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#2So I’m guessing this still has a black-box baseband?
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#3It's a bit disconcerting to see that it comes with software "enabled for at least 2 years of usage".
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#4Transparently marketing fear. Apparently this phone is for you if you ever [0]:
> speak personally with a partner
> worry about your kids
Shameful.
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#5I hate to break it to you, but this is not going to keep you safe from a state-level adversary.
I could drone on about this for pages and pages, but the sad fact is that if you are a target, it doesn't matter that you are using a "secure phone", "secure OS", or "encryption".
Time and time again, these systems have been broken or breached with simple tradecraft and subtle sabotage.
The Pentagon has a concerted (and expensive) effort to validate or verify the absence of "backdoors" or evidence of "additional circuitry" on ASICs or subsystems of it's major weapons systems and associated gadgetry. Do you?
I tell people that their simplest way to avoid having their communications intercepted is to NOT. USE. AN. ELECTRONIC. COMMUNICATIONS. DEVICE.
UBL used couriers, flash drives, and cutouts. If you need that level of protection, SO SHOULD YOU.
When I need to communicate secretly I BUY SOMEONE A BEER.
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#6"A $700 high-powered tracking device that protects your privacy!"
What a scam.
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#7Nope, it's still there.
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#8For $629 you could by quite a few one-time or short-time use trac phones that you buy with cash. Wouldn't that be more secure/private than this?
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#9Does it protect against this http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2006/12/can_you_hear_m... ?
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#10I hate to break it to you, but this is not going to keep you safe from a state-level adversary. I could drone on about this for pages and pages, but the sad fact is that if you are a target, it doesn't matter that you are using a "secure phone", "secure OS", or "encryption". Time and time again, these systems have been broken or breached with simple tradecraft and subtle sabotage. The Pentagon has a concerted (and ex…
If it made it harder for non-state adversaries to create profiles about you, it would still be a good thing. I don't want the Gov. to know about my private life. But neither do I want any search engine, online store or ISP to have that data.
So even though you are right, it's still better to choose a safer technology.