Even If Your Phone's Encrypted, the Cops Found a Way In🎙Darknet Diaries Ep. 105 Secret Cells

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5 ай бұрын

Every phone on the market is built to spy on you, but there are some encrypted phones made for privacy. There's only one problem: They're being sold to criminals.
Joseph Cox, Senior Staff Writer at Motherboard, breaks down the world of encrypted phones -- a very good idea gone horribly wrong.
Visit darknetdiaries.com/episode/105 for a list of sources, full transcripts, and to listen to all episodes.

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@euphoriumx2652 5 ай бұрын

People who care about their privacy are treated like criminals, it's ridiculous.

@Cambridge_English_Teacher 3 ай бұрын

If you are not working for my government, you are criminal by default

@SilentStudioExplores 2 ай бұрын

"if you have nothing to hide what are you so worried about?" is the most annoying statement for me.

@Youngbl33zy 2 ай бұрын

Your mom found a was in the darkness too 😏

@PatReid1775 9 күн бұрын

@Youngbl33zy is English your first language?

@Youngbl33zy 9 күн бұрын

@@PatReid1775 no

@Iverson605 5 ай бұрын

When law enforcement more criminals than real criminals

@CapnSnackbeard 5 ай бұрын

We sign it all away with a smile.

@lowwastehighmelanin 5 ай бұрын

Always were

@whannabi 5 ай бұрын

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.

@UNcommonSenseAUS 5 ай бұрын

Modus operandi

@gh0stpyram1d 4 ай бұрын

fusus on aws

@wlanstheme2819 5 ай бұрын

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

@nothingness217 5 ай бұрын

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.

@kzrlgo 5 ай бұрын

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.

@chateaudisco1436 5 ай бұрын

@@kzrlgohey I’m interested in your reasons/input on this….

@stefanjohansson2373 5 ай бұрын

Only said by the publisher. 😂

@mrjackalope382 5 ай бұрын

Yeah he really deserves a big push for sure!

@MiCKEYTheKiDxlYLPlx 5 ай бұрын

I think Jack is just uploading older episodes onto youtube, his schedule for new episodes is usually around once a month.

@gavinkitchen1472 5 ай бұрын

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.

@iviui2d3i2 5 ай бұрын

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.

@UglyNTRBastard 5 ай бұрын

@@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.

@ninocrown3247 4 ай бұрын

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.

@bumlookercheekymonkey3985 5 ай бұрын

One could argue that the police should be sentenced to 9 yrs in jail for breaking into encrypted phones without the permission of the owner.

@kekistanimememan170 4 ай бұрын

That’s dumb.

@xscitobor1233 5 ай бұрын

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.

@Thisguy88191 5 ай бұрын

Data from push notifications* that's more than just the text or whatever

@xscitobor1233 3 ай бұрын

@@Thisguy88191 Never said it wasn't the data, nor specified it was just text

@ck17350 3 ай бұрын

@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.

@xscitobor1233 3 ай бұрын

@@ck17350 didn't ask, also ik I listen to the podcast i was commenting more on the re release timing with the news

@VitalTechnology_ 5 ай бұрын

It is always a pleasure when Jack Rhysider uploads!

@zangin 5 ай бұрын

i’m happily a patron of him

@Gspec5 5 ай бұрын

At this stage, the only way to get your hands on a privacy phone is to write the code yourself 😅

@EmmanuelKasirivuLugoloobi 5 ай бұрын

developers assemble

@YoutubeWatcher264 5 ай бұрын

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.

@iplaypocketfjords 5 ай бұрын

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.

@lowwastehighmelanin 5 ай бұрын

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...

@pj6299 5 ай бұрын

Yeah so what do you expect?? they will use it against you ofcourse

@laurencemaddox 4 ай бұрын

@@lowwastehighmelanin If I could be an Indian Security Engineer, I would be so happy...

@leighanne3266 5 ай бұрын

BlackBerry was private...that's why it's no longer available

@thethree60five 5 ай бұрын

Hardware, true.

@TheB00tyWarrior 5 ай бұрын

100%

@mauricioreyes3372 5 ай бұрын

This.

