Looking at this man's upload schedules, it is truly remarkable how often he's been uploading lately. Quality content not so easily made in 1 hour format every week? Truly ridiculous that YT algorithm rewards short and more frequent uploads that may lack quality more. Hope he'll get more subscribers soon. He deserves it.
IMO the format of his titles and thumbnails doesn’t help people give the videos a chance. It’s a shame considering how much effort goes into the content.
There's still death penalty in some countries/states. They lock people up against their will. They take their money to spend it somewhere else. If you heard it was a person doing that, you'd think they were a criminal and governments do that but that's because they are the ultimate display of force so no one can do much about It. It's a well known thing. It is what it is though, you can only work at your own scale.
How angry they get when they can’t control something… This should really tell you something about the regular communication company’s an cellphone producers
Really good timing to be posting this episode with the reveal that the Gov can see our push notifications and that they gave a hush order to places like google not to say anything about it.
@xscitobor1233, this episode is from November 23, 2021 podcast. Jack is just slowly trickling out old episodes onto YT. His most recent release is #141: The Pig Butcher. You might enjoy finding him on a streaming service if you want more content.
That is 100% what was steady running through my thoughts the whole time he's being held up by the feds. They've already displayed that they are operating outside of the law and have no regard for the entirety of the 'spirit of law', therefore it would be childish to presume they have any regard for his 'rights' (or his life), since what they're doing to him at that point is at least as criminal as the 'act' of Rendition. He had to have considered the outrageously suspicious timing of it all and realized it's time to put the book down and disappear when the next page of your life that occurs involves 'talking with' the feds, shortly after finishing the chapter where you're setting up a deal with CDS!? C'mon, man! (CDS used to be called "Alianza de Sangre" for a reason). He'd be a fool not to appreciate that he was now entirely out of his depth, and maybe he watched the movie "Heat" enough times to know walking away from it all was the only possible path that 'might' not have a dead end; kiss his wife and child goodbye, and bounce out on the FBI.
@@iviui2d3i2 Reminds me of that boondocks episode where Riley was selling chocolate and some actual organized crime mfs wanted a piece of him, then some rival gang came in and started blastin. lol Sadly for him, the FBI have connections to literally every other law enforcement in the US, so he pretty much had a 90% chance of getting caught before he could get to a country without extradition.
The juice wasn’t worth the squeeze. Feds could have put him in WITSEC, but why do that to you & your family, when you can just do the decade, keep the millions and not have to worry about looking over your shoulder forever. Cartels might have even had some dudes make sure he was solid in the Feds for not snitching. He could have gotten an azzhole judge who threw the book at him, but he was a businessman without a criminal record. 9 years, millions and no fears, is better than life in some podunk town, can’t speak to extended friends and family again and constantly living in a state of paranoia. I’ve seen enough instances where the Feds do snitches dirty and get them backdoored with additional state charges, after they get what they want.
I'm thoroughly impressed by the latest episode of Darknet Diaries. The insight into encrypted phones was eye-opening. I would love to hear more stories focused on India. As a nation representing a significant portion of the world's population, there are undoubtedly many untold narratives, especially in the realm of technology and security. A BBC documentary recently highlighted the tragic consequences of social engineering scams in India, particularly around microloan lending and subsequent extortion, leading to a deeply troubling spate of suicides due to the cultural stigma attached to such entrapments. This podcast has led me to believe there's a wealth of complex and perhaps darker stories to explore in India, especially considering our Prime Minister's reported involvement with the Pegasus project and the escalating sectarian tensions. Jack, your expertise in unraveling such intricate tech mysteries would shed much-needed light on these issues.
Agreed, but how do you have one without the other. Then you have the government who feels if you need privacy you're a criminal. It's a no win situation.
Why do we allow our freedoms to be obfuscated so easily? Since when are we guilty until proven innocent?. When did it become so easy to say that lowi level criminals are so much worse for us than high level criminals? And when did we become guilty by association without any proof we're doing anything wrong with tools that protect our freedoms? Fuck America. It's already a fascist panopticon.
But seriously, I'm lazy. I just assume everything, including things I say are being compiled. I don't try to pretend I can have privacy. These phones are probably the most spied on anyway.
@@Natty183 said _" I just assume everything, including things I say are being compiled"_ Good premise, but we still need to push HARD against all this intrusion or we're just a likely to get jailed for guilt by association because we're in the same system. It happens too often already that people are jailed because their fingerprint or DNA (yes, DNA) was "close enough" that the "qualified" investigator thought they were the criminal despite being completely innocent. Forensic "science" is far from rigorous scientific method and that needs to change yesterday.
Definition of a Cellphone: Originally designed for wireless communication, and endpoint computation. But around the year 2022 cellphones began to be repurposed as real time ‘sensory nodes’ for generalized Artificial Intelligence(s).The cellphone literally and metaphorically became ‘the eyes, ears, and mouth of ‘Generalized A.I’. This repurposing allowed generalized A.I. or group of A.I’s, to accurately perceive, predict, and control all human behavior. (Yeah let that sink in for a minute.)
Or make it so much customizable. You can choose the keys, type of encryption and how many times you do the encryption. Making it customizable with millions of possible combinations will make it harder to crack. IMO, at least.
