is more likely interested in utilizing a user's data without his or her consent? A company making it's revenue nearly completely by selling user data for targeted advertizing and government use or a company creating hardware and an eco-system of services - who even happened to argue with the government over access to user data? Of course, there is always the triple-letter-agencies - but for those, the vendor makes not really a difference, of course.
When I think about it: If I would be such agency, I would somehow (concealed) promote an especially hardened device just like yours, with the same arguments you are using - knowing that typical target persons are interested but will rely on your word and service rather than being able to check, what is actually going on. This would make my live as an agent much easier, as people using this device are far less people to be controlled; ) This would address the volume to be analyzed dramatically - and data volume is a core problem for mass surveillance.
What you say about open source is theoretically true but only applies when you are capable and have the time to check the source code plus the behavior continuously. I do not know anybody who is able to spend that kind of effort. I'm saying that as an soft- and hardware engineer using free BSD and Linux systems since the early nineties and analyzing them on kernel level.
Remember, you have to check any device you are using - also those of others in your vicinity. You also have to re-engineer any software update. Unfortunately, this is not practical and you have to rely on somebody else, be it Apple engineers or Rob Braxman; )
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What you say about encryption is true for any encryption, this is nothing especially related to Apple. The only exception is the one you set up by yourself completely, including source code, intrusion detection, ne external updates you did not verify yourself et cetera.
My own thoughts on privacy are a bit more common-sense based, as I'm limited to provide technical proof to all imaginable/possible threats (as the vast majority is.
Qui bono - Who is more likely interested in utilizing a user's data without his or her consent? A company making it's revenue nearly completely by selling user data for targeted advertizing and government use or a company creating hardware and an eco-system of services - who even happened to argue with the government over access to user data? Of course, there is always the triple-letter-agencies - but for those, the vendor makes not really a difference, of course.
When I think about it: If I would be such agency, I would somehow (concealed) promote an especially hardened device just like yours, with the same arguments you are using - knowing that typical target persons are interested but will rely on your word and service rather than being able to check, what is actually going on. This would make my live as an agent much easier, as people using this device are far less people to be controlled; ) This would address the volume to be analyzed dramatically - and data volume is a core problem for mass surveillance.
What you say about open source is theoretically true but only applies when you are capable and have the time to check the source code plus the behavior continuously. I do not know anybody who is able to spend that kind of effort. I'm saying that as an soft- and hardware engineer using free BSD and Linux systems since the early nineties and analyzing them on kernel level.
Remember, you have to check any device you are using - also those of others in your vicinity. You also have to re-engineer any software update. Unfortunately, this is not practical and you have to rely on somebody else, be it Apple engineers or Rob Braxman; )
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Dorky
Just wait in less than half a decade I'll bet people will be hating on DuvkDuckGo, mainly because there really is no such thing as privacy especially in the open internet! LoL! Net Neutrality, or Internet Transparency anyone? Which doesn't bother me, just hide in plain sight, have we forgotten about this age old tactic. Better yet though, if something has to be hidden it shouldn't even be done. Even the super aggressive advertisements, but hey it actually helps and i don't mind it much i just overlook it if users are that concerned then they need to go back to cans and strings, but even they'd be pointing their fingers at others starting they disrespected their privacy. So just remain evasive and elusive or just don't even do it or let it bother you. Cause it's one of those rules/laws that will never go away and if it does it'll only be replaced by something an epic mega shit ton worse than what we think is bad right now. Sort of like Murphy's Law.
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Just wait in less than half a decade I'll bet people will be hating on DuvkDuckGo, mainly because there really is no such thing as privacy especially in the open internet! LoL! Net Neutrality, or Internet Transparency anyone? Which doesn't bother me, just hide in plain sight, have we forgotten about this age old tactic. Better yet though, if something has to be hidden it shouldn't even be done. Even the super aggressive advertisements, but hey it actually helps and i don't mind it much i just overlook it if users are that concerned then they need to go back to cans and strings, but even they'd be pointing their fingers at others starting they disrespected their privacy. So just remain evasive and elusive or just don't even do it or let it bother you. Cause it's one of those rules/laws that will never go away and if it does it'll only be replaced by something an epic mega shit ton worse than what we think is bad right now. Sort of like Murphy's Law.
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Yega
This is a bit inaccurate. Unfortunately, 99% of your audience aren't tech savvy enough to tell.
iPhone users cannot turn off their devices but they can go into settings and turn off both -bluetooth- and -Wi-Fi- (I do this every night to save battery) or switch on AirPlane mode.
I have also tested -Find My iPhone- with my phone switched to AirPlane mode and it doesn't work (I could only see the last known location from the previous day.
So even if your phone is always on, you can switch off the radios.
There is also an option to switch off location services (I'm not sure how effective that is however.
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This is a bit inaccurate. Unfortunately, 99% of your audience aren't tech savvy enough to tell.
iPhone users cannot turn off their devices but they can go into settings and turn off both -bluetooth- and -Wi-Fi- (I do this every night to save battery) or switch on AirPlane mode.
I have also tested -Find My iPhone- with my phone switched to AirPlane mode and it doesn't work (I could only see the last known location from the previous day.