@UglyNTRBastard 5 ай бұрын

Flip phones are probably more private than smart ones..... but they're still glowable which is why you can still buy them.

@krimsonsun10 5 ай бұрын

Bro this is the most personally relatable video you have ever made. I want privacy, but i do not want devices associated with criminals.

@Hardcopy2362 5 ай бұрын

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.

@toooes 5 ай бұрын

??? Life is short. Have your cake and eat it too

@Natty183 5 ай бұрын

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.

@Natty183 5 ай бұрын

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.

@LabGecko 5 ай бұрын

@@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.

@noanyobiseniss7462 5 ай бұрын

Amazon knew a guys daughter was pregnant before he knew and started spamming the family baby stuff ads.

@KIJYOPSO 2 ай бұрын

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...

@red_ben3487 Ай бұрын

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

@s_shake 5 ай бұрын

Your stories get me through work

@eyephpmyadmin6988 5 ай бұрын

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

@user-im8oc4us9p 22 күн бұрын

LMAO turn off my cell phone... You go ahead and do that. Still LMMFAO🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😭

@robd003 5 ай бұрын

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.

@schwingedeshaehers 5 ай бұрын

there are other ways too, but they are not that convenient. (threema allows other notification methods)

@xCheddarB0b42x 5 ай бұрын

This was in the news recently, the capability to exploit push notifications for surveillance.

@schwingedeshaehers 5 ай бұрын

@@xCheddarB0b42x I think that is not what they meant

@Shuroii 5 ай бұрын

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.

@jamesfrancom8100 4 ай бұрын

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.)

@Ndqar 5 ай бұрын

I send cash to an organization that regularly breaks the law. I pay taxes.

@HCG 5 ай бұрын

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.

@MaggieKeizai 5 ай бұрын

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.

@rarefrog 5 ай бұрын

right, it also seems more convenient than using an ipod as you main driver

@nexovec 5 ай бұрын

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.

@MsHojat 5 ай бұрын

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.

@Andrew-ci1dg 5 ай бұрын

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.

@brilobox2 4 ай бұрын

It never did. In the past the professionals were experts in covert entry, surveilance techniques, eavesdropping and interrogation. Many still are.

@Babihrse 2 ай бұрын

It's like a lock it can be hard to break but if your experienced and skilled enough it becomes ridiculously easy.

@0therun1t21 5 ай бұрын

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.

@notsam498 5 ай бұрын

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.

@0therun1t21 5 ай бұрын

@@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!

@MsHojat 5 ай бұрын

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.

@codemiesterbeats 5 ай бұрын

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 😂

@jacksoncremean1664 4 ай бұрын

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

@Prodbysomari 5 ай бұрын

The ultimate opsec is not having a phone or computer and living a life style that doesn’t require one

@UglyNTRBastard 5 ай бұрын

So basically being old school amish lol

@CollagenExpert 5 ай бұрын

I’m not living in da wuds

@rumplstiltztinkerstein 5 ай бұрын

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.

@omegadroidzero 5 ай бұрын

use Multi-factor Authentication for one. For two, how would a random person in a cell center know what you sound like???

@rumplstiltztinkerstein 5 ай бұрын

@@omegadroidzero Sadly even the Pentagon got hacked by some dude calling tech support pretending to be a company Chief Financial Officer.

@MsHojat 5 ай бұрын

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.

@rumplstiltztinkerstein 5 ай бұрын

@@MsHojat There is a darknet diaries episode about it.

@no-name1.612 5 ай бұрын

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.

@PatReid1775 9 күн бұрын

Government: You can't transmit on our bandwidth without us having a tap on your frequencies!

@FlyinRaptorJesus 5 ай бұрын

It's terrible how we have zero privacy what so ever..

@katie7748 5 ай бұрын

What's worse is people who think somehow if they do this, that, or the other, that they DO have privacy SMH

@MsHojat 5 ай бұрын

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.

@NodSquad 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for the content Jack

@Cambridge_English_Teacher 3 ай бұрын

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.

@TiagoTiagoT 5 ай бұрын

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.

