(You have to physically remove the wifi and bluetooth hardware)
Also, one-way diodes are fine, mostly.
But I agree completely. There's a major lack of awareness.
I'm quite angry that firewalls on phones isn't a thing - and that you have to use a VPN workaround. Why is such a basic feature missing? (Oh wait, I know: advertising revenue, and uh, intentional vulnerability)
there's no pure linux even on the main cpu, let alone in the entire device with separate computers for radio, camera, lowpower mode, etc.
nothing on that SoC is free or open.
btw, misleading everyone by running the blobs in a separate core with the same accesses of the main ones just to brute force certification is even worse than admitting you couldn't get free of the blobs, like the pine phone people correctly did.
> You can use a firewall on GNU/Linux phones though.
And that's true. There are phones, that run GNU/Linux distros, that give you a working software firewall. Pointing at blobs doesn't make it not GNU/Linux on a phone with a firewall. At best it points to a place where a firewall could be undermined, but if that's your standard then (nearly?) everything fails, including actual literal firewall hardware appliances (I'd take Linux nftables on a blobbed network card over Cisco any day).
Correct, and not getting why that is the worse of the options puts you out of the discussion in this thread. sorry.
Could you provide any links or details?