You should do a video on how Push Notifications are insecure. All messages go through either Apple or Google and the metadata for each message is unencrypted.
This isn't entirely true, there's ways to handle push notifications without using proprietary services like Firebase. That said, Google has made it prohibitively annoying to use anything but Firebase for notifications.
There is due process, it's just that people are guilty of breaking the law on some level. Which gives off the appearance of no due process, but its always granted, it just doesn't always have an outcome people want.
With the 999th like, I gotta say you deserve a million subscribers and quite surprised you don't have at least double of what you currently have Jack. Great episode brother, as always.
When the wavy line finally completely fills the gap under the right speaker on the desk. Same magical feeling as when the dvd screen saver hits the corner perfectly
This seems like it would have been so easy to avoid. Couldn't they just have stated in a company policy that if anyone mentioned anything illegal that they couldn't help them? They didn't need a reason to wipe a phone, that's what people paid them for. If someone asked them to do something to aid an illegal activity they could refuse until the customer stopped being an idiot and asked because their phone was no longer in thwir possesion. 💥 I'm disgusted by lack of privacy too, when I have the resources I'd like to try rooting and de-googling, or whatever will still work in the future.
I mean you can do it on some phones sort of. Google does make it so the phone complains a lot when you shut down location services. With a little bit coding it is probably possible to prevent Android from reporting back to Google frequently, combined with log wiping and interruptions to location services you'd probably be able to cripple the usefulness of the data all together. Probably only gonna get this done on a pixel or something like that because it's easily rooted. . In an earlier version of Android there were apps that could force sleep the phone and while the device was asleep deny mic, camera and GPS access. I did it to a Galaxy tab S4 and the battery would only move 3 percent in a day if I wasn't using it. Which tells you it wasn't waking and phoning home. I think with a little bit of programming knowledge especially it is very realistic to harden and secure Android still.
@@notsam498 I have a lot to learn, 10 years ago I read something that made it sound like if I followed the instructions meticulously I could root a phone and install a popular setup but I bet it's a lot harder now. It looks like learning some programming os becoming mandatory if you want any control of your own privacy at all. I wish I'd known about those kind of apps back then. Thanks for the excellent advice, much appreciated!
Yes definitely something that could have been avoided, but these early people were first-time cases and they didn't have much reason to think it would be a problem. Certainly a lesson that future businesses are keeping in mind.
it's kind of like a comment I read somewhere on a different video...how do you identify the undercover fed etc? He's the one trying to pay you to do something illegal 😂
If I haven't said thank you before I'm saying it now, thank you! I enjoy and appreciate your content. Most get corrupted by the RUclips limelight but not you. Awesome, keep it up, and reach out if you ever need to confidently vent.
How did neither of you mention GrapheneOS? It’s the only good option for a hardened and secure OS. You need a Pixel device to install it on; but that’s it.
Yeah. I use graphene and it's been awesome. Not just private and secure, but more control generally. I went from being constantly annoyed at my phone making noise from push notifications I couldn't turn off to being able to forget it even exists until I want to use it.
I've seen a guy hack a phone by reading the passwords on disk, decrypting it with a key that's also stored on the disk. The scary part is not only do you export all your data to the cloud where it can be stolen, but more likely people just read it, but even if someone just has physical access to your phone, he can get anything he want, provided he has enough skill. It's like privacy doesn't exist if you're good enough.
Sounds like a really old phone using poor security. That or a specific software on the phone, potentially a browser storing passwords. Because even with older phones it does not work like that. Older phones can be vulnerable to various sorts of attacks, but not like you describe.
Google Pixel with Graphene OS is as close as you can get to a secure device. By default the USB function is set to tether and you have to unlock the device to transfer files. Signal SMS Proton VPN Proton Mail Proton Drive.
As for criminals, there could in theory at least be some judges, politicians or FBI agents who are not entirely criminal. Let me appoint the judges and I will send you to jail regardless of what you have done.
I don't understand how evidence gathered using such advanced hacking techniques can be accepted in court at all; anyone with so much skill can not only read, but also write, and the fact they're knowingly invading the privacy of innocent people clearly demonstrates they're not above embracing unethical behavior for their own benefits.
Just to add to the horrors of Sim swapping. A criminal could call your phone pretending to be someone else, record your voice, then use an AI to impersonate you when calling your phone company.
I've heard this, and it is _possible_ in theory, but I personally have difficulty believing this was used much or at all successfully in situations where it wouldn't have worked had they not done that companies don't really keep track of what you sound like. I have heard of this being used for _personal_ scams like fake abductions ad such, but even then I have doubt about how much it's being used and how successful it is, because I really don't hear much about it. It's certainly a bigger potential issue in the future when the tech is more well known and easier to use and more powerful though.
It doesn't even make sense. All you need for sim swapping is to answer common questions related to the individual, the voice could be even a robot, there's no need to get the target's voice, and it doesn't add anything more than anonimity if the call is being recorded.
Great video Jack. I thought you would have mentioned Linux phones (Linux running on a Pixel) or the Brax phone. BTW you also didn't mention the Session app which is more secure than signal.
Get the privacy that you make for yourself. Or rather you lose the privacy that you give away It's not that we don't have the option of privacy, it's just that most the options are not very private.