@UglyNTRBastard 5 ай бұрын

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.

@Secret-Robot Ай бұрын

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 KZfaq limelight but not you. Awesome, keep it up, and reach out if you ever need to confidently vent.

@poppy2244 5 ай бұрын

Thank god. I’ve missed you. Love the show!

@TT-ez3hr 5 ай бұрын

People say they want privacy yet they post every second of their lives on social mdia.

@PhotoJeticPoet 3 ай бұрын

Those are 2 different groups of people

@hiiamalice7586 5 ай бұрын

Jack, for what you said in the intro, what do you think about GrapheneOS?

@isaacnewton8983 5 ай бұрын

Absolutely a treat, every time, thanks for the frequent uploads, every time I see one I get exited

@beachbumsailordude 5 ай бұрын

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.

@3OBTPA 5 ай бұрын

Authorities posed as criminals? That's like saying William Shakespeare posed as a writer and poet.

@dracula7779 5 ай бұрын

Classic authorities

@erbalumkan369 5 ай бұрын

Cultural appropriation.

@jc-tu6pg 5 ай бұрын

2:00 never trust a person who pronounces "coupons" as Kew-pons. They 100% feds

@edw2241 5 ай бұрын

Not a single mention or comment about GrapheneOS??

@ranxerox692008 3 ай бұрын

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.

@adfaklsdjf 5 ай бұрын

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

@user-iw1lp5fq3q 5 ай бұрын

I could imagine that Google and Apple could use the info they have on us to control us😢

@dannyteo5630 5 ай бұрын

Are using* :)

@dannyteo5630 5 ай бұрын

We are just lucky their interest is capitalism so far.

@stefanjohansson2373 5 ай бұрын

“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. 😂

@dipf7705 5 ай бұрын

@@dannyteo5630thats generous

@katie7748 5 ай бұрын

@@dannyteo5630Their bosses, however, are interested in much more than that. Which is why They do NOTHING to stop it.

@abscess7476 5 ай бұрын

Great content as usual. My favorite channel. Keep up the great content!

@jackhsrper 5 ай бұрын

He just gets better!!!!! This was an awesome episode !!!

@matthewhaworth5935 5 ай бұрын

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.

@lowwastehighmelanin 5 ай бұрын

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.

@Heynmffc 5 ай бұрын

33:22 it wasn’t reverse engineering. They had source code

@MsHojat 5 ай бұрын

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.

@user-wz3uq8np8o 5 ай бұрын

do you have twitter?

@QuixEnd 5 ай бұрын

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

@Godlovesu591 5 ай бұрын

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 5 ай бұрын

Dang, you don't get it. Sigh. Put simply, no. And there's a difference between secret and private.

@Godlovesu591 5 ай бұрын

@@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.

@cecilbdemento7736 3 ай бұрын

This is the craziest story I've heard in a long time on so many levels. Orwell would be dumbfounded.

@Rezin_8 5 ай бұрын

As far as I'm concerned every cell phone should be free 10 years ago😂 collecting data for free for decade

@jonnywaselectric 5 ай бұрын

I love listening to your content, thank you for making it

@brothercannon 5 ай бұрын

I listen to the podcast at 1.25 speed. Hearing Jack’s voice at normal speed here makes him sound drunk to me.

@NexGen-3D 4 ай бұрын

The reason why the phantom phone most likely took of here in the AU is we have mandatory data retention laws forced on us.

@jchastain789 5 ай бұрын

I been waiting for this episode

@jameswatkinsiii7834 4 ай бұрын

Leave it to Jack to find a way to use a phone with no Sim, mind Blown, well played Sir.

@halo4life166 5 ай бұрын

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....

@jolo3118 5 ай бұрын

Ahh.. the bedtime story I never knew I needed. 😊

@albion03 5 ай бұрын

"This is a massive book." That statement says it all.

@jdwar11 16 күн бұрын

Such violations of human decency and rights. There is no due process when spyware is used whatsoever.

@Mr.DontGiveAFuck 5 ай бұрын

You'll NEVER get privacy on any phone. Even McAfee couldnt do it.. Anyone claiming so is full of it.

