It’s baffling no mainstream smartphone has a physical kill switch for microphones and cameras.

@Jbrimbelibap

2 жыл бұрын

@@ADUSN Android 12 and upwards does, so my xiaomi phone has it on the custom rom I installed. It's part of AOSP so you might be able to trust it, but it's not as safe as unplugging hardware

@yniekac8851

2 жыл бұрын

My boyfriend’s Motorola has a phone where the front camera pops up (out of the phone). Really useful but very rare

@danilodistefanis5990

2 жыл бұрын

Glowers wouldn’t allow such thing.

@愛

2 жыл бұрын

@@danilodistefanis5990 thats what i was thinking

@amnottabs

2 жыл бұрын

@@thealienrobotanthropologist yeah no headphone jack cause "no room left" but they squeeze 3 microphones and half a dozen of cameras on current devices

A "funsie" for everyone: you can request ALL your data that google holds onto and check it out your self. if you got some time you should definetly do that and also place your self in the mind of a stalker for example. it's honestly scary how much information you could gather from location+time alone of a person for example and should make everyone realise that you can extract even more from it than it seems at first glance. but you know the standard phrase "i've got nothing to hide"...ye

@metal-toilet7999

2 жыл бұрын

How do you get that data? Send them an email?

@Mi.i.i

2 жыл бұрын

@@metal-toilet7999 google dashboard for looking at it, google takeout for downloading

@LGB-FJB

11 ай бұрын

Do you actually trust google from removing that data?

@Buttersaemmel

11 ай бұрын

@@LGB-FJB i don't really. but this comment wasn't about removing the data but rather about obtaining what data they got from you.

@LGB-FJB

11 ай бұрын

@@Buttersaemmel Do you trust they will give everything they have on you? Has google ever been fully audited?

This is done only for your safety.

@rabbitdrink

2 жыл бұрын

thank you nsa for protecting honest americans like me, who have nothing to hide and nothing to fear!

@lateral1385

2 жыл бұрын

Much respect to our 🚨Law Enforcement 💜😪👮‍♀️👮🏻‍♂️agEnCies 🙏🇺🇸 Thank U for protect from the ISIS god bless

Deepfake algorithm has improved a lot. So life like!

@xeno4162

2 жыл бұрын

True

@Moolassy

2 жыл бұрын

@@StreetNickel it's an ongoing joke

@notuxnobux

2 жыл бұрын

@@StreetNickel Mental outlaw is luke smith's vtuber channel

@yourma-uh5um

2 жыл бұрын

@@Moolassy No it's not.

@emiktra7929

2 жыл бұрын

@@yourma-uh5um How do you know

lol your room looks exactly like those "men think it's okay to live like this" memes. i love it, stay strong king

@tontsar91

2 жыл бұрын

Haha good point!

In regards to triangulation, theoretically they only need 2 towers because with 2 circles they touch at 2 points. As long as they have 3 towers on you at some point they can track your movements and so they can know which point you're in. Until you go exactly between the 2 towers at which the 2 points merge and so they lose track again.

@PhilfreezeCH

2 жыл бұрын

Its also pretty important to note that most (if not all) police have access to sting rays, which are just fancy mobile antennas that are used for tracking (and in the US they can also capture data, in the EU this is only granted in special cases like if the police already have substantial evidence of you planing a larger crime).

@ichi1082

2 жыл бұрын

Theoretically, but practically all they have is the LQ and LS for your connection and to actually pinpoint that to a location is not trivial at all because these values don't drop linearly away from the tower. But since in practice you have more than three towers near you at all times, it's still possible to somewhat locate you.

@miguelcastro9706

2 жыл бұрын

I read a book that says that one of those two points it's an impossible answer Like a negative one or it so high that it's just ridiculous,(talking about GPS) But I'm not quite sure,it was an old book

@janekmuric

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, in theory. In practice, signals are not emmited as a spherical point source. They also interfere and bounce off surfaces and buildings which makes locating with two towers very inaccurate.

@boldCactuslad

2 жыл бұрын

think of it more as a 3D heatmap of where you could be located. with one tower, you get a strange large vaguely sphere-like shape, with tons of shaded/unknown areas for the reason pointed out by Jan here. One is most likely to be found in the middle of it, but it is (in practice) a large torus. You only get a vague impression of distance from the source. With two, it is more of an extruded slice of a cylinder or conic section. Think of a poorly drawn triangle or two, shaded in. Much better than the circle or torus, but again it is an impression or probability map. Being inside or outside would greatly effect it. Obviously, if there is only one tower connected to you, a quick trip to the map store or the drones r us shop would reveal you to be the singular guy standing next to his desert shack 8 miles away lol

Improving your privacy is always a good thing but do not give up the luxury of modern technology for the unreachable goal of perfect privacy. Perfect privacy on the internet does not exist, and you will go insane trying to achieve it.

@discodasco7356

2 жыл бұрын

You are right

@sonicfan82

Жыл бұрын

I agree

@rune.theocracy

Жыл бұрын

just go guru in the forest lol

@1984daydream

Жыл бұрын

I actually tried it and man it was so tiring trying to switch to almost anything because some of the proprietary apps/tools have been so much embedded into our life it's so hard to live without them.

@rune.theocracy

Жыл бұрын

@Basil i've heard many security experts confirm just as much too!

I remember an interview with Snowden, and for the microphone part, he would desolder the mic and use a wired headphone with mic when he needed it. A pain in the ass, yes, but, if you care, it's an option. Great vid

@lateral1385

2 жыл бұрын

It’s good security practice to always assume that any network connected microphone or camera can be accessed by a third-party.

