9:30 if you're knowledgeable about privacy threats and just wanna hear about lineage

As a software engineer, everything Rob said with respect to how Google and big tech tracks you is spot on. Thanks Rob for the excellent security review and the high-value PSA (Public Service Announcement).

I am throwing my phone out and gonna live my life out in the forest. Goodbye everybody.

as an experienced developer, I'm impressed with you knowledge, subscribed in a heartbeat!

Thank you for this video. English is not my primary language and I don't need to read the auto subtitle, thanks to your slow and clear speech. Edit : subscribed. Your new videos in 4K are so nice to look at

This is why i was so upset when google bought the project for modular phones it would have been amazing to have removable gps wifi and bluetooth moduals or hardware kill switches. Google killed it immediately because this would have destroyed the phone market(driving prices down due to 3rd party hardware competition) and messed with their data analytics.

In current scenario ... All these knowledge should be part of school education ...

Dude really appreciated this! You really broke down everything in easy to understand way! Thank you! Definitely subscribing!

Stunning job, Rob! That’s something everyone should watch before using any android smartphone.

Love the content, really eye opening!

Very interesting ! Definitely worthes warching it ! "doing a little for your privacy is better than doing nothing"... well said !

Thank you for your time. very intuitive video. Thanks again

Never have seen your videos before but this one sold me! Very well done! Subscribed!

Great vid. Thankyou for taking the time to make

This has been so informative! I appreciate all the effort of explaining WHAT our choices are first before making a decision. Even my dopamine-starved brain sat and listen to every word you said. I've subbed and liked!

Great and very informative! I Zucking love it!

the next big thing in youtube. Keep up the good work, sir.

You can disable WiFi Scanning, and Bluetooth Scanning. A simple RF meter will reveal if the phone is still emanating RF with those features disabled, and while the phone is in Airplane Mode to confirm.

Great video with a lot of information, clearly, slowly and detailed enough to understand! I would have appreciated you to clean your sweater though. Distracted me a lot xD

Thanks Rob! That was educational.

Wow, just so happen to run into your video and I'm sold. This is great stuff, did not miss a beat and well put together. I will be tuning and network your channel. Your skill as an instructor is extremely important for detailing the purpose of each category, and you nail it. Trust me, I will browse through all your videos. Thank you sir for your contribution of knowledge.

I'm curious why this video is still on KZfaq!?😳

5:36 Nice router name 😂

Excellent video about the lack of privacy and too much power Big Tech has! Congratulations!

Ty learned a ton and subbed up

Nice job, Rob... Just in time and just what I needed to know. Keep 'em coming, if you have the bandwidth... Rob N.

Boomers: I don't trust those smart devices Millenials: lol ok boomer Zoomers: I don't trust those smart devices

Why didn't I see this channel sooner. Very informative sir thank you.

the mistake oneplus made with the opo was that they made it too future proof, am still using it, Los is still compatible and being updated for opo

Great video. Wld be good to see a comparison with Graphene OS.

Thank you! Very interesting!

Thank you for detailed explanation

Thank you for the sanity (and thoroughness) around this! Just when I need it! TY! I'll come find you on LBRY. Cheers!

i like your precise straight to the point approach ,easy for everybody to understand explanations without delving to deep into the technical mumble jumble .

Great video. Thank you. Subscribed.

Thanks so much, very helpful.

Love this guy

I'm delighted that I found your tutorial. What a wake up call on securing our phones. Thank You !!!

The one tech security reviewer who does not talk at the speed of sound !!

Good to know & thanks for the info.

GPS has worked indoors for years ever since the company called Sirf invented a GPS receiver that can pick up fragments of GPS signal and piece them together. Obviously outdoors is a better signal but you can get a GPS position indoors these days

Great channel. Glad, that I found.

Your voice is full of melody. Good diction!

5:55 This is major information. I knew about firebase but didn't know other telemetry can be baked in as well!

Very Imformative. ty..