True story: They can also remotely hack and plant voices and thoughts into a humans head, using various frequencies and other abusive advanced military technology. •Brain to computer interface technology (BCI) •Voice to skull technology (V2K)
The timing of this right after senator Wyden's letter... Amazing. Anyway the Murena 2 launches next year. GrapheneOS. Faraday bag. Carry burners to the store if it's the serious.
You can't just opt out of data collection either. I just wanted to stop Google from collecting all my data but it takes away every useful feature. No reason for it
“Could”, ha ha ha! Apple and Google track everything and since the services often are free, the users accept to be the product. The users love to log how they move, sleep, surf and then whine about being tracked. 😂
The problem is nobody buys the privacy based stuff. You could go get a prepaid flip phone.. most people don't. They want the shiny new smart phone. Every attempt at a privacy based phone has totally sucked. The issue is we've been led to believe you need to choose between a good phone with the functionality you want/need and give up all of our privacy, or get a crap flip phone that only makes phone calls and needs to be prepaid and reloaded. This is bullshit. It's just that the companies that make the good phones want the data because they've realized how valuable it is. It's like trying to close Pandora's box at this point. Unless we can somehow FORCE them, it's never gonna happen.
Why the heck aren't the privacy-minded people just using Signal messenger on a CalyxOS device? or potentially even a stock Android is probably generally mostly kinda safe if they're _only_ using Signal or other EtE encrypted chat software. edit: I suppose at the end they do mention this. Although they only mention getting a Pixel, not specifically installing CalyxOS or GrapheneOS on it, which is far more private than stock Android. Even just installing LineageOS (ideally without Google services) is better than stock Android. Also note that Google doesn't really _make_ Pixels; the manufacturer is Foxconn. Probably even better that it's them than some sort of US-based manufacturer if you're worried about gvt. or Google spying. For those unaware, Foxconn is Taiwanese company, so they should be quite safe/trustworthy. The only problem being that they also have a lot of manufacturing being done in China, so in theory if the devices were made in mainland China there might be a vague slight change of some sort of compromise by the CCP but that is highly unlikely without people finding out. Even better(presumably/hopefully), Pixel 8 are starting to be made in India and Vietnam.
If my privacy is being invaded by law enforcement, the least they could do is enforce the law against those invading my "privacy." There isn't anything incriminating on my phone other than complaints regarding crimes committed agaisnt me the past 8+ years.
Cheap, secure solution: no cell phone. Yes, I am a genius. Unplug, de-stress, remove yourself from the surveillance industrial complex. You're not that important.
Because they will find a crime to charge you with eventually. We have the RIGHT to fight Authoritarian tyrannical actions by ALL governments. @ThunderDomeBoxingTalk
With Apple, I’m sure if you lock your iCloud and take the encryption keys from Apple as you have an opinion to do, destroy the charging port and give your phone a bath for a few hours I’m sure they can’t do anything with it. Stop looking up weird things on the internet and your internet provider will show a clean search history. That only leaves social media they can back door into.
@@katie7748 when will y’all understand that it’s impossible to be completely private when it comes to the internet? If you want to be 100% private then don’t use the internet, it’s that simple. The FBI can literally back door almost anything on the internet, theses social media sites track your data , comply with the rules or don’t use it and stop complaining about your privacy when you choose to use the internet every day.
@@katie7748 Seems like its you that doesn't get it. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS PRIVACY never was never will be. It's a man-made fantasy. The sooner you understand that, the happier you will be.
I wish there had been a law put in place that everything discovered from these phones couldn’t be used - to the point if the person owned one of these phones they automatically get a free pass on anything and everything they did, to punish enforcement for using this illegal method.
Illegal search and seazure is covered in the Constitution 🇺🇸 If they can't at least produce a warrant with probable cause then they're breaking the law.
what's the bassy music that starts at 8:00 ?? i tried aha-music, both the browser plugin, and uploading a clip to their song identifier.. no luck, probably because of the speech over top but the music audio is subtle too. shazam also no result
Top tier organized crime.....NO, top tier is government. If you look at what they do, you'll see their hand. Actions speak louder than words. They hate competition.
Makes me so uncomfortable now even though I love in the country that Coles and Woolworths have so many cameras and now have added security gates as well....
Jack would never have survived the decades of party line phones where anyone could sit and listen into ongoing conversations. So now radio enthusiasts will be happy because shortwave will become new tech again.
Using an android phone or an apple phone guarantees that your communications are not private. Even if you do have end to end encrypted messaging through apps like Signal your OS has access to all of it to either be sent to Apple or Google or backdoored to law enforcement can bypass if you have the phone encrypted. If you want real private messaging, till you own or use paper and a pencil.
ha, I went the iPod touch way after seeing baseband hack videos. Really wish it could be a bit bigger though... And i believe they've been discontinued now too :(
At this point i could care less about features. This is what i want in my next phone Decent Camera Simple Web apps Firefox Privacy Root Access If it could run linux that would be a + And the ability to actually call
This is why you never keep anything, or do anything important on a phone. My phone may as well be an old land line telephone, for all the info anyone will get.
Gov subsidized phones come pre loaded with 2 different spywares, one woven into the settings app so if ever removed the phone bricks. The other seems to be chinese.. oh and thats not counting the ones it downloads in on system update a few weeks after activation.
