I thought it would be interesting to raise this topic since increasingly more and more devices will be "AI Enabled" as time goes on, effectively nullifying end-to-end encryption since the AI is able to read text, do voice recognition, image recognition, etc. and will be 'phoning home' with it's findings. According to this guy, it's already a done deal. Any thoughts on the matter?
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Naturally, anything that has access to what is being shown on your phone screen will present a security issue if it can communicate with a remote server in any way. These so-called "AI assistants" that get crammed in all new phones do exactly that. This makes, as your post suggests, peer-to-peer encryption obsolete in the sense that even though your data is protected while it "travels", it's not protected when you access it on your device.
I haven't watched the whole video and am not sure to what extent these AI features can be disabled, but it's starting to look like the best option for gaining back any and all semblance of "privacy" (as thorny of a notion as that is in the current era), one would have to rely on something like an Android device with a custom ROM flashed in, for example GrapheneOS to replace the stock Android.
Here's an interesting table that compares the features of the most popular Android ROMs - Comparison of Android-based Operating Systems
In terms of iOS devices, you're sh*t out of luck unless you tinker with it in a way that will disable most of Apple's services, at which point why do you even buy an iPhone
The future is honestly quite bleak in terms of privacy. But that's not necessarily a bad thing. People love a challenge, and some tech bro out there will come up with a mobile operator certified Linux-based "smartphone" that will allow you complete root control of its privacy settings, and that might become the new standard for mobile security. Sure, you won't be able to use all the fancy apps that make life so convenient, because they connect to cloud servers and move your data around, but that's the price one has to pay for privacy.
I haven't watched the whole video and am not sure to what extent these AI features can be disabled, but it's starting to look like the best option for gaining back any and all semblance of "privacy" (as thorny of a notion as that is in the current era), one would have to rely on something like an Android device with a custom ROM flashed in, for example GrapheneOS to replace the stock Android.
Here's an interesting table that compares the features of the most popular Android ROMs - Comparison of Android-based Operating Systems
In terms of iOS devices, you're sh*t out of luck unless you tinker with it in a way that will disable most of Apple's services, at which point why do you even buy an iPhone
The future is honestly quite bleak in terms of privacy. But that's not necessarily a bad thing. People love a challenge, and some tech bro out there will come up with a mobile operator certified Linux-based "smartphone" that will allow you complete root control of its privacy settings, and that might become the new standard for mobile security. Sure, you won't be able to use all the fancy apps that make life so convenient, because they connect to cloud servers and move your data around, but that's the price one has to pay for privacy.
Since you are watching YouTube cyber news, I thought this link might interest you if you have not already seen it:
anonymousplanet.org
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On the topic of news ~
CHINA is a case study of where westerners or other civilized countries could be going in 1-2 decades. Of course the evolution manifests gradually and is already and always has been underway but still.
China has invested heavily, and are openly proud about their 'community safety' - their mass surveillance.
This is raw data as far as it's being implemented and I suggest you keep up on THEIR ai innovations. Their phones already have surveilled contact nets, communications, location, finance, heavy use of public ID's, evolving social credit systems, intensive internet censorship and surveillance, as well as extremely extensive organic surveillance(of humans as they are in the world), etc and they are investing massively into constructing not only the ai software necessary to collect and analyze and make 'use' of this data, but they are also building massive surveillance headquarters buildings where government forces are employed and actively monitor people. Various countermeasures exist against the population. Aacademics and Writers are getting censored or even punished (loss of employment etc), locomotion can be inhibited for lower class citizens (this may be as severe as house arrest situations, but more commonly limits which regions of china you can travel to -international flight forget it-, etc. And of course, I'm sure more extensive analysis and targeting is implemented for anybody suspected of anything not in the best interest of the state.
I would also like to point out that if you are passionate about this stuff, then it's important that we have people who can literally build a more ethical digital future for all of us. I feel like that is our most important focus, our future together, what will be, and what we can do. I hope that the cybersecurity community can focus on that more instead of being alarmed and insecure.
Consuming privacy content off of YouTube is so ironic...
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Online Anonymity
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Online Anonymity
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Online Anonymity
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Michael Bazzell
Is known as an expert in the profesional cybersecurity community, especially when it comes to intelligence and privacy, and he has written some good books.On the topic of news ~
CHINA is a case study of where westerners or other civilized countries could be going in 1-2 decades. Of course the evolution manifests gradually and is already and always has been underway but still.
China has invested heavily, and are openly proud about their 'community safety' - their mass surveillance.
This is raw data as far as it's being implemented and I suggest you keep up on THEIR ai innovations. Their phones already have surveilled contact nets, communications, location, finance, heavy use of public ID's, evolving social credit systems, intensive internet censorship and surveillance, as well as extremely extensive organic surveillance(of humans as they are in the world), etc and they are investing massively into constructing not only the ai software necessary to collect and analyze and make 'use' of this data, but they are also building massive surveillance headquarters buildings where government forces are employed and actively monitor people. Various countermeasures exist against the population. Aacademics and Writers are getting censored or even punished (loss of employment etc), locomotion can be inhibited for lower class citizens (this may be as severe as house arrest situations, but more commonly limits which regions of china you can travel to -international flight forget it-, etc. And of course, I'm sure more extensive analysis and targeting is implemented for anybody suspected of anything not in the best interest of the state.
I would also like to point out that if you are passionate about this stuff, then it's important that we have people who can literally build a more ethical digital future for all of us. I feel like that is our most important focus, our future together, what will be, and what we can do. I hope that the cybersecurity community can focus on that more instead of being alarmed and insecure.
Consuming privacy content off of YouTube is so ironic...
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