Every modern cell phone sold in the US has its radio chip connected to the actual processing hardware at the lowest level. This means that the radio chip can override the actual processor of the phone if need be. Smarter people than me have gone on about this at length, but tl;dr modern smart phones are entirely 0wn3d by NSA and friends. Not trying to black pill, only alternative I know of is Librem 5 phone which isn't out yet.
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gonight ago
Every modern cell phone sold in the US has its radio chip connected to the actual processing hardware at the lowest level. This means that the radio chip can override the actual processor of the phone if need be. Smarter people than me have gone on about this at length, but tl;dr modern smart phones are entirely 0wn3d by NSA and friends. Not trying to black pill, only alternative I know of is Librem 5 phone which isn't out yet.
Do some research, don't trust your phone, period.
Apexbreed ago
I have a lot of research to do, but at this point, I'm ready to go back to a dumb phone...
dawnbandit1 ago
Librem 5 looks like it's using 5+ YO hardware. It also has no support for the newer Band 71 (600MHz) spectrum.
gonight ago
Yeah, but that's still more functions than a flip phone, if you want that kind of stuff.