Ya know I'm old school here! I have found if your worried about who is listening or spying , just wrap phone in heavy duty tin foil, double wrap, wrap tight, and leave for half hour, hour,whatever. Now when you unwrap watch what appears right away or is stored, notification and from who and that info is what to pursue! This is always good to wrap your phone if you suspect a STING-RAY DEVICE! No Transmit or receive signals from the phone and you are in "tin foil stealth mode!" Hey it's cheap you probably have some in the kitchen right now! Peace and prosperity to all my brothers and sisters!! Montana Rick
Glad this is being covered by you guys! I’d love to hear the different jammers and personal protective equipment/gadgets to keep yourself safe from your device and also OTHER devices
I love getting different voices and perspectives on the channel 😀 Unfortunately, Rob's predictions to date have been accurate and are a warning to all of us ☹️
Robs own channel covers many countermeasures including things like degoogled phones. David has been good enough to put a link in the description to Robs channel.
jammers are illegal to use (unless testing in a safe environment), but you can put your 4G/5G/LTE devices in a faraday bag, even better put all your RFID debit/credit and key cards in the bag.
Dont bother, all mobile phones have been automatically trackable to the sq meter since the 80's. You either unplug or deal with it.... trying high-end stuff just puts up a flag and makes you a target(for worse things). BLE is kind of irrelevant tbh as is AI. As for jammers, you are basically telling RI's(RF Investigators, names may vary) your location(unless your in the middle of nowhere, in which case: why bother) and that you are up to no good, ppl go to jail for it. It really depends on ur threat model, Turn off anything your not using(eg BT/wifi/location/mic/camera-nothing phones are good for that), be very careful what apps you use and how you use them and you should be ok most of the time. If your threat model goes above that then dont come to YT for advice. Lastly: RF shielded pouches are a much better solution if your worried about your own device only... tinfoil works too (yes really)
If you use apple, you've given up ur privacy, period. Same with unaltered google. Android or better yet an alt OS then the dev mode, all sensors off(no mic, no cam, no gyro, no accelerometers, no radio like bluetooth or mobile data or wifi, jailbreak a non-apple phone and install an alternative OS, faraday pouch if u need it. Funny that the only major phone with an unlocked boot loader is actually the pixel. This stuff plus Proton mail unlimited with its associated encrypted apps. Good folks out of Switzerland. Invest in privacy or u don't have any. Why I use linux or no internet legacy windows, XP or Vista lol
When I first stumbled onto brax's channel, I was seeing the things he was saying out loud. For me, I finally had an IT career professional saying the things I was being made to feel crazy for saying. I have been a loyal fan since and I can say with 100% certainty, he has never given bad advice in any video I've watched from him. David is also top tier in class and content!
I am glad to have come to know you guys online (channels) have become more aware of things I would've rather not known or think of in my ordinary day-day living. With that said, I still think all the STUFFS (fears) only for selected few where necessary. In my opinion, most of these advances in phone capabilities have served me better (learning / awareness). But people like you, David, to learn you can be "hacked" and Rod, users protector (user privacy advocate in a way) from big tech companies and one that creates user protected privacy phones.
I’m not a hacker by any means. In the past couple of years I’ve learned just enough about hacking to make me ultra paranoid. While messing around with my TP-Link router, I found a glitch or “bug” in the system logging. I was trying to see if the access log was actually keeping track of outside connections. What I found was that, when ever the time and date are reset, ALL of the systems logs are reset. Essentially, allowing remote access with the records of that access erased. I sent an email to tplinks security and customer support and all I received in response was an automated reply that the contact person is out in maternity leave. They must not think it’s that big of a problem. Thanks for all the videos!!
"OS constantly listens to you now" - but it doesn't listen for everything. It listens for specific pattern to be activated. That's why you have to pre-record "hey siri" for siri to be properly triggered. Listening and analyzing the whole flow would drain the battery easily. Now it's a separate chip that doesn't consume much and just triggers the "active listening"
There needs to be laws, perhaps even constitutional amendments that protect personal data, private correspondence, biometrics, etc. Companies, including social media platforms, advertisers, AI and “personal assistants”, and tech/media corporations should exclusively collect information for the purposes of providing you a product or service, they should only hold that data for the duration necessary to fulfill their end of the transaction, they should not sell or distribute that data without the user’s consent, and it should require a court order and strict supervision for anyone to access data outside of that circle of informed consent.
There are laws the problem is the government gets around it because it’s an AI is not an individual nor is it part of the government. They need to rewrite laws to address this
You're living in your imagination if you think that the Government won't control everything in the near future. Never mind what 'should' happen, let's just focus on what 'is happening' instead.
I-phones are, like, 4th on the bait index. 3rd is ring doorbell and surveillance, 2nd is Amazon echo/google home, 1st are android phones with play services.
@@bangcambe7019 Nah man, that's a good list. Amazon and Google do and own too much for one of their services to be 'okay' to use. Giving your data for gmail WHILE using all play services on your phone, collecting data, and having the wire-tapper aka 'home assistant' is a recipe for disaster. All that from having a stock android rom on google pixel and getting a home mini as a bundle with it.
Salvation was great, but Person of Interest is the best show of all time. If you follow the tension between the USA and China within geopolitician and technology, then you will realize and understand the whole concept
Intel also recently announced their Core Ultra 200S processor which has a built-in Neural Processing Unit (NPU) specifically for on-device AI processing. So it's not out of the question that processing will be done exclusively on-device, and maybe if a query is too complex, a prompt to send the data for cloud processing? idk
I watched Rob for a long time now. Really enjoy what he has to say and its true. I also commented on one of his videos is the risk (on a pc or even phone) when the AI chip can interpret what the gpu has to display, then changing the OS wont even help any more. So the only solution is only to stay as long as possible on old devices until we have another solution.
