turns out you not being allowed to be root of mobile devices you literally own was culminating to this point

https://youtube.com/watch/...

would be sooooo fun for a hacker 🤷

Summary?

@Root > "Summary"

Both Apple and Google have put 'backdoors' into the root operating system and hardware that allow them to send+receive commands even when the devices are turned off thru low energy communication protocols (ex Bluetooth). No longer requiring a central hosting system using the internet, they'll could send a command across the mesh network to find your device to, for example, turn on the camera, wipe the device, etc.

@PaperTrail No surprises there. Intel’s Management Engine allows the same, and AMD CPUs have something similar too, though I can’t remember the name.

As @FrodoSwaggins would say: Fires burn in the distance, and Charlie is everywhere.

@PaperTrail and it works even if you power off your phone (though Android only the new versions)

which effectively means you can't disconnect your phone

also something this meshnet highway being able to send commands to phones... other than GPS tracking which you can't turn off evidently there's an AI chip for recognizing images in them now and the justification was "what if it's child porn" but people said no not even if it's child porn but the hardware was put in anyway even though they didn't activate it for the child porn scanning

so this culminates into
your GPS is always known, even if you turn off your device
some mysterious commands can be sent to any phone
you can't disconnect it from an Internet connection, because it will bounce via Bluetooth low energy until it hits a phone with Internet to call home from
evidently your photos and potentially all the cameras could be getting AI chip scanned as well at any moment 🤷

@PaperTrail a dude literally warned the world about this 20 years ago. This shit is built into the chips themselves. They can listen to you without a battery in your phone. The internet ignored him. He also said the surveillance shit they made under the patriot act would be used against US citizens (the world as well). They said he was a nut. The guy was on the team that developed this tech.

@Demolishun
Well, I dare say without battery they can't do a thing. Another thing is that the phone switches off way before it's actually at 0.

@CoreFusionX power through induction is a thing. The guy was not crazy. It would have to be really low power though.

Everything he said came true.

@Demolishun

I know about induction, I even mentioned it in another rant.

However, unless your phone is specifically designed to be charged through induction, and thus being able to power it, any other kind of induction in the circuitry is more likely to just fry the electronics rather than do anything useful.

@Demolishun > "They said he was a nut"

"They" also say 'if you have nothing to hide..'

I really want to meet this 'They' person.