It's actually kind of ironic. If you want one of the most private and secure devices, you can get on the market currently. You need to get a Google Pixel and root it
My current phone doesnt allow me to unlock the bootloader. No OEM unlock. I hate it. If I could just get root access to the device I could remove bloatware and be able to minimize the spying bs
25:00 Canadian authorities believe they made 32 million and the FBI estimate was 80 million. I think FBI based their estimates off the value of assets (keep in mind usually not paid in full but bought with loans) and they expected to make more with the apartment acquisition to pay it off. USA legal system tends to artificially inflate value of income or possible income from illegal activities.
There is a solution: Dumbphones. The mafia pays $ +5000 for a privacy keeping Nokia bone phone that can just one thing: talking over distance. So it's a fight between your higher demands on the possibilities of a portable computer and your privacy. You can also tool time linux on a phome, if you can speak sudo.
99%sure encro guys where flipped and created the anom service which was a honey pot from word go. Also if phantom is the one I am thinking of they were so prolific in aus that even me a normal civi could get them for 1k at one point, they were all blackberrys but might have been something diff
Purely for secure messaging (setting aside device security or compromise, side channel attacks, etc) do these custom encrypted phones really offer any additional protection over well-known secure chat apps like Signal or Briar? I am wondering why criminals would spend so much money and go with companies that could potentially be run by their opposition over much more widespread and disinterested options that they could blend into the background more easily.
People who care about their privacy are treated like criminals, it's ridiculous.
If you are not working for my government, you are criminal by default
"if you have nothing to hide what are you so worried about?" is the most annoying statement for me.
Your mom found a was in the darkness too 😏
@Youngbl33zy is English your first language?
@@PatReid1775 no
Looking at this man's upload schedules, it is truly remarkable how often he's been uploading lately. Quality content not so easily made in 1 hour format every week? Truly ridiculous that YT algorithm rewards short and more frequent uploads that may lack quality more. Hope he'll get more subscribers soon. He deserves it.
IMO the format of his titles and thumbnails doesn’t help people give the videos a chance. It’s a shame considering how much effort goes into the content.
@@kzrlgohey I’m interested in your reasons/input on this….
Only said by the publisher. 😂
Yeah he really deserves a big push for sure!
I think Jack is just uploading older episodes onto youtube, his schedule for new episodes is usually around once a month.
When law enforcement more criminals than real criminals
We sign it all away with a smile.
Always were
There's still death penalty in some countries/states. They lock people up against their will. They take their money to spend it somewhere else. If you heard it was a person doing that, you'd think they were a criminal and governments do that but that's because they are the ultimate display of force so no one can do much about It. It's a well known thing. It is what it is though, you can only work at your own scale.
Modus operandi
fusus on aws
How angry they get when they can’t control something… This should really tell you something about the regular communication company’s an cellphone producers
Really good timing to be posting this episode with the reveal that the Gov can see our push notifications and that they gave a hush order to places like google not to say anything about it.
Data from push notifications* that's more than just the text or whatever
@@Thisguy88191 Never said it wasn't the data, nor specified it was just text
@xscitobor1233, this episode is from November 23, 2021 podcast. Jack is just slowly trickling out old episodes onto YT. His most recent release is #141: The Pig Butcher. You might enjoy finding him on a streaming service if you want more content.
@@ck17350 didn't ask, also ik I listen to the podcast i was commenting more on the re release timing with the news
I think Vince Ramos valued his life. If he put the back door in for the FBI & Crime Authorities, he would basically be signing his Death Warrant.
That is 100% what was steady running through my thoughts the whole time he's being held up by the feds. They've already displayed that they are operating outside of the law and have no regard for the entirety of the 'spirit of law', therefore it would be childish to presume they have any regard for his 'rights' (or his life), since what they're doing to him at that point is at least as criminal as the 'act' of Rendition.
He had to have considered the outrageously suspicious timing of it all and realized it's time to put the book down and disappear when the next page of your life that occurs involves 'talking with' the feds, shortly after finishing the chapter where you're setting up a deal with CDS!? C'mon, man! (CDS used to be called "Alianza de Sangre" for a reason). He'd be a fool not to appreciate that he was now entirely out of his depth, and maybe he watched the movie "Heat" enough times to know walking away from it all was the only possible path that 'might' not have a dead end; kiss his wife and child goodbye, and bounce out on the FBI.
@@iviui2d3i2 Reminds me of that boondocks episode where Riley was selling chocolate and some actual organized crime mfs wanted a piece of him, then some rival gang came in and started blastin. lol
Sadly for him, the FBI have connections to literally every other law enforcement in the US, so he pretty much had a 90% chance of getting caught before he could get to a country without extradition.
The juice wasn’t worth the squeeze. Feds could have put him in WITSEC, but why do that to you & your family, when you can just do the decade, keep the millions and not have to worry about looking over your shoulder forever. Cartels might have even had some dudes make sure he was solid in the Feds for not snitching.
He could have gotten an azzhole judge who threw the book at him, but he was a businessman without a criminal record. 9 years, millions and no fears, is better than life in some podunk town, can’t speak to extended friends and family again and constantly living in a state of paranoia. I’ve seen enough instances where the Feds do snitches dirty and get them backdoored with additional state charges, after they get what they want.