A lot of the concepts here about linking tangential information to a target data point has in fact been solved within the subject matter of database anonymization, Stacy Prowell has some good lectures on youtube about anonymizing databases (with probability, with adding noise, removing determinants, etc.). I don't know if tech companies do that and I will believe they don't until I see proof otherwise, but the math and the practice is there to make data collection and anonymization secure.
You can always create new apple id whenever you buy new iphone and keep that ai agent at "learning" state for another year or more. Just make sure you don't use apple backups to transfer data from old phone to prevent transfer of created ai context. There are tons of solutions to have private cloud in your home device and those backups (multimedia, docs, contacts, etc) can be made with third party apps. Also, why not blocking the front camera? Do you really need selfies? It only takes few sensors to be blocked on your phone to keep the ai agent at bay. If you do so, the data from sensors you can't block will be inconsistent making the context not sufficient for processing by ai.
I think it's important to remember to point out to the viewer that people should understand what threat modelling is and whether this much anonymity is actually needed and worth the trade off by being inconvenienced. Telemetry information so long as its not identifiable is not a problem for the majority of people. Sure there are those out there that need to worry about having 100% anonymity because they are targets by nation-states but this isn't most people. It's always a tradeoff. I'm ok with telemetry but not to the level say that Microsoft does it. But say someone like Canonical just collecting non-identifiable data on how you use their Linux operating system so they can make it better. People end up paranoid about everything and it's not needed for most people.
Great video! Please excuse my ignorance here, why should I be concerned about privacy? Why is it so important and such a concern for people. Most folks I know they don’t care why should we. Violence? Persecution? Death?
I hear this a lot from non-US folks that the US privacy regulations don't apply to them... as if the US does not have a base in every NATO country, didn't force Australia to try their own citizen with treason for whistleblowing about US war crimes in Afghanistan, as if the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Section 702 act doesn't include "authorizes the [warrantless] targeted collection of foreign intelligence information from non-U.S. persons located abroad." (Mind you the only outrage I've seen of this int he US is that it's been used on Americans abroad as well) America runs the world and has no problem openly showcasing that.
The scary thing is, you cannot hide from this. Even if you try to care about privacy, every other device from your family, co-workers etc. is tracking and listening and spying on you. Also more and more, you need to have accounts and provide phone numbers and credit cards to use services in the internet. Scary times ahead.
The scary part is when you are targeted tehn they make up datamodel in advance to collect data to fit that behavior. Whatever motive. They ignore you if you really want ask for right questions, and want justice. its corrupt if you are a threat to their power
It looks like we're going to have to choose between security and privacy. I can see security requiring the latest patches at all times, yet the privacy conscious firms cannot keep up with the pace of security prevention like the big players who don't care for our privacy.
They can and do track your phones location and can tell if you are in protests or anything the government is not happy with and this can be down by companies that are not even law enforcement. Privacy is a myth. And people that say others should go and look at the systems and software that I have seen.
I wonder if they hide setting aside battery charge for this offline AirTag mode behind a “degrading battery”, since an older device likely has more valuable data they’d want the powered off state to last longer.
I asked ChatGPT what kind of music it thinks I like, and got this answer: ”Based on what I know about your projects and interests, I would guess you might enjoy music that aligns with your technical and creative pursuits. Perhaps you’re drawn to electronic music, synthwave, or ambient tracks that can accompany your focus while working on coding, engineering, or building systems. You might also appreciate instrumental or orchestral music that allows for deep concentration, or even retro video game soundtracks, given your work on game-related concepts like FPV video integration.” Pretty much spot on.
I asked Copilot, which I use multiple time per day, "What type of music do I like based on what you know about me?" and the response was "Based on our conversation, I don't have specific details about your music preferences. However, I can help you explore different genres or artists if you tell me a bit about what you enjoy! Do you like upbeat and energetic music, something more relaxing, or perhaps a specific genre like rock, pop, jazz, or classical? Let me know, and I can make some recommendations!" Generic and good for now, but as Rob says I am sure this will be changing.
@@cryptoponics Maybe copilot don´t have the same capabilities for memory as ChatGPT do now. Now, when you open up a new chat with ChatGPT and make a prompt you see a "memory loading..." notification, so they obiously store data from previous sessions, or at least summaries of old conversations. Which from a privacy standpoint is scary as fuck, but from a usability standpoint is quite nice
@@davidbombal A lot of people I have met who have them do know about the privacy implications, perhaps they don't think it will hurt them and it likely won't so they simply don't care. I'm a nerd and I like to tinker, iPhone has always been too locked down for me. Android gives me choices in just about everything. It's a computer - We tell it what to do, not the other way around. Cheers David.
It's very US specific, I didn't know for quite some time that lots of people in the US have an iPhone. I mean, lots, a LOT more than in Europe, where you will see it by far not that often - Android is much more common. As far as I know, you might even get made fun off at college or school or whatnot if you don't have an iPhone but some Android. Seems to be a prestige object even more than in Europe, although in Europe it's far beyond Android.
Even beyond your phone, I would say your mobile phone number itself is a bane to privacy. How many times is one asked to identify themselves by entering a number? No business would say "Please enter your Social Security number," yet; we hand out our phone numbers without thinking deeper. And its always asked you provide a "mobile" number, rather than a land line.
It will be very hard for a developer to get anything done if you cant use any mainstream devices. I need windows for developing and testing .Net, I need both an iPhone and an Android device (with a mainstream distro) to be able to test mobile apps, I need a mac to be able to compile iOS and MacOS apps... Unfortunetly not every developer can be an open source Python freelancer working on Linux!
an other interesting great video who speaks about how far technology can go, if there is no rule to guide it; thx david for this amazing videos and thx to the gentelman with uou
The thing is even if I use a de-googled phone and I am about in pubic, the other phones may still scan my phone, right? Now, since I have a de-googled phone, my phone won't transmit any data, but the other phones in proximity surely will flag me as unrecognizable device which then the AI of other device will take control of what they can find about me or in my phone, right?