@swagmuffin9000

11 ай бұрын

I ordered a soldering iron yesterday because of it. I hope I don't brick my phone, or burn myself too bad

Android permissions are sometimes missleading, dev may want to do something not vulnerable but to make it he need to ask for group of permissions that also can do weird stuff (like permission to do calls) its android fault and it should be more separated or even show that specific usage android want to use it for rather than whole permission and scare user

@xCwieCHRISx

2 жыл бұрын

You mean Google/Linux?

@thefrogge

2 жыл бұрын

@@xCwieCHRISx You mean Google/Java/Linux?

@chitrabarman8531

2 жыл бұрын

@@thefrogge You mean Google/Java/Linux/Dalvik

@MaebhsUrbanity

2 жыл бұрын

No, it's important though it is almost all made by google to distinguish between Android(Java/ART/Linux) and Google Android(Google/Java/ART/Linux), most notably play services.

@wolfiy

2 жыл бұрын

@@xCwieCHRISx as I’ve recently taken to calling it Google plus Linux

Wow! You really opened my eyes to the dangers of mobile technology. Great and informative video as always, Luke!

@GenericMeme42

2 жыл бұрын

Luke? I thought his name was Kenny

@lukejohnson5435

2 жыл бұрын

Kenny? I thought his name was Luke

@satyarsh665

2 жыл бұрын

@@GenericMeme42 thats the joke

@GenericMeme42

2 жыл бұрын

@@satyarsh665 okay I caught up on the deep fake lore 👍

@BogdanWeiss

2 жыл бұрын

One eye opened ? kzread.info/dash/bejne/haaplsGRcbzbdrg.html

If we ever fix digital privacy, that's when they'll roll out brain implants.

@boltez6507

2 жыл бұрын

Yup...

@ultra.based.27

2 жыл бұрын

Over my dead body

@ultra.based.27

2 жыл бұрын

@@afinelad3673 and?

@ultra.based.27

2 жыл бұрын

@@afinelad3673 who asked

@Kodeb8

2 жыл бұрын

@@ultra.based.27 It'll be mandated like the vaxx.

GrapheneOS is amazing. I'm so glad I switched to it. Although, I wish it wasn't on a Google Pixel because I don't necessarily trust the hardware. Once open source hardware/firmware with removable batteries are compatible, GrapheneOS will be unstoppable.

@fusion9619

2 жыл бұрын

When will we get open source hardware/firmware?

@sierra715

2 жыл бұрын

I wonder if there was some way to get GrapheneOS to run on a pinephone pro or librem 5. Really dont like PureOS that much

@Cookiekeks

2 жыл бұрын

@mewtwoy You can install lineageOS on the Samsung Galaxy S5 (with removable battery).

@dorferino

2 жыл бұрын

@@fusion9619 When the price of electron microscopes goes down and you slice open some risc-v SoCs to make sure it matches spec. It'll be a while until risc-v is completely open though, almost every module is proprietary such as video codecs, networking, etc. And I think there are either one or none cellular modem chips whose firmware is open source.

@v9466

Жыл бұрын

Can you get it on Samsung s21? I’ve wanted to get it but the only thing that’s holding me back is how I cannot get grapheneOS and possibly other similar open-source hardware on Samsung

It's hard to tell this is actually a cat with 4 eyes using deepfake technology at this point. Very impressive.

@tictac1020

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks to his new Threadripper rig he can really kick the deepfake and ray tracing up a notch.

Please try making something like a "How to Install a Better OS for Dummies" video, for normie appeal. I mean Android etc in this case but maybe PC Linux too. I think it would do well. I loved this one

@bz7842

2 жыл бұрын

A tutorial from Mental Outlaw would be nice. Meanwhile though, most of the common Linux distros have plenty of tutorials online. I recommend Linux Mint for beginners. The installation is fairly straightforward, plenty of tutorials online, and the UI is very similar to Windows

@madmoddingman24

2 жыл бұрын

Techlore has a video on installing Graphene OS; I think he rushes a bit but it's good overall.

@SMJSmoK

2 жыл бұрын

You can find tons of PC Linux tutorials online. Phones are more problematic though. Phone hardware isn't as standardized as PC, so the stuff you have to do to flash a new OS differs from model to model and it's usually a bit more involved (and risky) than an OS reinstall on a PC. Custom ROMs also usually only support a selected group of phones. Your best bet is looking up a tutorial for your specific phone model.

Very informative video. At first I thought "just remove the SIM card". The moral of the story is you need a phone with hardware switches, or a phone with a removable battery and wrap it in tin foil to be completely certain. Damn.

@gmakerc1

2 жыл бұрын

You could always keep it in a faraday cage, as well.

@frankmerker630

2 жыл бұрын

I only use mine whilst in a Hadron collider vacuum chamber

@BogdanWeiss

2 жыл бұрын

close, but not quite - one red pill down - plenty more out there - kzread.info/dash/bejne/haaplsGRcbzbdrg.html

@Gigachad-mc5qz

2 жыл бұрын

I wish librem 5 wasnt this fucking expensive

@PySnek

2 жыл бұрын

@@gmakerc1 I wonder if the cage still works, when I have my headphones connected while it's inside such a bag.

It's worth mentioning that tin foil is simply not enough to block some antennas. There are many videos showcasing that, without using enough EMF-blocking material, signals can still be sent and received.