It is always a pleasure when Jack Rhysider uploads!
i’m happily a patron of him
I'm thoroughly impressed by the latest episode of Darknet Diaries. The insight into encrypted phones was eye-opening. I would love to hear more stories focused on India. As a nation representing a significant portion of the world's population, there are undoubtedly many untold narratives, especially in the realm of technology and security. A BBC documentary recently highlighted the tragic consequences of social engineering scams in India, particularly around microloan lending and subsequent extortion, leading to a deeply troubling spate of suicides due to the cultural stigma attached to such entrapments. This podcast has led me to believe there's a wealth of complex and perhaps darker stories to explore in India, especially considering our Prime Minister's reported involvement with the Pegasus project and the escalating sectarian tensions. Jack, your expertise in unraveling such intricate tech mysteries would shed much-needed light on these issues.
I'd love to learn about Indian security as well. Y'all have SO MANY engineers. It's gotta be chaotic as heck over there...
Yeah so what do you expect?? they will use it against you ofcourse
@@lowwastehighmelanin If I could be an Indian Security Engineer, I would be so happy...
BlackBerry was private...that's why it's no longer available
Hardware, true.
100%
This.
Flip phones are probably more private than smart ones..... but they're still glowable which is why you can still buy them.
Bro this is the most personally relatable video you have ever made. I want privacy, but i do not want devices associated with criminals.
Agreed, but how do you have one without the other. Then you have the government who feels if you need privacy you're a criminal. It's a no win situation.
??? Life is short. Have your cake and eat it too
Why do we allow our freedoms to be obfuscated so easily? Since when are we guilty until proven innocent?. When did it become so easy to say that lowi level criminals are so much worse for us than high level criminals? And when did we become guilty by association without any proof we're doing anything wrong with tools that protect our freedoms? Fuck America. It's already a fascist panopticon.
But seriously, I'm lazy. I just assume everything, including things I say are being compiled. I don't try to pretend I can have privacy. These phones are probably the most spied on anyway.
@@Natty183 said _" I just assume everything, including things I say are being compiled"_
Good premise, but we still need to push HARD against all this intrusion or we're just a likely to get jailed for guilt by association because we're in the same system. It happens too often already that people are jailed because their fingerprint or DNA (yes, DNA) was "close enough" that the "qualified" investigator thought they were the criminal despite being completely innocent. Forensic "science" is far from rigorous scientific method and that needs to change yesterday.
Definition of a Cellphone: Originally designed for wireless communication, and endpoint computation. But around the year 2022 cellphones began to be repurposed as real time ‘sensory nodes’ for generalized Artificial Intelligence(s).The cellphone literally and metaphorically became ‘the eyes, ears, and mouth of ‘Generalized A.I’. This repurposing allowed generalized A.I. or group of A.I’s, to accurately perceive, predict, and control all human behavior. (Yeah let that sink in for a minute.)
At this stage, the only way to get your hands on a privacy phone is to write the code yourself 😅
developers assemble
Or make it so much customizable. You can choose the keys, type of encryption and how many times you do the encryption. Making it customizable with millions of possible combinations will make it harder to crack. IMO, at least.
You should do a video on how Push Notifications are insecure. All messages go through either Apple or Google and the metadata for each message is unencrypted.
there are other ways too, but they are not that convenient. (threema allows other notification methods)
This was in the news recently, the capability to exploit push notifications for surveillance.
@@xCheddarB0b42x I think that is not what they meant
This isn't entirely true, there's ways to handle push notifications without using proprietary services like Firebase. That said, Google has made it prohibitively annoying to use anything but Firebase for notifications.
Such violations of human decency and rights. There is no due process when spyware is used whatsoever.
There is due process, it's just that people are guilty of breaking the law on some level. Which gives off the appearance of no due process, but its always granted, it just doesn't always have an outcome people want.
Amazon knew a guys daughter was pregnant before he knew and started spamming the family baby stuff ads.
Bezos' a whole bitch for that one. It's one thing to invade my privacy and sell me like a cheap trick, but snitching to the parents...
That story was about Target, that’s why he mentioned that example in the beginning. Not that it makes a difference but figured I’d let you know
With the 999th like, I gotta say you deserve a million subscribers and quite surprised you don't have at least double of what you currently have Jack. Great episode brother, as always.
Your stories get me through work
Man i see an upload on my day off im excited to go in the mext day bc ik that first hour or so will be pretty okay
When the wavy line finally completely fills the gap under the right speaker on the desk. Same magical feeling as when the dvd screen saver hits the corner perfectly
Thank you for the content Jack
This is the craziest story I've heard in a long time on so many levels. Orwell would be dumbfounded.
This seems like it would have been so easy to avoid. Couldn't they just have stated in a company policy that if anyone mentioned anything illegal that they couldn't help them? They didn't need a reason to wipe a phone, that's what people paid them for. If someone asked them to do something to aid an illegal activity they could refuse until the customer stopped being an idiot and asked because their phone was no longer in thwir possesion. 💥
I'm disgusted by lack of privacy too, when I have the resources I'd like to try rooting and de-googling, or whatever will still work in the future.
I mean you can do it on some phones sort of. Google does make it so the phone complains a lot when you shut down location services. With a little bit coding it is probably possible to prevent Android from reporting back to Google frequently, combined with log wiping and interruptions to location services you'd probably be able to cripple the usefulness of the data all together.
