Where is the investment into a real smart phone that protects your privacy. I'd pay a premium for this, especially if the manufacturing and resources used fair labor.
I think the issue is the patents with the hardware needs to run out, but by then 6G or 7G will be out and you'll have the same problem. Anything with DMA that isn't closed source cannot be trusted. I'll die on that hill.
Even with projects like PinePhone, the best they can do is a privacy switch that turns off the modem. It's just not good enough to take it seriously.
While this is a large surface in rural areas and older technologies, it's not the same in urban/newer technologies. It could easily be associated with a given building.
To protect our location, it would need something akin to a mobile proxy that would relay the communication but to my knowledge, there are no such things for mobile communications. And this is not really secure, it's just outsourcing security to another entity which may be be compromised.
(I am quite rusty, but I was a telecom engineer)
If you care about the NSA, then you better not have any phone. Whatever it's a android, iphone, grapheneos, anything. Israel blowing up pagers is a proof that nothing is impossible to them.
But if you want to say fuck off to the big data harvester like Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and so on.. then apple isn't bad at all.
You just got to deal with the usual apple bullshit, no side loading, repairability, thunderbolt charger, no headphone jack, etc.
so instead of an actual improvement just settle for second least worst? ironically google pixels are 100 times more private than any apple device will ever be because you can securely run your own 100% controlled open source OS such as grapheneos.org which is an actual private as in feature not marketing OS.
A gyroscope sensor is able to accurately record what one say close to his phone. It doesn’t even need Android to run he has access to private information.
This 'but X will get you anyway if they want' or '5$ wrench' is used by alot of people I know to rationalize selling themself out privacy wize.
That's a lost battle, if they want to see what you do, they do and there is nothing one can do but force them legally not to do so.
They literally sell your traffic to Google.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple–FBI_encryption_dispute
Apple's reaction to a number of such things has been to further enhance encryption.
They go to a good deal of trouble to make things they can't break. Look at the new cloud compute model they're introducing:
https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/
And if you've missed it, note the prior "verified contact" key exchange added to iMessages, as well as the "sorry we can't read your backups to help you recover your data" security added to iCloud (provided you only use devices up-to-date and opted in). This one is a customer service nightmare, they added it anyway.
All that said, this article is less interesting since (a) if your cell phone uses a telco, "they" know where you are, and where you've been, no Apple needed; and (b) unlike Apple segmenting your Maps directions to prevent themselves from knowing where you are going, Google's always been about your location.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41184153
Apple was caught issuing issuing OCSP queries (hello, XKEYSCORE) every time an app was launched, promised to stop logging and build an opt-out, then reneged and memory-holed the promise.
I’d probably get one as well, but who else would?
I'm just guessing it just doesn't make financial sense to develop one.