@flipwonderland4181

2 жыл бұрын

but nothing could penetrate a double layer of tinfoil

@flipwonderland4181

2 жыл бұрын

I didn't think that tinfoil actually did anything at all

The pinephone also allows you to disable the cellular modem, BT and WiFi via hardware switches

@idcrafter-cgi

2 жыл бұрын

and it has native Linux support what makes it even better and if you really need android you can use waydroid

@theodis8134

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I have a pinephone myself and was going to point that out as well.

@PySnek

2 жыл бұрын

@@theodis8134 How long does the battery last and can I swap it?

@sasha2209

2 жыл бұрын

@@PySnek this reply for getting notifications

@terrydaktyllus1320

2 жыл бұрын

@@idcrafter-cgi (Gentoo) Linux has been my main OS since 2003 (and I started using Linux in 1996) but it is a less secure solution on a phone (as of today) than AOSP Android.

Kenny when he builds his next house: "Yeah yeah, just put 20 Layers of tin foil into the walls and let me turn the protection against EMF on or off via a switch"

@visheshjawa1408

2 жыл бұрын

it doesn't happen that way tho (I get its a joke) you can't just turn off your physical faraday cage

@PokeNebula

2 жыл бұрын

Cant you make a mechanical lever that opens an aperture in the foil?

@CrazyPlayer-pf2hv

2 жыл бұрын

@@visheshjawa1408 I would think of it such as like a moveable wall or like the curtains they use in gym halls. Basically if tin foil is stacked up at the top everywhere else there would be phone service and if tin foil is lowered down theres no phone service like here in Germany xD

@markmuir7338

2 жыл бұрын

My 1980s house seems to be already like that. So hard to get WiFi signals to reach the yard, even when you're standing right on the other side of the wall to a base station! They don't make 'em like they used to.

"If Uncle Sam wants you, he will find you" -Mental Outlaw a few days ago. if you want privacy just quit the internet.

@verycoolname8012

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, total privacy is near impossible and should only be used if you have done something to trigger Uncle Sam. I prefer to use the amount of measures to where I block out most privacy threatening things, without being so unique as to have a unique fingery

@PySnek

2 жыл бұрын

@@verycoolname8012 Total privacy is only nearly possible if you are rich. A regular job makes you very vulnerable.

@verycoolname8012

2 жыл бұрын

@@PySnek Very true, and your friends can also ruin your OpSec too, especially if they arent good at opsec

@lateral1385

2 жыл бұрын

But it’s *our* internet.

@swagmuffin9000

11 ай бұрын

Even not on the internet, you could be on white pages or someone's ig post in the background. You'll be somewhere against your will

Thanks, man i appreciate you looking into this subject whereas no other famous tech youtuber did ,all they do is review the phone but never talk about privacy when using it.... Im glad i saw this video now cuz i know for sure this subject will blow up one day

Drake sure does know a lot of techy stuff.

"That thing that we all use that's technically the largest collection of human wisdom and knowledge in your hand, but also is basically the thing we use to look at pictures of cats." -- Anton Petrov

@comradesusiwolf1599

2 жыл бұрын

you watch Anton? nice

If I were one of the alphabet boys wanting to track your phone's location after losing connection, I'd prioritise recording of accelerometer data. Theoretically that could reconstruct any route you take after lining it up with the locations where you both lost and regained connection.

@mattizie91

2 жыл бұрын

This doesn't work. At all. There is more acceleration up/down from walking or bumps in the road then there is acceleration in the direction you're going. You're more likely to end up on the moon than where you actually are using this method.

@n-steam

2 жыл бұрын

@@mattizie91 Bumps will cancel out, gravitational acceleration can be accounted for, yes Chaos Theory applies, and I did say 'theoretically'.

@TiagoTiagoT

2 жыл бұрын

Would be very approximate, possibly too much to be of any use, phone IMUs are not precise/consistent enough for dead-reckoning; just look at how easy it is to disorient an AR app just by getting something too close to the camera or getting close to some big metal object or a magnet.

@PySnek

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, the built in pedo-, accelero-, magneto- and barometer, plus the gyroscope can give you a good reconstruction.

@PySnek

2 жыл бұрын

@@TiagoTiagoT So the cage also has to be magnetic as fuck for the ultimate tinfoil-head experience?

Excerpt from the german wikipedia article about farraday cages (this isn't properly explained in the english article), translated using DeepL: Shielding of alternating fields (electrodynamics) An ideal Faraday cage also shields high-frequency alternating fields, because eddy currents are induced on the surface of the cage, which counteract the external field according to Lenz's rule. In this case, however, the shielding effect is not ideal, but is characterized by finite shielding attenuation and penetration depths into the shield. Faraday cages made of non-ferromagnetic metal shield high-frequency alternating fields due to their finite conductivity when the metal layer is significantly stronger than the penetration depth of the induced currents. Slits lead to the interruption of induction currents in the shield. Electromagnetic waves penetrate the shield comparatively well when slots in the shield are parallel to the magnetic fieldcomponent of the wave. The shielding attenuation decreases with increasing aperture and becomes small when the wavelength of the incoming electromagnetic wave is of the order of the slot dimensions. That basically means your bags are not impenetrable, espicially if they aren't closed off tightly. 5mm or 1/5" is enough for 60GHz (a 5G freq.) to get through. That kind of gap might be a zipper, an unseen tear in a foil bag or the slits in the visor/between the armour plates of medieval armour. Your phone might connect unexpectedly through an improperly made/maintained EMF bag. Also stay away from metallized plastic like chips bags or space blankets! They can't conduct enough induced current to cancel out the electromagnetic waves. A tight thick metal box is to go sure.