Probably only gonna get this done on a pixel or something like that because it's easily rooted.
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In an earlier version of Android there were apps that could force sleep the phone and while the device was asleep deny mic, camera and GPS access. I did it to a Galaxy tab S4 and the battery would only move 3 percent in a day if I wasn't using it. Which tells you it wasn't waking and phoning home.
I think with a little bit of programming knowledge especially it is very realistic to harden and secure Android still.
@@notsam498 I have a lot to learn, 10 years ago I read something that made it sound like if I followed the instructions meticulously I could root a phone and install a popular setup but I bet it's a lot harder now. It looks like learning some programming os becoming mandatory if you want any control of your own privacy at all. I wish I'd known about those kind of apps back then.
Thanks for the excellent advice, much appreciated!
Yes definitely something that could have been avoided, but these early people were first-time cases and they didn't have much reason to think it would be a problem. Certainly a lesson that future businesses are keeping in mind.
it's kind of like a comment I read somewhere on a different video...how do you identify the undercover fed etc? He's the one trying to pay you to do something illegal 😂
don't root your phone, it's counterproductive to security and weakens android's security model
just buy a pixel, install graphene os and call it a day
I send cash to an organization that regularly breaks the law. I pay taxes.
If I haven't said thank you before I'm saying it now, thank you! I enjoy and appreciate your content. Most get corrupted by the RUclips limelight but not you. Awesome, keep it up, and reach out if you ever need to confidently vent.
How did neither of you mention GrapheneOS? It’s the only good option for a hardened and secure OS. You need a Pixel device to install it on; but that’s it.
Yeah. I use graphene and it's been awesome. Not just private and secure, but more control generally. I went from being constantly annoyed at my phone making noise from push notifications I couldn't turn off to being able to forget it even exists until I want to use it.
right, it also seems more convenient than using an ipod as you main driver
I've seen a guy hack a phone by reading the passwords on disk, decrypting it with a key that's also stored on the disk. The scary part is not only do you export all your data to the cloud where it can be stolen, but more likely people just read it, but even if someone just has physical access to your phone, he can get anything he want, provided he has enough skill. It's like privacy doesn't exist if you're good enough.
Sounds like a really old phone using poor security. That or a specific software on the phone, potentially a browser storing passwords. Because even with older phones it does not work like that.
Older phones can be vulnerable to various sorts of attacks, but not like you describe.
Google Pixel with Graphene OS is as close as you can get to a secure device. By default the USB function is set to tether and you have to unlock the device to transfer files. Signal SMS Proton VPN Proton Mail Proton Drive.
It never did. In the past the professionals were experts in covert entry, surveilance techniques, eavesdropping and interrogation. Many still are.
It's like a lock it can be hard to break but if your experienced and skilled enough it becomes ridiculously easy.
LMAO turn off my cell phone...
You go ahead and do that.
Still LMMFAO🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😭
As for criminals, there could in theory at least be some judges, politicians or FBI agents who are not entirely criminal. Let me appoint the judges and I will send you to jail regardless of what you have done.
I don't understand how evidence gathered using such advanced hacking techniques can be accepted in court at all; anyone with so much skill can not only read, but also write, and the fact they're knowingly invading the privacy of innocent people clearly demonstrates they're not above embracing unethical behavior for their own benefits.
It's probably very easy for the FBI to intimidate the juries and judges, they probably just threaten to send them to guantanimo if they don't comply.
Well said!
Just to add to the horrors of Sim swapping. A criminal could call your phone pretending to be someone else, record your voice, then use an AI to impersonate you when calling your phone company.
use Multi-factor Authentication for one. For two, how would a random person in a cell center know what you sound like???
@@omegadroidzero Sadly even the Pentagon got hacked by some dude calling tech support pretending to be a company Chief Financial Officer.
I've heard this, and it is _possible_ in theory, but I personally have difficulty believing this was used much or at all successfully in situations where it wouldn't have worked had they not done that companies don't really keep track of what you sound like.
I have heard of this being used for _personal_ scams like fake abductions ad such, but even then I have doubt about how much it's being used and how successful it is, because I really don't hear much about it. It's certainly a bigger potential issue in the future when the tech is more well known and easier to use and more powerful though.
@@MsHojat There is a darknet diaries episode about it.
It doesn't even make sense. All you need for sim swapping is to answer common questions related to the individual, the voice could be even a robot, there's no need to get the target's voice, and it doesn't add anything more than anonimity if the call is being recorded.
Jack, for what you said in the intro, what do you think about GrapheneOS?
Great video Jack. I thought you would have mentioned Linux phones (Linux running on a Pixel) or the Brax phone. BTW you also didn't mention the Session app which is more secure than signal.
Not a single mention or comment about GrapheneOS??
Entrapment by third party needs to be against the law!
It's terrible how we have zero privacy what so ever..
What's worse is people who think somehow if they do this, that, or the other, that they DO have privacy SMH
Get the privacy that you make for yourself. Or rather you lose the privacy that you give away It's not that we don't have the option of privacy, it's just that most the options are not very private.
