Smartphones with Qualcomm chips were found to send private user information, including IP address, unique ID, mobile country code, back to the U.S. chipmaker, according to a report by the German security company Nitrokey first released on April 25.
  • knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 years ago

    This is my shocked face 🥱

    How about we just list all of the imperial tech giants which don’t have backdoors and who don’t spy on users of their products.

    • Muad'Dibber@lemmygrad.ml
      21·
      2 years ago

      So many privacy-focused tech-people have focused on software only, because its at least somewhere that they can make a positive contribution, but in all likelihood, something we can’t mess with, the hardware, has backdoors and spying. Everything from CPUs, radios, and even hard drives likely have backdoors.

      There’s pretty much no way around that until we get competing non-western-owned hardware industries, which rn, only china and india are attempting.

      • TheOPtimal@lemmy.ml
        0·
        1 year ago

        china isn’t much better - they’re much more notorious for their backdoors.

        edit: before (admittedly you all already have) started throwing pitchforks at me for being a glowie, i live in eastern europe, and am an anarchist. i am no way saying that the U.S. has not done it’s fair share of global surveillance - honestly i’m more concerned about the U.S. because they seem to have their claws in about every single service and company. i just don’t think we should be absolving china of all of their wrongdoings just because they’re an enemy to the U.S.

          • TheOPtimal@lemmy.ml
            01·
            1 year ago

            what, you think I don’t know about PRISM? hell, snowden’s leaks were in 2012, NSA’s got a lot more advanced shit now. i’m just trying to say that the enemy of the enemy is not your friend. just because china is an enemy of the U.S. does not absolve china of all of its wrongdoing.