I saw some guys talking about calling home and spying software on the A5 thread, one guy said that phones which target Chinese territory often have spying software or the likes. Those things seems clearly visible from guys who program or hack android device. I wonder who does more spying though, the Chinese or the US/Europe countries. While the Chinese spying stuff seems clearly visible to programmers I wonder if what we have currently in our smartphone or computer isn't worse but less visible. I see a lot of guys who points finger at the Chinese but not many have a deeper understanding of each countries, (why things are the way they are), and that's because most official media are censored to different degrees. If you think the USA or Europe countries aren't censored you are clearly blind in my opinion. What kind of censored is used though, that is hard to say if you haven't studied each country. I tend to think our censorship (west) is less heavy than the Chinese but that is a wild guess as I don't speak any Chinese so I don't have much experience with them.
I haven't read much about that but I have seen a few articles saying that Intel chips has integrated hardware function dedicated specifically to spying to a degree that they can even take complete ownership of the device remotely. I think it was on the Richard Stallman website that I seen that mentioned first but I haven't checked if any of this was true and I don't have time for it either. A few other source also confirmed at least the possibility that chip manufacturer actually does implement spying software. I once heard the US was specifically annoyed by that since most things are build in China.
So I wanted to know if any guys here know about this kind of spying. Because from what I have read this kind is not detectable from the OS as it is hidden inside the hardware.
Also since the pro version comes with the less known processor, I wonder who manufacture that one.
All of this is so complicated and take so much time that I personally don't try anymore to prevent any spying activity unless it is easily done. I certainly don't want to end up like Richard Stallman who use a "15 years old" computer with an OS that is even less practical than Debian. I use windows and many think it has a lot of spying inside that stuff. Linux is too much of an hassle though sometimes I spend a few year on it but when I come back on Windows it is way easier and faster to get things to work, So sometimes you simply cannot do and don't have the time to mess with that.
On smartphone the situation seem even worse than windows, so I'm not even trying anymore. Maybe someone who spend a lot of times developing software can hope to achieve or can pretend to use an hardware without any backdoor.
One of the few good things about that worldwide spying is that to is use spied data from those huge database is supposedly very hard to do on a large scale population, and the data is probably often inaccurate.
Back the main topic of this thread:
If anyone have the new A5C or CC can you provide a good review about it
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