The ultimate opsec is not having a phone or computer and living a life style that doesn’t require one
So basically being old school amish lol
I’m not living in da wuds
who would have thought the gov has backdoors for tech? our privacy is a joke for a long time now.
Government: You can't transmit on our bandwidth without us having a tap on your frequencies!
True story: They can also remotely hack and plant voices and thoughts into a humans head, using various frequencies and other abusive advanced military technology.
•Brain to computer interface technology (BCI)
•Voice to skull technology (V2K)
if you want privacy you are going to have to go old school. Sealed hand delivered letters by someone you trust, and conversations in person.
The timing of this right after senator Wyden's letter... Amazing.
Anyway the Murena 2 launches next year. GrapheneOS. Faraday bag. Carry burners to the store if it's the serious.
You can't just opt out of data collection either. I just wanted to stop Google from collecting all my data but it takes away every useful feature. No reason for it
People say they want privacy yet they post every second of their lives on social mdia.
Those are 2 different groups of people
I could imagine that Google and Apple could use the info they have on us to control us😢
Are using* :)
We are just lucky their interest is capitalism so far.
“Could”, ha ha ha!
Apple and Google track everything and since the services often are free, the users accept to be the product. The users love to log how they move, sleep, surf and then whine about being tracked. 😂
@@dannyynnad-u4pthats generous
@@dannyynnad-u4pTheir bosses, however, are interested in much more than that. Which is why They do NOTHING to stop it.
Thank god. I’ve missed you. Love the show!
The problem is nobody buys the privacy based stuff. You could go get a prepaid flip phone.. most people don't. They want the shiny new smart phone. Every attempt at a privacy based phone has totally sucked. The issue is we've been led to believe you need to choose between a good phone with the functionality you want/need and give up all of our privacy, or get a crap flip phone that only makes phone calls and needs to be prepaid and reloaded. This is bullshit. It's just that the companies that make the good phones want the data because they've realized how valuable it is. It's like trying to close Pandora's box at this point. Unless we can somehow FORCE them, it's never gonna happen.
Why the heck aren't the privacy-minded people just using Signal messenger on a CalyxOS device? or potentially even a stock Android is probably generally mostly kinda safe if they're _only_ using Signal or other EtE encrypted chat software.
edit: I suppose at the end they do mention this. Although they only mention getting a Pixel, not specifically installing CalyxOS or GrapheneOS on it, which is far more private than stock Android. Even just installing LineageOS (ideally without Google services) is better than stock Android.
Also note that Google doesn't really _make_ Pixels; the manufacturer is Foxconn. Probably even better that it's them than some sort of US-based manufacturer if you're worried about gvt. or Google spying. For those unaware, Foxconn is Taiwanese company, so they should be quite safe/trustworthy. The only problem being that they also have a lot of manufacturing being done in China, so in theory if the devices were made in mainland China there might be a vague slight change of some sort of compromise by the CCP but that is highly unlikely without people finding out. Even better(presumably/hopefully), Pixel 8 are starting to be made in India and Vietnam.
do you have twitter?
If my privacy is being invaded by law enforcement, the least they could do is enforce the law against those invading my "privacy." There isn't anything incriminating on my phone other than complaints regarding crimes committed agaisnt me the past 8+ years.
Does the federal government and it's agents PROFIT from crime, criminal activity, etc? Don't they fine people? Etc.
33:22 it wasn’t reverse engineering. They had source code
Cheap, secure solution: no cell phone. Yes, I am a genius. Unplug, de-stress, remove yourself from the surveillance industrial complex. You're not that important.
Amen
If you’re not that important then why not just use their phones anyway?
Because they will find a crime to charge you with eventually. We have the RIGHT to fight Authoritarian tyrannical actions by ALL governments. @ThunderDomeBoxingTalk
Authorities posed as criminals?
That's like saying William Shakespeare posed as a writer and poet.
Classic authorities
Cultural appropriation.
Absolutely a treat, every time, thanks for the frequent uploads, every time I see one I get exited
With Apple, I’m sure if you lock your iCloud and take the encryption keys from Apple as you have an opinion to do, destroy the charging port and give your phone a bath for a few hours I’m sure they can’t do anything with it. Stop looking up weird things on the internet and your internet provider will show a clean search history. That only leaves social media they can back door into.
Dang, you don't get it. Sigh.
Put simply, no. And there's a difference between secret and private.
@@katie7748 when will y’all understand that it’s impossible to be completely private when it comes to the internet? If you want to be 100% private then don’t use the internet, it’s that simple. The FBI can literally back door almost anything on the internet, theses social media sites track your data , comply with the rules or don’t use it and stop complaining about your privacy when you choose to use the internet every day.
@@katie7748 Seems like its you that doesn't get it. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS PRIVACY never was never will be. It's a man-made fantasy. The sooner you understand that, the happier you will be.
I wish there had been a law put in place that everything discovered from these phones couldn’t be used - to the point if the person owned one of these phones they automatically get a free pass on anything and everything they did, to punish enforcement for using this illegal method.
Illegal search and seazure is covered in the Constitution 🇺🇸
If they can't at least produce a warrant with probable cause then they're breaking the law.