Hey Rob, can you make a video about the evolution of cyber surveillance in phone's? I would be intrested to know how thing's where implemented the way they are. You also inspired me to switch from windows to linux and start studying to become a system and network admin. i will try to do this for my phone as well.

Thank you for the content.. can you explain the Exacly different between this and e/os ... would you Recommend e/os ? And can you Tell something about the Fairphone which include e/ os

good vid and very easy to understand. thank you!

14:10 this is a problem that isn't unique to just phones, like how HP Laptop audio drivers were found to have built-in keyloggers. It just goes to show there is no software solution for top-notch privacy. The only Android phone I know about to have completely rewritten drivers is the galaxy S3, and that is hardly powerful enough to keep up with today's demands.

This guy is hilarious. His ominous opening tune is the best. I thought he was gonna jump through the screen and slash my throat when that jingle started up!

I really enjoyed watching your video, thank you very much for all this information, thank you

Hi Rob, thanks for your informative videos. I would be very pleased if you reviewed CalyxOS some day in the near future.

Thanks for the excellent information. Would like to hear your views on LineageOS for MicroG with regards to these issues you discussed. Many thanks

I am a sysadmin and this guy is spot on try to share the video to educate more ppl ... again NEVER PUT ANY important info data on your mobile devices if u have no choice and need to have a mobile payment method use a different small credit card with a limit of like 500$ on it etc try to seperate your real bank accounts and credit card from the mobile device

Love this video

I don‘t even own a Android device and I still watched the whole thing. Very interesting.

First time seeing one of your videos. Extremely impressed by the way you broke down your message in a logical step by step manner that made it easy to understand and come to the conclusions drawn. I did not know GOOGLE had designed so many features designed to track and record various characteristics of people! A couple of questions tho... I realized when I was a young adolescent that if I wrapped my phone on aluminum foil and tried calling it, it would not ring, even if I was mere feet away from it. Would blocking its ability to recieve and send signals like so also be efficient against the threats mentioned? Also, if one was to use a different OS and use apps outside of the play store, do you mean you can go to websites like apk pure and download apps from there that are found on the play store (whether created by Google or not.) You mention wifi triangulation {I believe that's what you referred to it as}... If you turned off the wifi, would it still be able to? Many phones these days have the option of spoofing the MAC address, does this solve the problem of them using your MAC address? You mention kill switches... Do certain OSes not have the ability to use the software to turn the hardware off? And last but not least, I've been considering rooting my phone for quite some time now and recently purchased an Umidigi A11 Pro Max. It seems very vanilla and very easy to root and flash... Is this phone capable of running Ubuntu touch? If not can you provide me with a few examples? Excellent presentation! Subscribing right off the batt!

just replaced the old samsung touchwiz of my Samsung Tab S 8.4 to Lineage OS 14.1 , i love it, smooth as butter and daily updates, up to December 5, 2020 android security patch lately, waiting for February 2021 release... :D

Thanks

That location marker @5:36 :D

i hate apps i hate notifications i dont understand why apps exist i just want to log in to websites and log out if i want to i have no way to check whether the things you say here are true but you seem to be informative, which i appreciate

Very interessting and what do you think about Sailfish OS ? and Havoc OS ?

Excellent!!!!

Hi Rob, in the description of the threats, you say Wifi Triangulation happens because Network Scanning is done in first hand. That way, Google collects the scanning infos and then eventually communicate them to third partiy apps. However you say later that there should not be any network scanning happening in LineageOS but that wifi triangulation should not be any different from an android phone. My question is then : How third party apps would acquire the infos from the Net Scan if it does'nt occur ?

You really have inspired me to move forward on my own projects - I have a "Red Hydrogen One" just for this purpose being as it has a fairly peppy Snapdragon 835 / Adreno 540 with 128GB of storage and 6GB RAM - I have looked into AOSP and now LineageOS and intend to Not use Google apps any longer but also hoping to find nice replacements for Messaging that endlessly saves my SMS/MMS as well decent Picture management and capture - I kind of expect to loose the nifty 3D image and video but perhaps Red's player will work on AOSP or Lineage - Geez, I am half temped to ask if you take in outside phones like this to do the deed on for me - I would Not hold you accountable for issues of course since this is most certainly a shot in the dark... in any case, much thanks for all you do!

