> If you are truly worried about spy devices, you should really consider dropping your cell phone in the toilet.
> Honestly, if you're worried about this sort of thing, you shouldn't own a cell phone.
People keep saying this but not owning a cell phone doesn't help against being in the vicinity of a far-field microphone connected to echo?
Then your idea about pcapping 24/7, I'm not sure what this data would look like, but given that the software emitting it is closed-source and auto-updating, wouldn't it change every other update or so? You'd have to re-reverse the data every time to see what it's actually sending, sounds like a lot of work, like keeping an eye on a young child to make sure it's not creating/getting into any trouble.
You can call it "paranoid", but I think by now we have all seen enough reports about these sorts of things going wrong (on purpose or by accident), it's more reasonable to say that you are okay trading convenience for privacy+security than calling the people who aren't, "paranoid". It's 2016.
BTW if you can make sense of the pcapped data sent out, that means it's not encrypted, right?
> Honestly, if you're worried about this sort of thing, you shouldn't own a cell phone.
People keep saying this but not owning a cell phone doesn't help against being in the vicinity of a far-field microphone connected to echo?
Then your idea about pcapping 24/7, I'm not sure what this data would look like, but given that the software emitting it is closed-source and auto-updating, wouldn't it change every other update or so? You'd have to re-reverse the data every time to see what it's actually sending, sounds like a lot of work, like keeping an eye on a young child to make sure it's not creating/getting into any trouble.
You can call it "paranoid", but I think by now we have all seen enough reports about these sorts of things going wrong (on purpose or by accident), it's more reasonable to say that you are okay trading convenience for privacy+security than calling the people who aren't, "paranoid". It's 2016.
BTW if you can make sense of the pcapped data sent out, that means it's not encrypted, right?