EMF bags could still leak sound, including ultrasound that you can not hear. Devices near you might be used to pick up ultrasound from your phone or send ultrasound encoded data to your phone. That technology is called soundbeacon and is officialy used for advertisments.

@DiogenesTheCynic.

2 жыл бұрын

Any way to block ultrasound?

@jannikheidemann3805

2 жыл бұрын

@@DiogenesTheCynic. Ultrasound gets mostly reflected by hard surfaces. I don't have any other idea for now. You could test what works with two smartphones and the right apps. Audio stuff isn't locked behind such nasty walls as our phones SDRs are.

@teacon7

2 жыл бұрын

solution: make it SUPER crinkly. alternatively, give it to a toddler.

@jannikheidemann3805

2 жыл бұрын

@@doctorwhoknows6348 Those wouldn't be in the same frequency range. You would have to jam the ultrasonic audio frequency range. Luckily jamming soundwaves is not illegal like jamming electromagnetic waves is under most jurisdictions.

I've been waiting for this! Thank you Mental Outlaw!

One thing that always comes to my mind when I'm watching any videos about online privacy is: how do you live a privacy respecting life without becoming a social outcast? I mean you're telling me if I don't want to be tracked by NSA I should have my phone wrapped in tin foil and only take it out when I want to call/text someone but what about others? I have my phone on me all the time because I need to be available for others in case something comes up. Also Signal is great and all, but how am I, a GNU/Linux nerd supposed to convince others to use it?

@Buttersaemmel

2 жыл бұрын

you can only get some privacy but never 100% privacy. let's say you meet up with a friend but let your phone at home for privacy sake... well you probably talked with that friend about when to meet up and where and that maybe even happened with the same phone you let at home. but now you got nothing from keeping your phone at home as it's known you meetup with that friend and so if someone gets your friends position he knows where you are. and thats just one case i thought of right now just out of the blue. even if you do everything needed to achive 100% privacy there are still things out of your control, that weaken your privacy. so in conclusion: if you do something for your own privacy you also do something for the privacy of the people around you. and also the other way around: if you're sloppy with your own safety you're also sloppy with other peoples privacy.

@Buttersaemmel

2 жыл бұрын

@Hoovy Simulator 2 better safe than sorry

Tracking with the real-time clock (RTC) battery would be very difficult, maybe impossible. I doubt it provides enough voltage, and even if it does the GPS / cellular chipsets in phones can draw so much power on boot they overwhelm that tiny little coin cell. Because of this, the coin cell should be isolated from the rest of the components so it doesn't get consumed for anything except the RTC.

Calyx OS and Graphene OS are great android based option with one fatal flaw. They only work on GOOGLE Hardware. So there goes all your security out the window.

@Shodan-lf1yv

2 жыл бұрын

Wrong. Calyx is being made available to some additional brands. Stay up to date.

@Cookiekeks

2 жыл бұрын

@mewtwoy That's not true.

@crzyruskie86

2 жыл бұрын

Doesn't matter what the hardware is. There's no way you can "activate" anything unless the software permits it. So being google hardware doesn't matter when its sanitized with Graphene OS or some other privacy OS.

@DiogenesTheCynic.

2 жыл бұрын

@@crzyruskie86 hardware backdoors can still be an issue. Regardless I own several nexus and pixel phones from google

@deusvult980

2 жыл бұрын

@Alex Bolidov Could you specify those security features?

>Smartphone >Privacy Impossible

@fisi

2 жыл бұрын

You need preferences... privacy > knowledge? Don't get me wrong privacy is important but even if you could get 100% privacy there are times wher it's better to go back... It's just your personal preference. I mean it is complex indeed. I use linux and I won't switch back to windows but I also use much closed source software and wine ther privacy isn't more important than usability but it's more important than your comfort... Just a personal preference but might be better if some would stick to that as well

@tontsar91

2 жыл бұрын

Incredibly hard to achieve but theoretically possible. It comes down to preferences, do you value privacy over convenience or the other way around.

@fisi

2 жыл бұрын

@Toni Rajalammi True facts. You're completing me 😂

About the phone keeping the time, once the battery has been removed, there is no dedicated RTC battery involved. On "modern" phones the time can be automatically pushed to the phone via the cellular network, via GPS, or via the Internet through the use of an NTP server. One could argue that capacitors could be used to store energy. These would be fine to power an RTC circuit, however GPS and cellular radios would need more power and I do not see "super" capacitors on PCBs when watching the many teardown videos out there.

@BHBalast

2 жыл бұрын

There are electronic circuits that use RF energy harvesting to transmit data. In the past there were even working radio receivers that used harvested energy to play radio stations. There is not much energy in RF signals, but phone modems are extremely efficient, so I'm sure it's possible, especially for low range.

@bufordmaddogtannen

2 жыл бұрын

@@BHBalast everything is possible, not in a market where margins are very slim and manufacturers remove components to save a few cents though. Unless these functionalities are embedded in a SOC without the need of "expensive" external components I would not worry about them.

@BHBalast

2 жыл бұрын

@@bufordmaddogtannen Today everything is in SoC including a modem with it's control software, maybe except SIM which btw. has its own microcontroller. And all of it is proprietary. I don't know if it's done, but it wouldn't cost much.

