![]() Cellphones are no different - there is spectrum, information is placed on and picked off that spectrum but there's no notion of 'frequencies' in the old-fashioned steam radio sense. Its the sort of thing that someone who doesn't understand how the MAC layer works - or doesn't even realize there is a MAC layer - would write based on their experience of wired networks. I've read articles talking in scathing terms about such and such a user 'slurping' up WiFi addresses, for example. I think that many people don't understand the reality of wireless. The tricky - I'd say impossible - bit is trying to persuade marketing types that this information is private and shouldn't be used to push advertisements at us. There's no magic to any of this, its just the engineering fact of life. Since location data for the mobile network isn't accurate enough for emergency calling there's been a requirement in the US for decades that phones incorporate GPS or similar to know where they are. The protocols also require the phone to accurately know the time. In order for a mobile phone to function the mobile networks - not just 'your' network but every network - will need to know what its unique identifier is and where. if we can't decrypt your data using our spy chips, then you must be a criminal, or er, a spy. ![]() It will probably come with their "ban on encryption" laws - i.e. Then once they reach critical market penetration, the AUS/UK/US governments (in that order, probably) will make it a legal requirement to have a spy chip in every computer/TV/phone, otherwise you must obviously be a terrorist/paedophile/unperson. It's a right pain in the arse apparently to get any third-party OS to work on a machine that uses this chip. They have the equivalent of Pluton in their T2 security chip. And Windows Modern Standby is nothing to do with saving energy- it does quite the opposite it's there to enforce that the backdoors are active at all times, even while your laptop is supposed to be turned off)Īnd if you think you are safe with Apple, think again. (Just like "Anti theft" was never the real reason behind "Intel Anti Theft" which later became "Intel Management Engine" which provides a backdoor into every Intel CPU. Maybe that's why they want to buy out Activision Blizzard, so they can foist Pluton onto the majority of gamers as part of the DRM package, and thus try to normalise the presence of their spy-chip in the desktop market. Otherwise there is a danger that your software might continue to work on your Unauthorised hardware!)Īll modern laptops (and some desktops too) have a Pluton TPM 2.0 from Microsoft, which spies on you from the CPU level "just to make sure you aren't cheating in games" apparently. (don't forget to turn on Automatic Updates, kids. Your only hope of privacy will be a vintage computer, but this will no longer run any modern DRM/security-protected software requiring a TPM chip. Either way, if you want real privacy, don't use a mobile phone.ĭon't use a laptop either.
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