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imfromthestars · 3/15/2025, 3:59:16 PM · permalink

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its still surveillable because google is owned by alphabet whose shareholders are mostly shell companies started by the cia....theres a reason the mobile baseband processor market is proprietary and no one is making them and arent opensource... the backdoor is in every baseband processor of every mobile device whatsoever and cannot be bypassed. they can listen to you even with the device powered off. you wouldnt even be aware since the baseband processor can be powered and make transmissions using only the capacitors in a handset. is why they made it so you cant remove the battery these days also aside from the need to replace the device once battery shits the bed. this is why the quantum user experience is releasing in house component-made handsets and service in which they will have the first 100% degoogled OS that was stripped of all google atributes capable of outside manipulation and redesigned from the kernel up by one of the people who designed the Android OS in the first place. they employed some of the top minds to design the only way to encrypt data that doesnt use any method or basis that the current encryption methods are based and involve time as part of the process and cannot be broken by any means including AI, and making it future-proof aside from maybe a really smart remote viewer, which tech wouldnt be a barrier in that case anyway. For more info, see the comment i made on this post to the OP.

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imfromthestars · 3/15/2025, 7:39:55 PM · permalink

I've only just managed to check the Red Magic specs this morning following your post. The specs seem decent enough, though it seems most of their devices are geared towards gaming.

A couple of pointers:

1\. The Magic Red system does not acknowledge Google's Play and Protect system, meaning there is no check on the app store that Magic Red uses to validate against malware.

2\. The bootloader is locked. Any breakage of this invalidates the phone warranty, if that is important to you.

3\. Magic Red "phones home" often using your telemetry data though I'm not certain what data is copied from your phone. Most Chinese manufactured phones do this. There are apps that can block this, but you need to know what you're doing first as you could block essential services like receiving relevant software updates.

4\. Some people have reported that they have been successful in loading custom ROM's such as Lineage and Calyx. Bear in mind though, when people talk about alternative customized ROM's they normally group Lineage, Calyx and Graphene OS in the same bracket, but this far is from accurate as Graphene's requirements are far more stringent than the other two, particularly around the area of Secure Boot.

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