@bufordmaddogtannen

2 жыл бұрын

@@BHBalast I agree. What I meant is that if non essential additional functionalities are not added to a SOC by companies like qualcomm, it's unlikely that a phone manufacturer will spend money to implement them as it would cut into profits. Hence dedicated battery/capacitor backed RTC, or RF energy harvesting circuits for now are not a thing. One possible scenario to push RF energy harvesting could be attached to Apple Pay/Google Pay. Marketed as "No battery?No problem", where a circuit could harvest enough power and allow contactless payments when the phone is off.

@BHBalast

2 жыл бұрын

@@bufordmaddogtannen Agree. Technically phone manufacturer doesn't even have to implement or know about a backdoor if it's implemented on a silicon level with it's own logic, RFID already does similar thing with just silicon + antenna. I'm sure some ppl would buy that functionality, the technology is already there and it's basically credit card chip connect to an antenna.

I don't care so much my info is being sold, I care more that I'm not getting a cut of it. We need the privatization of selling your digital information. I should be able to sell my info at rates I find fair and reasonable.

@eustice2811

2 жыл бұрын

Best take I've seen in this comment section

@nac9880

2 жыл бұрын

I ain't selling shit that shit is too precious to trade

@eustice2811

2 жыл бұрын

@@nac9880 meh, I wouldn't care, I use adblock on everything

@nac9880

2 жыл бұрын

@@eustice2811 there's fingerprinting too. I should return to monke and be happy with nature instead of being sold as a commodaity in this dystopian tech hell world

@TheDiner50

2 жыл бұрын

... ... Troll. Every "free app" is paid by tracking and selling you ads. To some extent the hardware and software is made possible to be sold at the price it is sold at thanks to the "info" being sold. Google (Android and monopoly of the internet) That part is less defendable since most of the reason is cheap is due to labor in China. And the fact that software ones written cost basically nothing to fit into millions of devices. But the point is that part of the deal now is that your data is not yours. Since people DID NOT go agents this early on so now we have lost our rights to it apparently. It is bad enough that they sell the data. Trying to use it to sell ads etc. But it is far worse then that. And really all this unwanted data transfers kills battery life. FYI. That they have position and sound/video access. Knowing every move and every interaction we have. Is fine if you get KZread RED for free? Since that is about what you data is worth now. Not very much every year. Since this crap was allowed to being with and now people have no clue about basic concepts anymore. Like how speech assistants are not really there to help you but THEM. Try and explain the modern "trade" to someone say back in the 60-80s. Heck even in 1922. You can have a device that shows you endless cat videos and stuff out of this world that fits in your pocket that can do literally magic. But the catch being that you have to give up ALL YOUR PRIVACY and actively pay and service this spy device 24/7. If you do not carry it and service this device you lose any chance to a job or social life. And you have to pay and service this device EVERY DAY. Charge it EVERY DAY. Replace it EVERY 3 years. What are they going to ask you about? What else you can do on the device or WTF insane world did you come from? Why would anyone allow this for cat videos? I myself ask the same question. When did we go from the expensive device being a tool to a spy device? First Iphone really did not track you. So it is not really the smartphone that did it. It is a private tool as anything before it. But after 2008 or something what happened? Google. Social media. Annd?

When enough ppl support the privacy industry more options/competition will start to better improve our options, so support some company with patronage to help this growing industry. Thank you for your vids man

Could you discuss a "degoogled" phone if you already haven't

@deathkeys1

2 жыл бұрын

a very nice topic, I mean, I do not own a model that has a custom rom available. so, degoogling would be the next best thing.

@primary_magic1227

2 жыл бұрын

I wish grapheneOS wasn't so limited with supported devices.

@stevecooper6578

2 жыл бұрын

He did like 10 months ago kzread.info/dash/bejne/ipV8ucWtpKeWpLCW.html Also the CalyxOS videos

@John-ru4gz

2 жыл бұрын

What can you do with past pixel devices?

@lowwastehighmelanin

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I'd love his opinion on that subject

This is why I leave my phone at home unless I'm going to be out the whole day. I don't even take it to work. My work phone stays in the building and I never bring it home. It's the company's phone so if someone steals it then I just get a new one.

@terrydaktyllus1320

2 жыл бұрын

So the "mobile phone" you purchased is now not "mobile"?

@phucprice6698

2 жыл бұрын

@@terrydaktyllus1320 lmao

@nightfr09

2 жыл бұрын

I'd keep something on me for life or death emergencies. Even if it doesn't have a sim card, just something to call an ambulance w

@moister3727

2 жыл бұрын

I leave my phone for calls only with a custom secure rom applied, not connected to the internet or anything. I use the computer for mostly everything.

@panqueque445

2 жыл бұрын

@@terrydaktyllus1320 I bought a phone to call and text people. I'm not interested in having a phone/computer in my pocket everywhere I go.

love your content, so much to learn

I'm so disappointed in the modern smartphone. When I first started using smartphones I was expecting a computer that can connect to cellular network, what I got was bloatware. Nowadays what I have is a 6 year old smartphone that didn't break after a week of me abusing it to shit, and that I only use when I have no access to my computer. I don't mind using google or what ever app my employer ask for, but that stops there, I'll sign inn with my "public email" use google to find what I need, use a couple apps that I might need in my daily commute, but even signal is not allowed to see my contacts, storage, or position. can they still see it? I assume so, that's why I only take pictures of my dog on my phone, I wouldn't mind a couple extra leaked backups of my good pupper on the internet. everything else is going through a remote access to my computer, or simply "hotspot" to my laptop that I know is clean of spyware like screen peek or packet sniffing. What I really wanted was a pocket computer, what I got was a open door to my whole life story, with the ability to log, and back track... but no customization for "my safety".