2:00 never trust a person who pronounces "coupons" as Kew-pons. They 100% feds
Lol
what's the bassy music that starts at 8:00 ??
i tried aha-music, both the browser plugin, and uploading a clip to their song identifier.. no luck, probably because of the speech over top but the music audio is subtle too.
shazam also no result
Top tier organized crime.....NO, top tier is government. If you look at what they do, you'll see their hand. Actions speak louder than words.
They hate competition.
Blue line gang is just the bottom rung of that ladder.
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I'm tired of this lazy canard. If you want better government, vote smarter and get involved in your community.
The reason why the phantom phone most likely took of here in the AU is we have mandatory data retention laws forced on us.
Makes me so uncomfortable now even though I love in the country that Coles and Woolworths have so many cameras and now have added security gates as well....
As far as I'm concerned every cell phone should be free 10 years ago😂 collecting data for free for decade
I can't understand how this channel is so underrated
A lot of his listeners access these episodes via the podcast.
Leave it to Jack to find a way to use a phone with no Sim, mind Blown, well played Sir.
He just gets better!!!!! This was an awesome episode !!!
Jack would never have survived the decades of party line phones where anyone could sit and listen into ongoing conversations. So now radio enthusiasts will be happy because shortwave will become new tech again.
At least people were aware of what data was being shared on those lines....
Using an android phone or an apple phone guarantees that your communications are not private. Even if you do have end to end encrypted messaging through apps like Signal your OS has access to all of it to either be sent to Apple or Google or backdoored to law enforcement can bypass if you have the phone encrypted. If you want real private messaging, till you own or use paper and a pencil.
That was completely disgusting what the French police did. How their laws even allowed that i have no idea.
I listen to the podcast at 1.25 speed. Hearing Jack’s voice at normal speed here makes him sound drunk to me.
"This is a massive book." That statement says it all.
Damn dude. An ipod touch was my first ever "smart phone". I even had metasploint on that neat little bastard.
Awesome! This is the best! Like NPR except its for interesting stuff?
ha, I went the iPod touch way after seeing baseband hack videos. Really wish it could be a bit bigger though... And i believe they've been discontinued now too :(
At this point i could care less about features. This is what i want in my next phone
Decent Camera
Simple Web apps
Firefox
Privacy
Root Access
If it could run linux that would be a +
And the ability to actually call
One of the mistakes of PS and others was to rise above the noise floor by not selling to everyone
OneUI has a new update and it will suck the living life from your phone, sell your biometrics, read everything. It's insane. Messages, everything.
Ahh.. the bedtime story I never knew I needed. 😊
13:00 of course you sell them the lighter because the building across the street is your competition 😊
Well well. Posted 20min ago. Guess insomnia prevails
This is why you never keep anything, or do anything important on a phone. My phone may as well be an old land line telephone, for all the info anyone will get.
Gov subsidized phones come pre loaded with 2 different spywares, one woven into the settings app so if ever removed the phone bricks. The other seems to be chinese.. oh and thats not counting the ones it downloads in on system update a few weeks after activation.
It's actually kind of ironic. If you want one of the most private and secure devices, you can get on the market currently. You need to get a Google Pixel and root it
@jackrhysider, it would be great to hear any updates on some of these court battles.
Fk ya Jack! The state of data collection practices related to marketing is atrocious..
My current phone doesnt allow me to unlock the bootloader. No OEM unlock. I hate it. If I could just get root access to the device I could remove bloatware and be able to minimize the spying bs
wonderful video.
Ive found session app ticks a lot of boxes for me
Key takeaway:
- book: extreme privacy
1:26 Dude has a very good point.
21:09 The FBI were trying to creat Stockholm syndrome. We "have"... you taken care of and our eye(s) on you. Cognitive dissonance.
I love listening to your content, thank you for making it
This was the literal episode of better call Saul.
Yes! Another video!
I wonder if he didn't put the backdoor in because he didn't want dangerous people clipping him
16:01 there's still no difference between this small business and apple etc.
18:30 if true, that's not cool but idk if it's illegal
25:00 Canadian authorities believe they made 32 million and the FBI estimate was 80 million. I think FBI based their estimates off the value of assets (keep in mind usually not paid in full but bought with loans) and they expected to make more with the apartment acquisition to pay it off. USA legal system tends to artificially inflate value of income or possible income from illegal activities.
I been waiting for this episode
Great content as usual. My favorite channel. Keep up the great content!
There is a solution: Dumbphones. The mafia pays $ +5000 for a privacy keeping Nokia bone phone that can just one thing: talking over distance. So it's a fight between your higher demands on the possibilities of a portable computer and your privacy. You can also tool time linux on a phome, if you can speak sudo.
99%sure encro guys where flipped and created the anom service which was a honey pot from word go. Also if phantom is the one I am thinking of they were so prolific in aus that even me a normal civi could get them for 1k at one point, they were all blackberrys but might have been something diff
don't use your phone or computer if you expect privacy - that simple
LOL
I still hold all the phones I used since 2010, in a faraday's cage.
I smell a pedo
Still own a flip phone, and my android rarely goes with me and has the sensors off button permanently set active.
Purely for secure messaging (setting aside device security or compromise, side channel attacks, etc) do these custom encrypted phones really offer any additional protection over well-known secure chat apps like Signal or Briar?
I am wondering why criminals would spend so much money and go with companies that could potentially be run by their opposition over much more widespread and disinterested options that they could blend into the background more easily.