Communication without internet is probably why they're rebooting in police custody. All of the phones see each like "Hey bro why you hear? I don't know there's a bunch of us here. Reboot party, I think we are stolen? Sure! "
Both. Big corporate is where government gets the data they can't legally gather themselves. Meaning it is illegal for the government to spy on you like this so they outsource it, why is that? You should worry about ANYONE doing this to you.
I’ve got two words for ya, Palantir Technologies,😳😳if you know- then you know. But if you don’t- then tbh, unfortunately, it’s probably already too late for you. Stay vigil, folks.
Let’s do a video on turning off these Orion’s for more privacy. How about a faraday bag for your iPhone, how about hacks for your iPhone. I know this guy wants to sell his phone, but ppl like me already have the technology, let’s hear some options for that.
Aisle L23 at most Lowe's has a hammer somewhere. How about selling your phone and getting a BA Samsung A14? And with the rest of the money you could buy a lot of Ice Cream in Aisle B4. P. S. I made up the aisle at random. Hope this helps.
Actually Rob Braxman's videos teaches how to protect your privacy by yourself, there are numerous videos teaching how make a degoogled android phone like the ones he sells. A Faraday bag will temporarily cut your phone's connection, but it will still collect your available sensors and upload the data as soon as network is re-established. The result will be a log such as "the user probably put his phone in Faraday bag while going from point A to point B", the sensors are able to predict if you were walking, on a bicycle, on a motorcycle or in a 4 wheel from A to B.
Inspiring! I think I was subscribed to Rob even before I came across your magnificent channel But actionable solutions are what are needed, and where to start? (Probably not posting comments on Google 😂😂) I began getting happy about 48:00 Thank you for highlighting what is going on and especially for asking all the right questions ❤
They knew what they were building wayy back in 1984, when their first major commercial about the Macintosh ended with the quote, "... and you'll see why 1984, won't be like 1984..."
I got a ad for an iPhone 16 from Verizon during this video LMAO I will say too that while we technically are supposed to have freedom of speech in the US, but there has been a lot happening where that gets blatantly disrespected. With the incoming president I dont think it will get better, if not much worse. The political groups we currently have in power are very “Freedom of speech but only for me and people in the same party as me”
These features he "predicted" have been available since the iPhone 14, and Apple has published all information about them since Day 1. Nothing about what he has said is prophetic by any means.
Is there not a privacy issue for other people though? I don't to be around people with this technology I have no say in this. Not only are they collecting the users data, but also the people around them. I don't want my data with Apple.
Esto suena muy similar a la película Minority Report, con la diferencia que en vez de leer el "futuro", leerían patrones de conducta de cada perfil, para potencialmente restringir la libertad de X individuo o grupo de personas. Imagina que si alguna vez llega un grupo tiránico al poder de una nación, sería casi imposible resistirse sin "dejarles saber" lo que harías. Una verdadera película de terror.
Google is not only linked to the GoogleID. Their network creates a digital fingerprint which may not be associated with a known person. When it sees similar behavior even on a different content it will match it and suggest similar content. It has been doing this for over 10 years. Google also records voice samples, GPS data, scans photos, etc. Just because Apple is leading in these areas doesn’t mean the others won’t immediately copy them in 9-12 months. Your fanboy is showing.
interesting video. i only know huawei and honor phones are survillance phones. now, apple is also one of the brand of survillance phones. thank you very much for sharing
Serious question; yes, privacy is always something that everybody has a right to in my opinion. But everything to do in the world is to do with business and marketing and money. Whether it goes to good or bad people rich or poor. Etc. My question really is what does it matter if your phone is “spying” on you? Sure it’s paranoid to some people, but in the contrary, most of us are watching this video which is sponsored by an app that is most likely gonna be used on a device obviously connected to the Internet, which is probably spying on you anyways. And what that company could potentially be giving away or selling the data that you’re learning off of them whether it’s free or not. And TH-cam is owned by Google. So obviously this is gonna get widespread like you mentioned in the video. So just talking about it in general causes people to get paranoid. Therefore leading to people buying into more and more security applications until we feel like we’re all so secure just to find out that nothing is secure regardless. So what does it matter? This is a big profit ring for marketing and gaining money. unless you’re up to something completely terrible and illegal. Are they gonna just go around arresting every single person that has a iPhone 16 or any device? In that case, the people that are arresting, you would have to arrest themselves because they’re using the same thing. I just don’t see the point of being so fixated on it. also the terms and conditions that just came out recently I seen on my iPad that I’m using right now they said in the terms like pretty specifically on the front so I don’t usually read them like multiple people don’t. this is if if you don’t wanna agree to the terms, then you’re eligible to take your device back as long as it is still within its warranty time. Sure if you don’t wanna be spy on the get an iPhone? And then get an android which is like so much easier to get hacked by actual malicious hackers. Just talking about this just makes no sense for people just like realize everywhere privacy is completely gone. Cool they know what I ate for breakfast and know where i went and did today. does this guy that your interviewing realize that the moment you guys are the TH-camrs you’re locked in with Google already. This isn’t new. This is the same thing that’s been happening for years and years. We get our data collected without getting any money back for it. They sell it too many companies and what not and then from there it creates a database for AI to learn, and then we end up paying for AI to help us learn more about how to protect yourselves against security risks. loll this guy is just way too fixated on it. David, I love your channel. I follow all the time just saying this guy needs to spend more time maybe leaving his phone at home and go take a walk and enjoy reality instead of just trying to spread awareness about things that we cannot change.
hey David, am due to lose my device am not able to attend and follow your effort. am glad due to meet again I have learnt and got lots ot of giveaway prizes specially around new year. am expect as usually give way gift in the coming. keep on keeping on David Bombal
In time it won’t matter what you get, once the tech is embedded into society, every company will impose it on you. In short Linux may not do it today, but who’s to say it won’t tomorrow. I’m sure AI in internet providers Routers isn’t far off, as AI tech gets cheaper each day. I believe companies are already adding AI in hardware for intrusion detection (Cisco), so in future your providers will likely use similar tech for reporting to law enforcement the way we are headed.
hey just an anecdote, i lost my iPhone 11pro and was able to track it in a lyft driver's car for 2 full days after. Looked it up just now and it seems the 11 and above have had this feature, because it was the first to have the U1 chip.