So even if your phone is always on, you can switch off the radios.
There is also an option to switch off location services (I'm not sure how effective that is however.
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Tom
-Rob Braxman Tech: Can you really prove (by radio measurement) that a switched off device will emitt anything (really switched off, not display dimmed? The same proof would be interesting for a mobile device with -location services- switched off to actually still transmit location data. I'm not denying that such things are possible. Sorry that as an engineer, I can't just take your word without any bullet-proof measurement. I would love to see how you move from sepeculations about -what is possible- and -what they could do- to technical proof that it is actually the case and used in a certain (malicious) way.
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-Rob Braxman Tech: Can you really prove (by radio measurement) that a switched off device will emitt anything (really switched off, not display dimmed? The same proof would be interesting for a mobile device with -location services- switched off to actually still transmit location data. I'm not denying that such things are possible. Sorry that as an engineer, I can't just take your word without any bullet-proof measurement. I would love to see how you move from sepeculations about -what is possible- and -what they could do- to technical proof that it is actually the case and used in a certain (malicious) way.
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Melissa
Tech communication between devices without internet -sounds like something invented to track and communicate device owners during a possible apocalypse. -These -people- think of everything. Internet goes down-our device is a flashlight for us- it-s -their- GPS, eyes and ears on owners. So not surprised or impressed. I also strongly think, anyone who STILL trusts big tech or Big G, as in Gov, or Big C, as in Corporations, or Big Rx, as in pharma - are likely never going to come to terms with this world or are a part of the opposition. Thank you so much for your sound information.
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Tech communication between devices without internet -sounds like something invented to track and communicate device owners during a possible apocalypse. -These -people- think of everything. Internet goes down-our device is a flashlight for us- it-s -their- GPS, eyes and ears on owners. So not surprised or impressed. I also strongly think, anyone who STILL trusts big tech or Big G, as in Gov, or Big C, as in Corporations, or Big Rx, as in pharma - are likely never going to come to terms with this world or are a part of the opposition. Thank you so much for your sound information.
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Sal
I don't think there's much point in trying to escape. Even if you went for a Linux phone, or no phone at all, you're still surrounded by people using smartphones, and your face can, therefore, be searched for against facial recognition databases from another person's phone nearby.
The best answer then is to sort out your life, and prepare yourself mentally for tough times ahead - because those are coming whether you have a groovy phone or not, or whether you believe in freedom or not, and will be of more use to you than anything with a battery and screen.
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I don't think there's much point in trying to escape. Even if you went for a Linux phone, or no phone at all, you're still surrounded by people using smartphones, and your face can, therefore, be searched for against facial recognition databases from another person's phone nearby.
The best answer then is to sort out your life, and prepare yourself mentally for tough times ahead - because those are coming whether you have a groovy phone or not, or whether you believe in freedom or not, and will be of more use to you than anything with a battery and screen.
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Sean
Uninformed garbage. Use wireshark on your iPhone and look at the tcp and udp connections and you will see that this guy is in fact a quack. Wild conspiracy theory strung together by half truths. Client side scanning-. He literally made that entire thing up. It-s called there is no such thing as 256 but elliptical curve guys - please read real official documentation about how things work.
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Uninformed garbage. Use wireshark on your iPhone and look at the tcp and udp connections and you will see that this guy is in fact a quack. Wild conspiracy theory strung together by half truths. Client side scanning-. He literally made that entire thing up. It-s called there is no such thing as 256 but elliptical curve guys - please read real official documentation about how things work.
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Leslie
It bothers me that even in my car that I've had for sometime now, one of two methods of linking music playing from my phone no longer works (std bluetooth speaker, and now i can only hear my music if the Pandora app is up AND RUNNING. Same vehicle, multiple phones. Proof that my Radio hardware has been reprogrammed after factory!
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It bothers me that even in my car that I've had for sometime now, one of two methods of linking music playing from my phone no longer works (std bluetooth speaker, and now i can only hear my music if the Pandora app is up AND RUNNING. Same vehicle, multiple phones. Proof that my Radio hardware has been reprogrammed after factory!
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Hermann
I used to use Macs to analyze network traffic years ago (with Etherpeek and later wireshark. Impossible with newer MacOS versions, the amount of unwanted traffic generated by various parts of the OS is incredible. With all that noise, you just stop using such a machine for serious work. ATM I run a Macbook with Debian for that.
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I used to use Macs to analyze network traffic years ago (with Etherpeek and later wireshark. Impossible with newer MacOS versions, the amount of unwanted traffic generated by various parts of the OS is incredible. With all that noise, you just stop using such a machine for serious work. ATM I run a Macbook with Debian for that.
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Tetravoxium
I have an old ipad, it can be updated to iOS 10 but I keep it on iOS 8 and use a lightning to Ethernet adapter and plug it into a wifi extender when I use it, mainly because the wifi in it is whack, but also for this reason, I also use caylx os on my pixel 4 -
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I have an old ipad, it can be updated to iOS 10 but I keep it on iOS 8 and use a lightning to Ethernet adapter and plug it into a wifi extender when I use it, mainly because the wifi in it is whack, but also for this reason, I also use caylx os on my pixel 4 -
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