@ardeladimwit 5 ай бұрын

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.

@alexbenzie6585 5 ай бұрын

At least people were aware of what data was being shared on those lines....

@PatReid1775 9 күн бұрын

Entrapment by third party needs to be against the law!

@magiwarwolf1 5 ай бұрын

Damn dude. An ipod touch was my first ever "smart phone". I even had metasploint on that neat little bastard.

@draufgeschissen 4 ай бұрын

who would have thought the gov has backdoors for tech? our privacy is a joke for a long time now.

@kongle8737 5 ай бұрын

Yes! Another video!

@glenn8272 5 ай бұрын

wonderful video. Ive found session app ticks a lot of boxes for me

@advhawk6455 5 ай бұрын

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.

@jamesfrederick6914 2 ай бұрын

Amen

@ThunderDomeBoxingTalk Ай бұрын

If you’re not that important then why not just use their phones anyway?

@PatReid1775 9 күн бұрын

Because they will find a crime to charge you with eventually. We have the RIGHT to fight Authoritarian tyrannical actions by ALL governments. @ThunderDomeBoxingTalk

@braddeicide 5 ай бұрын

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 :(

@anotherguy9402 Ай бұрын

13:00 of course you sell them the lighter because the building across the street is your competition 😊

@jeff-hh9mc 2 ай бұрын

This was the literal episode of better call Saul.

@phil2768 4 ай бұрын

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.

@ultrawrestling 5 ай бұрын

14:30 - "And they (the authoritys) told me the business is legal." - On illegal things, when an authority is saying it, chances are good the are deep inside - are one the distributing side.

@PatReid1775 9 күн бұрын

@jackrhysider, it would be great to hear any updates on some of these court battles.

@jc-tu6pg 5 ай бұрын

I can't understand how this channel is so underrated

@Veede0 5 ай бұрын

A lot of his listeners access these episodes via the podcast.

@LifeSizeBox 5 ай бұрын

1:26 Dude has a very good point.

@PatReid1775 9 күн бұрын

Can someone not start up a company to sell truly secure communications and not get involved with any of the end users?

@cristianstoica4544 5 ай бұрын

One of the mistakes of PS and others was to rise above the noise floor by not selling to everyone

@JP-vx2sr 5 ай бұрын

I wonder if he didn't put the backdoor in because he didn't want dangerous people clipping him

@vernatley221 5 ай бұрын

Your looking the wrong way while thinking it's the phone that's tracking you

@MewtwoStruckBack 5 ай бұрын

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.

@bloodstripeleatherneck1941 4 ай бұрын

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.

@enermaxstephens1051 5 ай бұрын

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.

@norberttw301 5 ай бұрын

Such interesting stories. Work is s breeze with these on

@anotherguy9402 Ай бұрын

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.

@ewreck944 5 ай бұрын

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

@Laotzu.Goldbug 2 ай бұрын

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.

@cdenver 5 ай бұрын

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.

@bykurt_is 5 ай бұрын

Well well. Posted 20min ago. Guess insomnia prevails

@etyrnal 5 ай бұрын

Does the federal government and it's agents PROFIT from crime, criminal activity, etc? Don't they fine people? Etc.

@user-cb3qr9dt2k 5 ай бұрын

Still own a flip phone, and my android rarely goes with me and has the sensors off button permanently set active.

@dave24-73 4 ай бұрын

Should have kept that Old school prepaid Nokia. Than pay $1000 for a phone that only emails.

@timf8684 5 ай бұрын

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.

@ThirtytwoJ 5 ай бұрын

Blue line gang is just the bottom rung of that ladder.

@katie7748 5 ай бұрын

🎯

@michaeldurrant8446 5 ай бұрын

I'm tired of this lazy canard. If you want better government, vote smarter and get involved in your community.

@diebeforeyoulive8622 5 ай бұрын

Hey Jack, upload your podcast!!! Great work

@smellymala3103 5 ай бұрын

They gonna be like fuck this guy loves drugs it's incredible!

@killitgameing658 5 ай бұрын

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