Thanks Rob

Excellent video, very informative thank you.

We are in a double bind

anytime i set up my g account on a new phone i always uncheck network scanning and location access for sure. id love to see some company come out with an actual affordable phone that is on par with android and i phone that is pro privacy.

As you appreciate queries, if i heard you right, I would like to do the honors: 1. Your motive behind naming a particular custom ROM developer when you know that all custom ROMs are built on the code that google releases to AOSP on its own terms and conditions. 2. Why this mismatch between saying and doing? For example, being google agnostic and running a channel here on KZfaq, an app developed and controlled by Google. How'd you explain it? 3. Any app made to use WiFi, be it open source or proprietary, is bound to scan AP's otherwise it will burn a hole in users metered data. In order to connect to the AP, it needs its exact location and MAC which is impossible without utilizing the GPS. If these locations and MAC's are stored on the device, they are equally open to all potential abusers. Then, why blame only Google knowing that it is the big data miner in the market? 4. Given the continued attempts from Governments all over the globe to regulate and control the internet, what do you suppose that different ISP's should do? Should they rise against the law of the land and get kicked in the belly or what? 5. This point is related to your wifi trangulation remark. Anonymously determining user locations is part of virtually every cell phone carrier's terms-of-service, though most phones allow the user to turn off location services. If the ball is in a user's coat, why do you blame anyone else? And how would you explain this that the same WiFi triangulation is used to track persons in a storm, blizzard, or cast away by some shipwreck, etc? 6. With the exception of Linux kernel, entire Android OS is developed by Google from scratch. Interestingly, Google also contributes to the development of Linux Kernel, sending patches etc. Then, how much difference would removing a single app like 'Play store' make? What about those millions of code snippets that run deep in the OS informing Google about everything it's interested in. Microsoft's windows suffers the same setback and privacy conscious people started to moving to Linux. 7. Web-Apps are better? Google's Chrome, Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Apple's Safari are all a part of this game. No doubt, there are some privacy respecting browsers like Mozilla's Firefox or Tor browser, but they can't be used to their full potential on a platform like Android. So, there is no foolproof privacy and security when you know you can't control all things of which Android is composed of. Perhaps, that's why some tech savvy people prefer Linux as it can be built from scratch, controlling every bit of data entering or leaving the machine. 8. Pardon my French, what I found in this video is an atrocious concoction of crap, completely incoherent, leading by the topic "Is LineageOS Safe for privacy" but never touching it clearly or giving evidence in support of or against it. Your 18 minute video can hardly provide a single substantial information which could identify LineageOS in particular as a good or bad custom ROM. Whatever things you mentioned are so general and applicable to every goddam ROM and gadget that the viewer ultimately forgets why he or she is actually viewing your video. 9. Let me put it this way - world Governments today have geared their efforts to to regulate "Internet" and are always in search of excuses to make laws in this context. You might be familiar with the terms like "Five Eyes", " Nine Eyes", "Fourteen Eyes", " Trinaitra", "the Great Wall", the India Wall" and so on. When our governments don't want us to be secure, how can we blame big organizations whose sole motive is profits? 8. When a phone or some electronic gadget comes to the market, it had to sign many agreements with the government and comply with the terms therein. You'll always see these terms are government friendly and tax related. Did you ever see a pro-citizen condition in these agreements? For example, govt enforcing the vendor for post sales service to customers. Had this been so, you would not have felt constrained to look for a new phone in just four years period. What about the hard earned mony you are forced to waste in the shape of your old phone which is getting outdated due to nonavailability of updates and security patches? Who's responsible for this - a phone vendor who wants to sell you a new phone or the government which lets him get away with it? 9. Scaring away the phone users is no solution, I agree. But, they have to understand that social media is not the only place to be idling. Internet is also an informal school where you could become aware through search and research. An informed person is the only one who can live with ever changing technology without making fuss.

