A friend was travelling abroad and he was concerned about the Country in question checking his social media on his phone and generally examining his phone. So he asked for a recommendation and this made me understand the problem with those that think a hardened phone is the answer. In certain countries, certain OS choices ring alarm bells and trigger warnings about who you might be. Thus the chances of actually being placed under real surveillance just multiplies by making the wrong choice. The answer might actually be just a mostly empty phone. Leave important stuff at home and away from the phone. Let's talk about this and why this is.
Something very basic that the average person does not care about even if they knew about it. Your every click on a website is tracked. Every single one. How does this work? Surprisingly easy enough to understand yet apparently no one wants to explain this.
There are ways around this for the privacy conscious but the mechanics of the tracking has to be fully understood.
A rant. The most irritating thing for those of us who are privacy conscious are comments like "what are you hiding?" or "as long as you follow the law who cares?" or "you're paranoid".
I'm sure I'm not alone on this. Well, if you get irritated by this, then there is nothing wrong with you. Ignore these NPCs but you also need a smart understanding of why you do need to care and why these NPCs are the ones who are wrong.
The intent to scan content to counter end-to-end encryption is no longer theoretical with the passing of the UK Online Safety Bill.
How would the OS makers then build in client-side scanning? Let's tackle a theoretical project to do this on your favorite operating system (Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android).
This would be how I would do it.