Nice video 😃😃😃, really needed to keep social distance with the big brther, thank

Love your room. It validates my also equally empty looking house.

13:57 for this reason you should get a mic locker. It's this plastic thing you stick on the headphone jack (or the power plug if your phone doesn't have a headphone jack) and it hugs the mic, basically disabling it.

I would like to point out some things that may are misleading: Since Android Marshmallow, any app can't access a sensitive data (like the internal memory, GPS, contacts, etc.) without your explicit consent, and by Android 10 you can actually give temporary consent (let's say you want to give Google Maps the access to your location only when you're actually using the app) And by Android 12 you can block the microphone via software, so it's something

@K9arcade

Жыл бұрын

true, and it's an option to have it remove permissions if an app hasn't been used for a period of time.

I have been looking into this subject for a year now, and have been making notes and using all my skills and maybe one day I will find a solution ... thanks for the channel, I appreciate your work and recommend people follow all the time. I think, in the end the solution will be to have something that can 'layer on top of' (as in maybe sandbox/obfuscate?) so that ANY Google mobile can be used the same as Samsung One layers on top of android because (a) the Privacy OS's only work on certain phones, (b) the alternative OS's are great but not good enough at the moment for a 'daily driver' and (c) it needs to be 'easier' to achieve for the 'everyday person' who is interested but cannot (or not savvy enough) do the bunkum and swticharoo that you have to do before the install. I think this may be the future of Android, at least until the Security and Privacy OS's can work on ALL hardware like the current releases of Android thrown out there by Google.

I'll be watching this when I get home. Good timing. I recently removed all the zucc apps for privacy reasons, but I think the KZread app is also listening to my conversations as I spoke to a friend about schizophrenia and an hour later KZread started recommending me videos on schizoaffective disorder. (Wow, talk about irony -- just realized).

I remember the blackberry used to in its quick settings cellular connection, actually turning off the radio in it. Of course, it's software so not entirely trustable as well as having removable battery, and I've done enough with cellular networks to know that an RTC battery cannot operate a cellular radio unless they used some LoRa like tech hidden and basically this would involve obvious large components/silicon that the repair community would've found. also as others have discussed all modern phones I've seen do not use RTC batteries, my guess would be they get GPS/Dedicated time radio signals(I don't know how this varies by country though) time generally this time can easily be got during power on time.

@p5eudo883

2 жыл бұрын

I was really sad to see Blackberry get overshadowed by iPhone and Android phones. Blackberry did a lot of things right, which Apple and Google do not.

One problem with Faraday-bags is that a LOT of them aren't faraday bags (or atleast they don't attenuate the signal enough). Tin-foil for example also only works if the wrapping is thick enough. A good way to test the blocking of signals is playing music on a bluetooth speaker and then putting the phone in the bag. If the music keeps playing the bag is useless.

As a kid, watching a show i discovered the jammers and got the idea of, in the future, getting a pocketsize jammer. The tinfoil pocket sounds a lot better, and respectful with your surroundings

@chancepayne3013

2 жыл бұрын

Faraday cage's are like 1911 handguns, it's never not going to work for what it needs to do.

@TheFrantic5

2 жыл бұрын

The tinfoil is also a lot more legal. Jammers get you in trouble with the FCC.

Please continue doing those kinds of vídeos, you dont have idea how much they are usefull

i love your videos, keep going.

Adb is a life saver for me. Helped me get rid of most of my bloat.

The Pinehone also has switches to disable all the things you mentioned. Also the Pine phone costs under $200 were the Librem phone is an absurd amount of money.

A lot of phones with 3.5mm headphone jacks use the headphone cord itself as an AM/FM antenna, so potentially, a phone inside an anti-EMF bag with wired headphones plugged in could still recieve radio broadcasts.

You look so much friendlier than what I imagined from your voice!

GSM (probably 3G+ too) has a time signal as part of the protocol (CDMA does not have a time signal as part of the protocol). When you put the battery back in it's able to get the current time even on just voice and text only capable devices. You can test if it's getting it's time from the network by putting the battery back in while inside a metal mesh bag or faraday cage and checking the time before removing it. The mesh doesn't need to be super tight to block cell signals (less than one wavelength). A "faraday" pouch is 100% guaranteed to block the signal but it might be convenient to be able to just pull the battery rather than carrying around a pouch.

Even on computers people still just press next to the end when installing things, just like allow permissions on smartphones. A file management software doesn't requires permissions to know your location, however there's a search engine plugin included in the package that requires location permission. You're done

I love you thanks for all your videos

Most of the time, I hit the like button while watching your video with anticipation of seeing something interesting and informative. And, most of the time, it turns out to be the case. Greetings! Could we not install Gentoo on a flashed ROM and melt the thin copper traces to the spooky nosy circuitry? Oh! I'll put a switch in between the traces. That'd have been much better.

this handsome new anchor for the 24 hour Spooky News channel was a good hire

nice t-shirt, kenny! video is also great btw

Kenny is fully embracing the bachelor minimalism style of home decor

Note, I work with RF professionally and I can say that even one of those mylar bags or (faraday bags) will only attenuate the signal strength, not completely block it. Most phones will be able to get a small signal from within a satchel like that.