I like how he only said that an iPhone was the 'most advanced spying device' because he's selling an Android based phone. He wouldn't sell maybe phones if he told the truth about it being any modern smart phone including Android.
Well, actually nobody forces you into anything. A phone can work normally as a phone. Oh, you want all the other "free" stuff? No problem, you can pay with your data. There is nothing free on earth .
Hey David! Apple makes use of “Local Differential Privacy” algorithms which ensures that the raw data is randomized before sending it to the servers. I don't understand how this would allow "Big Brother" to de-anonymize user data - or to get to their personal data. If it would be just "encrypted" I would have doubts too, but "Local Differential Privacy" doesn't even trust Apple itself (Keeping in mind that the privacy loss is less).
Agree, even Apple makes use of “Local Differential Privacy” algorithms which ensures that the raw data is randomized before sending it to the servers. I don't understand how this would allow "Big Brother" to de-anonymize user data - or to get to their personal data. If it would be just "encrypted" I would have doubts too, but "Local Differential Privacy" doesn't even trust Apple itself (Keeping in mind that the privacy loss is less). No disrespect, but is it just blabbering by the guest?
Love your content, David. I really, sincerely do. But did this guy just say, 'it says that on Wikipedia. So Somebody must have information that verifies this.' (14:39). Dude... There's all sorts of stuff on Wikipedia that's unverified 😂. This makes me question the interviewee's integrity at the very beginning. Just my two cents.
Legally, nobody owns content generated by AI right now. It's not your data even though it's about you, generated with your information, made on your computer, with your electricity. Prove me wrong or help me fix it.
Bluetooth mesh networks... I knew about the tags being used to stalk people years ago... but fuck I had not realised some of these opsec potentials. I've seen a few bits of malware that mess with antenna drivers, making antennas capable of interacting with frequencies they should not, like wifi/bluetooth touching the 433 of my cnc controller pendant (I'm still not sure which transmitter/antenna was used, just that the signals were being read by and came from the compromised device). I was and still am totally out of my depth trying to understand the decompile of that bit of the thing, which got in via a .net 4 exploit, to me it looked exactly like a micro/portable machine learning model, specifically built to adapt the driver... again totally out of my depth. Spent far too much time messing with faraday cages and signals analysis trying to understand why the pendant was trying to tell the machine to destroy itself (before replacing the control system with an obscurified one that has worked fine since). I guess some 3 letter agency might be trying to break into all of the private meshes out there? not a totally terrible thing? mixed feelings.
Ya know I'm old school here! I have found if your worried about who is listening or spying , just wrap phone in heavy duty tin foil, double wrap, wrap tight, and leave for half hour, hour,whatever. Now when you unwrap watch what appears right away or is stored, notification and from who and that info is what to pursue! This is always good to wrap your phone if you suspect a STING-RAY DEVICE! No Transmit or receive signals from the phone and you are in "tin foil stealth mode!" Hey it's cheap you probably have some in the kitchen right now! Peace and prosperity to all my brothers and sisters!! Montana Rick
Glad this is being covered by you guys! I’d love to hear the different jammers and personal protective equipment/gadgets to keep yourself safe from your device and also OTHER devices
I love getting different voices and perspectives on the channel 😀 Unfortunately, Rob's predictions to date have been accurate and are a warning to all of us ☹️
Robs own channel covers many countermeasures including things like degoogled phones.
David has been good enough to put a link in the description to Robs channel.
jammers are illegal to use (unless testing in a safe environment),
but you can put your 4G/5G/LTE devices in a faraday bag, even better put all your RFID debit/credit and key cards in the bag.
Dont bother, all mobile phones have been automatically trackable to the sq meter since the 80's. You either unplug or deal with it.... trying high-end stuff just puts up a flag and makes you a target(for worse things). BLE is kind of irrelevant tbh as is AI. As for jammers, you are basically telling RI's(RF Investigators, names may vary) your location(unless your in the middle of nowhere, in which case: why bother) and that you are up to no good, ppl go to jail for it. It really depends on ur threat model, Turn off anything your not using(eg BT/wifi/location/mic/camera-nothing phones are good for that), be very careful what apps you use and how you use them and you should be ok most of the time. If your threat model goes above that then dont come to YT for advice. Lastly: RF shielded pouches are a much better solution if your worried about your own device only... tinfoil works too (yes really)
If you use apple, you've given up ur privacy, period. Same with unaltered google. Android or better yet an alt OS then the dev mode, all sensors off(no mic, no cam, no gyro, no accelerometers, no radio like bluetooth or mobile data or wifi, jailbreak a non-apple phone and install an alternative OS, faraday pouch if u need it. Funny that the only major phone with an unlocked boot loader is actually the pixel. This stuff plus Proton mail unlimited with its associated encrypted apps. Good folks out of Switzerland. Invest in privacy or u don't have any. Why I use linux or no internet legacy windows, XP or Vista lol
When I first stumbled onto brax's channel, I was seeing the things he was saying out loud. For me, I finally had an IT career professional saying the things I was being made to feel crazy for saying. I have been a loyal fan since and I can say with 100% certainty, he has never given bad advice in any video I've watched from him. David is also top tier in class and content!
Person of Interest was laughed at when it launched, it wasn't until Snowden leaked in 2013 that people took it a bit more seriously.
