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Yes, but that does not stop the cell providers from selling your location [1].

You could also run an Android VM in the cloud and RDP to it when you want to use sketchy (edit: free) apps. This approach could have saved Bezos some trouble [2].

[1] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/nepxbz/i-gave-a-bounty-hu...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/22/technology/jeff-bezos-hac...

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> You could also run an Android VM in the cloud and RDP to it when you want to use sketchy (edit: free) apps. This approach could have saved Bezos some trouble

The article also points to WhatsApp as the infection vector.

I agree that anything Facebook produces is fair game as far as being sketchy goes, but it’s not the only messaging platform to have been exploited.

Do we run all messaging services in independent sandboxes in VMs?

[2] says Bezos' iPhone was hacked via WhatsApp with the NSO Group-developed exploit. It is not possible to run iOS VM in the cloud, and even for Android it does not sound practical at all.

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