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      1 year ago

      Yeah. This meme makes no sense…

      Let’s avoid misinforming people please. The reality is bad enough, no need to start lying and deceiving

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        Google already has rootkits installed on about 50% of devices that access the web with a browser (Android phones).

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            FYI it’s perfectly possible to get rid of Google on an Android phone without rooting or messing with custom ROMs.

            Check out c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

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                I run my phone without microG or Goggle Play Services.
                Messaging apps run in the background so they can receive push messages, location works fine over GPS and speech recognition and synthesis works fine without Google Play Services or internet access (in English at least).

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                    Gigaset GX290
                    It isn’t supported by TWRP, Magisk or any Custom ROM, so Android’s settings and ADB are the only ways to manipulate it.
                    There’s no way to install microG on it. So I still use some Google stuff (Speech recognition, speech synthesis and GBoard), but I deny them internet access through Netguard so they can’t phone home.

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      While WEI definitely doesn’t qualify as a rootkit itself, any useful attester is going to require aspects of one - whether it’s a phone asserting that it hasn’t been rooted, or a PC running with approved SecureBoot and TPM keys.

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      There’s no way to say this one way or the other until it’s implemented.

      However to “verify” a system from a hardware level to any decent level of accuracy would require kernel level access.

      Technically you’re correct, until you’re not.