I am glad to have come to know you guys online (channels) have become more aware of things I would've rather not known or think of in my ordinary day-day living. With that said, I still think all the STUFFS (fears) only for selected few where necessary. In my opinion, most of these advances in phone capabilities have served me better (learning / awareness). But people like you, David, to learn you can be "hacked" and Rod, users protector (user privacy advocate in a way) from big tech companies and one that creates user protected privacy phones.
I’m not a hacker by any means. In the past couple of years I’ve learned just enough about hacking to make me ultra paranoid.
While messing around with my TP-Link router, I found a glitch or “bug” in the system logging. I was trying to see if the access log was actually keeping track of outside connections. What I found was that, when ever the time and date are reset, ALL of the systems logs are reset. Essentially, allowing remote access with the records of that access erased.
I sent an email to tplinks security and customer support and all I received in response was an automated reply that the contact person is out in maternity leave. They must not think it’s that big of a problem.
Thanks for all the videos!!
"OS constantly listens to you now" - but it doesn't listen for everything. It listens for specific pattern to be activated. That's why you have to pre-record "hey siri" for siri to be properly triggered. Listening and analyzing the whole flow would drain the battery easily. Now it's a separate chip that doesn't consume much and just triggers the "active listening"
@ you can easily prove that if you're smart enough
@@BadBoiFX which is?
Imagine actually believing this
There needs to be laws, perhaps even constitutional amendments that protect personal data, private correspondence, biometrics, etc.
Companies, including social media platforms, advertisers, AI and “personal assistants”, and tech/media corporations should exclusively collect information for the purposes of providing you a product or service, they should only hold that data for the duration necessary to fulfill their end of the transaction, they should not sell or distribute that data without the user’s consent, and it should require a court order and strict supervision for anyone to access data outside of that circle of informed consent.
Europe has GDRP. America the land of being stalked by the entities and unhinged creeps .
They twist it, they say it’s to stop terrorism, child abuse etc etc. they twist it to suit them.
There are laws the problem is the government gets around it because it’s an AI is not an individual nor is it part of the government. They need to rewrite laws to address this
There needs to be a reckoning...
You're living in your imagination if you think that the Government won't control everything in the near future. Never mind what 'should' happen, let's just focus on what 'is happening' instead.
I-phones are, like, 4th on the bait index.
3rd is ring doorbell and surveillance,
2nd is Amazon echo/google home,
1st are android phones with play services.
I think a lot of people would agree with you on these.
Hahahahahahaha, i believe Ur joking right
@@bangcambe7019 Nah man, that's a good list. Amazon and Google do and own too much for one of their services to be 'okay' to use. Giving your data for gmail WHILE using all play services on your phone, collecting data, and having the wire-tapper aka 'home assistant' is a recipe for disaster. All that from having a stock android rom on google pixel and getting a home mini as a bundle with it.
Person of Interest is one of the best show I had!
I thought it was great. And well ahead of it's time 😀
@@davidbombal Yes, I completely agree. It's one of those shows that still feels relevant today!
Salvation was great, but Person of Interest is the best show of all time. If you follow the tension between the USA and China within geopolitician and technology, then you will realize and understand the whole concept
Privacy is a myth🤐🤐🤐.
💯
Unfortunately seems to be true these days ☹️
even though you think its a "myth" doesnt mean you have to be a sheep. People are too lazy to fight for their own natural rights...
This is also valid. @@archie-fu7jl
Certainly is if you leave it in the hands of others.
The moment I saw Rob, I knew this will be a great episode! Great content, as always, David!
Intel also recently announced their Core Ultra 200S processor which has a built-in Neural Processing Unit (NPU) specifically for on-device AI processing. So it's not out of the question that processing will be done exclusively on-device, and maybe if a query is too complex, a prompt to send the data for cloud processing? idk
David love you man and your content
Thank you! I appreciate that :)
its always good to see you to chat on privacy but i would love to see OTW join the show with you , that would be a killer combo of three
I watched Rob for a long time now. Really enjoy what he has to say and its true.
I also commented on one of his videos is the risk (on a pc or even phone) when the AI chip can interpret what the gpu has to display, then changing the OS wont even help any more. So the only solution is only to stay as long as possible on old devices until we have another solution.
Awesome! Thank you for Sharing Rob and David! 💯✴
A lot of the concepts here about linking tangential information to a target data point has in fact been solved within the subject matter of database anonymization, Stacy Prowell has some good lectures on youtube about anonymizing databases (with probability, with adding noise, removing determinants, etc.). I don't know if tech companies do that and I will believe they don't until I see proof otherwise, but the math and the practice is there to make data collection and anonymization secure.
Thank you David and Rob for the valuable information
The reason Rob is so good at predicting things is that he knows there is nothing free. You pay a price one way or another.
Rob Braxman is a hero
We need more of this! Very informative.
Like this David! bring a expert to discus the competition of raising AI between USA and China !
I am subscribed to both channels which provide quality materials all the time. Keep up the good work David!
Rob, Davinci is running fine on Debian based Linux, give it a shot (Mint as an example)
Interesting....🤔 Thank you for the information!
Edit: I was paranoid about the Patriot Act when I was a kid, but now I am more paranoid of the iPhone.
Great info this video has motivated me to continue my research
You can always create new apple id whenever you buy new iphone and keep that ai agent at "learning" state for another year or more. Just make sure you don't use apple backups to transfer data from old phone to prevent transfer of created ai context. There are tons of solutions to have private cloud in your home device and those backups (multimedia, docs, contacts, etc) can be made with third party apps. Also, why not blocking the front camera? Do you really need selfies? It only takes few sensors to be blocked on your phone to keep the ai agent at bay. If you do so, the data from sensors you can't block will be inconsistent making the context not sufficient for processing by ai.
