Smartphones with Qualcomm chips were found to send private user information, including IP address, unique ID, mobile country code, back to the U.S. chipmaker, according to a report by the German security company Nitrokey first released on April 25.
I wonder if Mediatek is any better. They’re the biggest competition that Qualcomm has right now (except for maybe Samsung’s Exynos), but honestly, I wouldn’t be shocked if everyone’s doing this.
hell at&t was secretly splitting fiber to siphon all traffic on their backbone to the nsa back in like 2005 … if they’re going to those lengths you can be sure they’re considering all the other avenues as well
I wonder if Mediatek is any better. They’re the biggest competition that Qualcomm has right now (except for maybe Samsung’s Exynos), but honestly, I wouldn’t be shocked if everyone’s doing this.
It’s almost certain that all telecom companies do this.
hell at&t was secretly splitting fiber to siphon all traffic on their backbone to the nsa back in like 2005 … if they’re going to those lengths you can be sure they’re considering all the other avenues as well
basically if you want to do something privately then don’t use a computer