I want to know if it’s reasonable to expect a degree of privacy with stock android.

  • Jediwan@lemy.lolOP
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    3 days ago

    Understood (I think) so just to be clear, you are saying Google has the power to collet:

    • All signal Messages
    • Device Location at all times
    • Anything displayed on the screen
    • Audio around device (microphone) at all times
    • All files on the device

    Is that accurate?

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      4 days ago

      Not so sure about the signal messages if they’re stored properly encrypted by the app. But yeah, technically they could probably take screenshots. You could do a MiTM with a https proxy and look at wireshark to see what it sends.

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        You could do a MiTM with a https proxy and look at wireshark to see what it sends.

        Surely a professional must have looked into this by now?

        Also I don’t see how Google wouldn’t be able to read Signal messages if they have full unstoppable access to everything? If the user can read it, surely Google can too?

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          3 days ago

          Signal uses E2E encryption. Unless, google can capture the screen displaying the message. It cannot read encrypted signal messages.