I think it's important to remember to point out to the viewer that people should understand what threat modelling is and whether this much anonymity is actually needed and worth the trade off by being inconvenienced. Telemetry information so long as its not identifiable is not a problem for the majority of people. Sure there are those out there that need to worry about having 100% anonymity because they are targets by nation-states but this isn't most people. It's always a tradeoff. I'm ok with telemetry but not to the level say that Microsoft does it. But say someone like Canonical just collecting non-identifiable data on how you use their Linux operating system so they can make it better. People end up paranoid about everything and it's not needed for most people.
Great video! Please excuse my ignorance here, why should I be concerned about privacy? Why is it so important and such a concern for people. Most folks I know they don’t care why should we. Violence? Persecution? Death?
I hear this a lot from non-US folks that the US privacy regulations don't apply to them... as if the US does not have a base in every NATO country, didn't force Australia to try their own citizen with treason for whistleblowing about US war crimes in Afghanistan, as if the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Section 702 act doesn't include "authorizes the [warrantless] targeted collection of foreign intelligence information from non-U.S. persons located abroad." (Mind you the only outrage I've seen of this int he US is that it's been used on Americans abroad as well)
America runs the world and has no problem openly showcasing that.
The scary thing is, you cannot hide from this. Even if you try to care about privacy, every other device from your family, co-workers etc. is tracking and listening and spying on you.
Also more and more, you need to have accounts and provide phone numbers and credit cards to use services in the internet.
Scary times ahead.
just connect your phone to burp suite or sniff with wireshark and you can see lot of traffic is going from your phone
i have Quad9 apps/dns i can see that my phones did 82817 queries to databrocker, adds, google, etc etc
How do you sniff? I downloaded Wireshark but it's not easy to figure out. I'm not a tech person. I have no privacy tho and want to check it out
You are such a great guy, David Bombal
The scary part is when you are targeted tehn they make up datamodel in advance to collect data to fit that behavior. Whatever motive. They ignore you if you really want ask for right questions, and want justice. its corrupt if you are a threat to their power
This why I find these guys great at what they do, which is iot and make it a business.
It looks like we're going to have to choose between security and privacy. I can see security requiring the latest patches at all times, yet the privacy conscious firms cannot keep up with the pace of security prevention like the big players who don't care for our privacy.
They can and do track your phones location and can tell if you are in protests or anything the government is not happy with and this can be down by companies that are not even law enforcement. Privacy is a myth. And people that say others should go and look at the systems and software that I have seen.
I wonder if they hide setting aside battery charge for this offline AirTag mode behind a “degrading battery”, since an older device likely has more valuable data they’d want the powered off state to last longer.
I asked ChatGPT what kind of music it thinks I like, and got this answer:
”Based on what I know about your projects and interests, I would guess you might enjoy music that aligns with your technical and creative pursuits. Perhaps you’re drawn to electronic music, synthwave, or ambient tracks that can accompany your focus while working on coding, engineering, or building systems. You might also appreciate instrumental or orchestral music that allows for deep concentration, or even retro video game soundtracks, given your work on game-related concepts like FPV video integration.”
Pretty much spot on.
Not exactly a very difficult observation to make
I asked Copilot, which I use multiple time per day, "What type of music do I like based on what you know about me?" and the response was "Based on our conversation, I don't have specific details about your music preferences. However, I can help you explore different genres or artists if you tell me a bit about what you enjoy! Do you like upbeat and energetic music, something more relaxing, or perhaps a specific genre like rock, pop, jazz, or classical? Let me know, and I can make some recommendations!" Generic and good for now, but as Rob says I am sure this will be changing.
@@cryptoponics Maybe copilot don´t have the same capabilities for memory as ChatGPT do now. Now, when you open up a new chat with ChatGPT and make a prompt you see a "memory loading..." notification, so they obiously store data from previous sessions, or at least summaries of old conversations. Which from a privacy standpoint is scary as fuck, but from a usability standpoint is quite nice
Not disagreeing but it could make this conclusion from previous prompts like you asked it about tech
@@expl0siveR3x Yes, of course, that is exactly what it did.
The most painful part in this is that we pay to them so they can spy on us !
Why you would want an iPhone is beyond me.
A lot of people like the Apple ecosystem and the phone features. They don't know as much about the privacy concerns unfortunately.
@@davidbombal A lot of people I have met who have them do know about the privacy implications, perhaps they don't think it will hurt them and it likely won't so they simply don't care.
I'm a nerd and I like to tinker, iPhone has always been too locked down for me. Android gives me choices in just about everything. It's a computer - We tell it what to do, not the other way around.
Cheers David.
Ripoff but the camera is usually better. I just bought a real camera instead that outperforms and was less expensive 😂
It's very US specific, I didn't know for quite some time that lots of people in the US have an iPhone. I mean, lots, a LOT more than in Europe, where you will see it by far not that often - Android is much more common. As far as I know, you might even get made fun off at college or school or whatnot if you don't have an iPhone but some Android. Seems to be a prestige object even more than in Europe, although in Europe it's far beyond Android.
@@etziowingeler3173 Yeah, it must be something in the water here.
Even beyond your phone, I would say your mobile phone number itself is a bane to privacy. How many times is one asked to identify themselves by entering a number? No business would say "Please enter your Social Security number," yet; we hand out our phone numbers without thinking deeper. And its always asked you provide a "mobile" number, rather than a land line.
AI gives off Rehoboam/Westworld vibes... scary stuff
This is scary, would love to see how to protect your details for the future
It will be very hard for a developer to get anything done if you cant use any mainstream devices. I need windows for developing and testing .Net, I need both an iPhone and an Android device (with a mainstream distro) to be able to test mobile apps, I need a mac to be able to compile iOS and MacOS apps... Unfortunetly not every developer can be an open source Python freelancer working on Linux!
an other interesting great video who speaks about how far technology can go, if there is no rule to guide it; thx david for this amazing videos and thx to the gentelman with uou
I was just thinking about David if he will release a video 😆 thank uuu David
The thing is even if I use a de-googled phone and I am about in pubic, the other phones may still scan my phone, right? Now, since I have a de-googled phone, my phone won't transmit any data, but the other phones in proximity surely will flag me as unrecognizable device which then the AI of other device will take control of what they can find about me or in my phone, right?