I have only ever owned 2 cellphones. First was a Palm Pixi Plus.. used it sparingly for 10 years. I was forced to begrudgingly 'upgrade' and ended up getting a Blackview BV5500 Pro, but I leave it off most of the time and rarely take it with me when I leave the house. Sometimes it lives in a metal box to fully cut it off from the outside world. I miss the physical keyboard of the Palm device. Been using the 1 year plans from Net10 that end up costing about $15 a month. Still too expensive for what I get out of it. Might not renew it next year. I hate these things. I hate that the batteries are such a pain to remove and often not removable at all.

fun thing about location access, I'm currently developing a bluetooth android app. And if you want to scan for nearby bluetooth devices you have to ask for location access. Which was very odd to me, but yeah I dont want to have to ask for this permission as I don't even use the location for anything.

Great video as always ^^

Idea for the deepfake commission the channel icon as a painting in the background. Feels like it would bring more to your 'cover' since in all honesty who has a photo of a cat in their living room and is below 27 according to the deep fake technology you are using. Long story short. Would you want to put the channel icon at the back as a painting?

14:05 then the best combination if probably the phone with hardware switches for the microphone, camera, antena, etc, and one of those bags.

10:00 kinda like a CMOS. i can see it being able to send out a short burst, but those are small cells with limited capacity. now that we cant remove batteries, its more probable that its always transmitting. short of a faraday cage, which absolutely works on 4G, its always online at a hardware level.

Great and insightful video.

pencil case + tinfoil + antistatic bag = cheap and ez faraday bag. i also reuse some of those foil takeout tins that have the foil lid, and they actually work pretty well. been working on designs for a RISC V linux phone the past month or so. hopefully i can get it finished and tested by the end of the year.

@minespeed2009

2 жыл бұрын

what riscv microprocessors/ SOC's are out there that actually have as decent enough performance to be used inside a phone? the only ones i know are the SiFive chips but they sip way too much power and everything else is more akin to a microcontroller. (and most are imac and not gc)

@PySnek

2 жыл бұрын

@@minespeed2009 He won't need much power, if it's 90% of the day in his tinfoil bag, turned off xD

@AlexZanderMuro

2 жыл бұрын

@@minespeed2009 im designing mine around a custom spec sifive u7 chip (more cache, more fancy features enabled, 6 cores) but im not too worried about power draw atm since the phone im planning on is going to be about the thickness of one of the old HTC Tilts that ran windows mobile, but with a screen/chassis about the size of a 5x7 notecard with a slide out kb. im aiming to make it like the rog phone where you can plug it into a dock and use it as a "desktop" but also a "mini mobile workstation" that just so happens to also work as a cell phone. slide out kb, 4-6000mah battery (minimum), dual usb c (one with an ethernet breakout cable and one for normal usb c stuff), 5g, 8gb dram, and a few other goodies. i really dont leave the house much anyway so the most itd have to stay charged for is about 8 hours. also dont even know if ill be able to get a one-off custom spec U7 anyway, so its kind of just a pipe dream/passion project/proof of concept atm to see if i can actually design something that does what ive wanted from a phone natively for the last 8 years.

It sucks you have to destroy the functionality of your phone to have it not track you

@PySnek

2 жыл бұрын

You don't destroy it. You use it in a selective way.

Another good tip is to avoid installing apps on your phone in the first place and just use your web browser. Unfortunately many websites like Reddit are getting very coercive in pushing you to use their app.

Netguard does a good job keeping all sorts of shit from phoning home / tracking. The pro version logs all the traffic (attempted) too. Cool to see whats tryna get out.

@aBc-123-XyZ

2 жыл бұрын

Don't leave home without it. 😎✌it let's you select a DNS also.

@srgantmoomooo

2 жыл бұрын

Its paid? Bullshit 🥱 is it proprietary too? How do you know they’re not taking your information for themselves.

@Infinitiddy

2 жыл бұрын

@@srgantmoomooo You could always get the paid version for free from a apk lol

@theodis8134

2 жыл бұрын

I'm assuming that's a piece of software in which case it can only track as much as the operating system is getting and providing itself. The modem itself is a black box and could be withholding stuff regardless of the operating system in question. And then the information received by the OS could be filtered by the OS itself before passing on that information to software running under it. Netguard might catch other stuff running at the same software level as itself, but if the OS is compromised or the threat has a backdoor into the modem itself, it's not going to do you any good.

@YerBrwnDogAteMyRabit

2 жыл бұрын

@@theodis8134 An excellent point, but let's go ahead and negate the modem from the eqation given the title of the video. GREAT food for thought tho. The reality is, we can chase our tails forever.

With the point at the end, I'd say securing your start phone is the most important thing. With the exception of assistive solutions like glasses, hearing aids, wheelchairs, etc., your phone is likely the only thing in your life that you carry with you all day and likely don't even have further away than arm's reach while you sleep. It has the capacity to know much more about you than anything else you own.

8:45 Worth mentioning the PinePhone Pro also does this at a cheaper price, but it is not fully out yet AFAIK.

Samsung use to have a software known as Odin to flash Roms or make Custom Roms but now it no longer exists unless you download a copy of it from another site. Sumsung also locked their Bootloader in their newest phones so you won't be able to use Lineage OS or a custom Rom you want to use

thank you for amazing content

Nice spin move last night Jason

Glad you’re using the webcam more nowadays!

I feel like the hardware is there. Just someone needs to implement it. I dream of the day I can run say proxmox to virtualize android while sinkholing every packet I don't approve of. Or alternatively a quebes-esque distro for smartphones.