1.25 speed but very informative subbed

I have deployed pi-hole on home network. In addition to box standard gravity black list, I have added many more suspicious regex such as jio, facebook, Chinese sites and mobile phone vendors’ api and telemetry uri

Great video

Odd question but can other people view us on the front or rear facing cameras? Can people access my pics? If I took nude shots of myself, should I be concerned that it will pop up in one of the thousands of porn sites? Or are photos, vid or the phone camera not a concern? Thanks

Thanks!

So, which OS would be the best to cover all four categorys mentioned and explained, as much as possible, and is there such OS at all possible?

Dear Rob, great channel and well put together program. You're doing a great service to inform the public on how the big companies are spying on them. Now, I've heard you mention it is safer to run a browser's web apps on your phone, because many of them aren't ladent with spyware. Could you recommend a mobile browser with a wide variety of web apps. Or one that you use? Thanks a bunch.

KZfaq really needs to introduce that 4x video speed already. 2x is like normal speed for this video...

When I met my gf she gave me her phone number and 2 days later she was on my Facebook recommendations. WTF!! Also moved and Facebook started recommending people that were in my area. WTF!!! My friend made a Facebook. He didn't add anybody and he popped up on my recommendations even though he hadn't added anyone..WTF!!!!!

Is there still wifi triangulation if the phone is already connected to wifi?

Java is used less since a couple of years now. Android apps are now written in Kotlin, it's a much better and modern programming language. Android also uses ART instead of dalvik now.

is there a way to run grapheneos from a usb stick in your laptop or run that in a virtualmachine?

I startet subscribe after 3 minutes 😂

Nice video, but i think you should explain that Lineage OS is an Android custom rom so in the end its still android in the base code.

Question, can you install lineage os on an older device to revive life back into it? I have a galaxy s8 that no longer gets security updates. There are other issues with the phone but I would like to keep it as long as possible until it officially dies and no longer works

Hi Rob, what privacy based custom rom would you recommend. Also what do you think about blackberry 10 os

You need to put the video speed to 1.5 to listen him speak in normal speed 😂

What is the difference between network scanning and wifi triangulation?

Great great video

Treasure of information

I dont know if u will even read this, but to the mac adress part, on the PC it obviously makes sense to spoof it since on PC we have root access anyways but what bout phones? Cuz i know rooting opens backdoors but in case i wanna stay safe from getting identified by my MAC? What brings more risk? Leaking my MAC or rooting?

I wached your sensors video. is lineage os secure at this point?

Hey, I attended a workshop about online self defense by Digital Courage, a German Data Protection NGO, a couple of weeks ago. They told us about Lineage OS which is how I found your great channel. While my phone is supported by the system my tablet is not. Neither it is supported by Ubuntu touch. Are there ways of running lineage os or ubuntu touch on a Samsung Galaxy Tab A? Greetings from Germany (=

That's why I use rooted devices with firewall and xposed framework, blocking all no necessary outgoing traffic and providing false data about location, contacts etc. to apps.

Hey. How do you know this much information? Do you have any source about them? Thx

What about a good voice assistant, like a replacement of "hey Google what is my next turn" or "hey Google how far away is the next rest area" ... driving an 80 thousand pound weapon of mass destruction... I don't look at my phone when I drive, and i use voice assistant alot .. And what are my options with the Samsung Note ten plus 5G?

You are doing a GREAT job, Mr. Braxman. Speak a bit faster. I hope you are abe to teach us how to deGoogle our phones. I want to try this on a cheap phone first.

Would a Faraday bag help with the wifi triangulation issue?

I'm a seasoned seamstress by hobby, and an infosec consultant by trade. I'm thinking long and hard about a line of faraday cellphone cases, backpacks, and handbags. Thoughts? Kill it right at the physical layer?

honestly, i'm excited of how are we walking on the edge of privacy nowadays. i would really like to move from stock rom to a custom. but my stock samsung 21 has no custom working os alternatives.the only way to get rid of google is by disabling it via adb. same as samsung apps. but there is no good guide of what apps exactly are safe to disable.