Communication without internet is probably why they're rebooting in police custody. All of the phones see each like "Hey bro why you hear? I don't know there's a bunch of us here. Reboot party, I think we are stolen? Sure! "
big corporate not gov is what we worry about.
I think a lot of people are worried about both.
Both.
Big corporate is where government gets the data they can't legally gather themselves.
Meaning it is illegal for the government to spy on you like this so they outsource it, why is that?
You should worry about ANYONE doing this to you.
I’ve got two words for ya, Palantir Technologies,😳😳if you know- then you know. But if you don’t- then tbh, unfortunately, it’s probably already too late for you. Stay vigil, folks.
Let’s do a video on turning off these Orion’s for more privacy. How about a faraday bag for your iPhone, how about hacks for your iPhone. I know this guy wants to sell his phone, but ppl like me already have the technology, let’s hear some options for that.
Aisle L23 at most Lowe's has a hammer somewhere. How about selling your phone and getting a BA Samsung A14? And with the rest of the money you could buy a lot of Ice Cream in Aisle B4.
P. S. I made up the aisle at random. Hope this helps.
Actually Rob Braxman's videos teaches how to protect your privacy by yourself, there are numerous videos teaching how make a degoogled android phone like the ones he sells.
A Faraday bag will temporarily cut your phone's connection, but it will still collect your available sensors and upload the data as soon as network is re-established. The result will be a log such as "the user probably put his phone in Faraday bag while going from point A to point B", the sensors are able to predict if you were walking, on a bicycle, on a motorcycle or in a 4 wheel from A to B.
GrapheneOS
Is privacy even possible anymore even tor can be tracked now. Even proton mail.
Inspiring!
I think I was subscribed to Rob even before I came across your magnificent channel
But actionable solutions are what are needed, and where to start? (Probably not posting comments on Google 😂😂) I began getting happy about 48:00
Thank you for highlighting what is going on and especially for asking all the right questions ❤
They knew what they were building wayy back in 1984, when their first major commercial about the Macintosh ended with the quote, "... and you'll see why 1984, won't be like 1984..."
Aunt text me: I want to create custom tshirts
TH-cam 5 minutes later: how to create custom tshirts
24:22 Google Photos has been doing this for years. And it only got usable in recent years.
I got a ad for an iPhone 16 from Verizon during this video LMAO
I will say too that while we technically are supposed to have freedom of speech in the US, but there has been a lot happening where that gets blatantly disrespected. With the incoming president I dont think it will get better, if not much worse. The political groups we currently have in power are very “Freedom of speech but only for me and people in the same party as me”
The main thing here is passwords that can be taken.
Linux: That's where I come in.✌️😎
Can I marry you 😂
Linux: Well, if you use Debian or Ubuntu? 😂
but not on phone ... it is very rare and hard to find a linux phone and it might not work for you ...
Absolutely right.
Linux and FreeBSD have a bright future.
There are many other options as well, especially *BSD ones.
These features he "predicted" have been available since the iPhone 14, and Apple has published all information about them since Day 1. Nothing about what he has said is prophetic by any means.
lattice network by anduril showcases the power of this surveillance tech in full glory
Is there not a privacy issue for other people though? I don't to be around people with this technology I have no say in this.
Not only are they collecting the users data, but also the people around them. I don't want my data with Apple.
The person of interest intro is perfect for this video. I miss that show, thanks for the throwback.
We need more videos like this. Has David done one singularly on GrapheneOS for example
He has o e already, more like a hands on
Esto suena muy similar a la película Minority Report, con la diferencia que en vez de leer el "futuro", leerían patrones de conducta de cada perfil, para potencialmente restringir la libertad de X individuo o grupo de personas.
Imagina que si alguna vez llega un grupo tiránico al poder de una nación, sería casi imposible resistirse sin "dejarles saber" lo que harías.
Una verdadera película de terror.
Google is not only linked to the GoogleID. Their network creates a digital fingerprint which may not be associated with a known person. When it sees similar behavior even on a different content it will match it and suggest similar content. It has been doing this for over 10 years. Google also records voice samples, GPS data, scans photos, etc. Just because Apple is leading in these areas doesn’t mean the others won’t immediately copy them in 9-12 months. Your fanboy is showing.
Sooooo underrated!!! ❤️
It’s underrated for a reason coz it’s hogwash.
interesting video. i only know huawei and honor phones are survillance phones. now, apple is also one of the brand of survillance phones. thank you very much for sharing
Serious question; yes, privacy is always something that everybody has a right to in my opinion. But everything to do in the world is to do with business and marketing and money. Whether it goes to good or bad people rich or poor. Etc. My question really is what does it matter if your phone is “spying” on you?
Sure it’s paranoid to some people, but in the contrary, most of us are watching this video which is sponsored by an app that is most likely gonna be used on a device obviously connected to the Internet, which is probably spying on you anyways. And what that company could potentially be giving away or selling the data that you’re learning off of them whether it’s free or not. And TH-cam is owned by Google. So obviously this is gonna get widespread like you mentioned in the video. So just talking about it in general causes people to get paranoid. Therefore leading to people buying into more and more security applications until we feel like we’re all so secure just to find out that nothing is secure regardless. So what does it matter? This is a big profit ring for marketing and gaining money. unless you’re up to something completely terrible and illegal. Are they gonna just go around arresting every single person that has a iPhone 16 or any device? In that case, the people that are arresting, you would have to arrest themselves because they’re using the same thing. I just don’t see the point of being so fixated on it. also the terms and conditions that just came out recently I seen on my iPad that I’m using right now they said in the terms like pretty specifically on the front so I don’t usually read them like multiple people don’t. this is if if you don’t wanna agree to the terms, then you’re eligible to take your device back as long as it is still within its warranty time. Sure if you don’t wanna be spy on the get an iPhone? And then get an android which is like so much easier to get hacked by actual malicious hackers. Just talking about this just makes no sense for people just like realize everywhere privacy is completely gone. Cool they know what I ate for breakfast and know where i went and did today.
does this guy that your interviewing realize that the moment you guys are the TH-camrs you’re locked in with Google already. This isn’t new.