Thanks for the tips

Lol, did you mark your KZread Sponsorblock yourself? Also, what lbs grippers are those Iron Mind's behind you? And also, the Pinephone ALSO has physical kill switches on their phone. And also, great video as always.

Microwave ovens also have same protective qualities as those bags since they're literally faraday cages

@-my4skinwastakeninasickjew426

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah mine does not block anything.

There should be a barometer for privacy. Yes I use MicroG that sends crap data but I can't modify the ROM.

@salpertia

2 жыл бұрын

At least not the stock rom

@burhanbudak6041

2 жыл бұрын

@@salpertia signature spoofing and microG install is way to hard. There are ROMs ready to go.

loves your beard kenny, any tips to grows one ? tried some tips from the internet but it doesn't works 🙃

An idea came to mind: a crystal radio can produce sound using radio waves as its unique source of power. Couldn't it be possible to have in your cellphone a component that produces and emits a signal with some personal data on it, using only radio waves as a power source? I know very little about electronics, but it might be something relatively cheap and easy to put in a phone. It would always be turned on, and by soldering it to the circuitry, maybe even incorporating it into an essential part of the phone, it could be extremely inconvenient to remove. The only way to escape big brother would be to own no electronics, and keep clear of it at all times. Maybe that's why governments seem to make computers and smartphone near mandatory for so many essential things... Anyway, gonna make me a new pair of tinfoil gloves, for the microchips they put in my hands.

Not only Librem 5 can disable antennas etc, PinePhone also can :) For Internal RTC battery - there's no way to be able to pull enough juice to power up something more than RTC clock inside CPU :)

Mental Outlaw, excellent video! I see you use Captains of Crush hand grippers, what number?

Yo your Drizzy Drake deep fake face is crazy good.

bruh, i love this channel more then my gf. 😂 well sad story we broke up 3 days ago XD

Based vids mental outlaw! Rock on!

If the phone is communicating with the tower, it's sending radio waves, which you can detect from outside the phone. No amount of phone compromise will prevent someone from noticing that, just like no malware uploading stuff to servers is going to go undetected in a lab where people are watching the router traffic.

I gotta say it's nice putting a face to the voice in your videos lately

The lack of hardware options, especially internationally, is a real problem. I'd love to get a Sony phone but those aren't sold in many countries any more and they have poor (almost non-existent) custom ROM support. So disappointing. I might just import one and jump through hoops for 5G and LTE at some point but that's a lot of money to essentially gamble.

I'm always proactive with my devices. I use android phones and I very strictly check my permissions on all my apps. I also always have location data and other buttons turned off most of the time, only manually enabling them when I need to. I don't do much browsing on my phone and have it set up to wipe the search and cookies when I'm done since I don't want anything saved on there. I also go into apps settings and any apps i can't remove i disable them to save ram and to turn off junk. There's more you can do I guess but this is a great start.

god damn. this guy is litterally absorbing light

The difficulty for me is going without all of these critical technologies. For me, the main services I couldn't really live efficiently without would be Google maps, KZread, Gmail, and the Drive suite. But here's the thing: while I am acutely aware of big tech's tracking and even misuse of my data, I think this tradeoff of my data for a free service that makes my life that much easier is fair. Of course I oppose censorship and deplatforming, and the centrality of it all, but until those things become major life hinderances for me, I am okay with them sipping off of my every-day life choices. If there were ANY other services that came close to these critical services for me, I would be jumping ship as soon as humanly possible, but as of now this would require "working around" issues in nearly every way. Unfortunate.

Awesome!

we need some sort of qubes os for phones. With the option for a panic switch that erases your E-Sim data, changes your phone's IMEI & Serial numbers to some random numbers and wipes all phone data clean ... Also the ability to have multiple device profiles with different IMEI numbers would be awesome there needs to be a team researching this also a way to ran any android APp in an isolated virtual android machine with all traffic routing through Tor would be bananas... If you can get all this... Then bun u can have a smartphone and truly be invisible

@alejadroigoyanes

2 жыл бұрын

With the option for a panic switch that erases your E-Sim data, changes your phone's IMEI & Serial numbers to some random numbers and wipes all phone data clean ... Also the ability to have multiple device profiles with different IMEI numbers would be awesome there needs to be a team researching this also a way to ran any android APp in an isolated virtual android machine with all traffic routing through Tor would be bananas... If you can get all this... Then bun u can have a smartphone and truly be invisible

Time related apps often use location data to determine timezone. If you've got cellular service, it's un-necessary since the phone should pull time from the cellular network but I suspect that's why time related apps ask for location.

I've been thinking about this for a while but it seems very hard to do. Afaik you'd need LineageOS, encrypt your smartphone and only do calls and messages over a VPN or TOR. Then at least you can't be easily associated with cell tower tracking data and any calls. But it's hard to find even a current phone that has good support by LineageOS :D It really sucks because you also need to "learn" the privacy issues of software on a different OS. Ideally I'd like linux on a phone, then you can use the exact same software and know what it does. But that is far from usable except for some very specific, old and/or rather expensive phones (pine etc.). Linux isn't really made for smartphones. And it would also be awesome if you you could also connect your smartphones as a laptop replacement, connect to HDMI and use in desktop mode (convergence). But all this is pretty rudimentary. There is just too little interest in any of this haha. So every now I search and try to find solutions but it's not looking good haha. And the same goes for tablets that you use at home for reading stuff on the couch... I shudder to think how bad it is going to get with augmented reality AR glasses.

lots of face cam vids recently great video!