This is the same thing that’s been happening for years and years. We get our data collected without getting any money back for it. They sell it too many companies and what not and then from there it creates a database for AI to learn, and then we end up paying for AI to help us learn more about how to protect yourselves against security risks. loll this guy is just way too fixated on it.
David, I love your channel. I follow all the time just saying this guy needs to spend more time maybe leaving his phone at home and go take a walk and enjoy reality instead of just trying to spread awareness about things that we cannot change.
I got a ad for an iPhone 16 from Verizon during this video LMAO
hey David, am due to lose my device am not able to attend and follow your effort. am glad due to meet again I have learnt and got lots ot of giveaway prizes specially around new year. am expect as usually give way gift in the coming. keep on keeping on David Bombal
Thank you!
Unfortunately, content is technically wrong in regards to the iPhone’s capabilities and the part about the transformer.
I love this keep it up
In time it won’t matter what you get, once the tech is embedded into society, every company will impose it on you. In short Linux may not do it today, but who’s to say it won’t tomorrow.
I’m sure AI in internet providers Routers isn’t far off, as AI tech gets cheaper each day. I believe companies are already adding AI in hardware for intrusion detection (Cisco), so in future your providers will likely use similar tech for reporting to law enforcement the way we are headed.
hey just an anecdote, i lost my iPhone 11pro and was able to track it in a lyft driver's car for 2 full days after. Looked it up just now and it seems the 11 and above have had this feature, because it was the first to have the U1 chip.
I like how he only said that an iPhone was the 'most advanced spying device' because he's selling an Android based phone.
He wouldn't sell maybe phones if he told the truth about it being any modern smart phone including Android.
😂 you should’ve done the name is. “I”. “iPhone “
License to surveil 😂
ooh please dont invite that rambling dude to your interviews. he talks a lot of stuff.
Well, actually nobody forces you into anything. A phone can work normally as a phone. Oh, you want all the other "free" stuff? No problem, you can pay with your data. There is nothing free on earth .
Well, you payed for the phone, right?
@@etziowingeler3173 If you're not paying for a service, you're the product.
I'll admit, I have a Samsung smart tag in my car. I do look at it different now
Mi6 is an sis or secret intelligence service ageny is a military intelligence sector 6
Hey David! Apple makes use of “Local Differential Privacy” algorithms which ensures that the raw data is randomized before sending it to the servers. I don't understand how this would allow "Big Brother" to de-anonymize user data - or to get to their personal data. If it would be just "encrypted" I would have doubts too, but "Local Differential Privacy" doesn't even trust Apple itself (Keeping in mind that the privacy loss is less).
you're just scratching the surface
this guy is our dreams !!!!
I’m an Apple Developer and the AI is “On Device” unless you use ChatGPT with Siri and it ask you for your permission first.
You are a misinformed developer ;)
Looks like you refer to apple words on what AI is on their phone not what in reality it communicate.
Agree, even Apple makes use of “Local Differential Privacy” algorithms which ensures that the raw data is randomized before sending it to the servers. I don't understand how this would allow "Big Brother" to de-anonymize user data - or to get to their personal data. If it would be just "encrypted" I would have doubts too, but "Local Differential Privacy" doesn't even trust Apple itself (Keeping in mind that the privacy loss is less). No disrespect, but is it just blabbering by the guest?
And also Apple has promised that data sent to their private cloud compute is never ever stored and I believe them.
@@Adamtendo_player_1lol I believe them so inocent. You're the product never forget
User privacy these days is like French fries.
So what is a great phone? Google pixel with different settings?
same question
No phone is great once you take out all Google & Apple spyapps.
How long before Linux is forced to go the same way? It seems that some very big players are involved.
Isn't the Apple servers in China meant to only serve users in that region to abide by their local laws?
Agent - Like from the Matrix
Love your content, David. I really, sincerely do. But did this guy just say, 'it says that on Wikipedia. So Somebody must have information that verifies this.' (14:39). Dude... There's all sorts of stuff on Wikipedia that's unverified 😂. This makes me question the interviewee's integrity at the very beginning. Just my two cents.
iPhone has been listening to you and pushing ads to you based on that for the last 10 years, this isn’t new 😂
Legally, nobody owns content generated by AI right now. It's not your data even though it's about you, generated with your information, made on your computer, with your electricity.
Prove me wrong or help me fix it.
Bluetooth mesh networks... I knew about the tags being used to stalk people years ago... but fuck I had not realised some of these opsec potentials.
I've seen a few bits of malware that mess with antenna drivers, making antennas capable of interacting with frequencies they should not, like wifi/bluetooth touching the 433 of my cnc controller pendant (I'm still not sure which transmitter/antenna was used, just that the signals were being read by and came from the compromised device). I was and still am totally out of my depth trying to understand the decompile of that bit of the thing, which got in via a .net 4 exploit, to me it looked exactly like a micro/portable machine learning model, specifically built to adapt the driver... again totally out of my depth. Spent far too much time messing with faraday cages and signals analysis trying to understand why the pendant was trying to tell the machine to destroy itself (before replacing the control system with an obscurified one that has worked fine since).
I guess some 3 letter agency might be trying to break into all of the private meshes out there? not a totally terrible thing? mixed feelings.
there may be a flip phone in my future
Time to encrypt everything
It's just Robb's friends work for those companies 😂