On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 10:02:55PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 8/19/14, Eugen Leitl <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 01:33:25PM -0300, Gutem wrote: > >> FYI: > >> http://www.geek.com/android/gyroscopes-in-android-phones-can-be-turned-into-always-on-microphones-1602140/ > > > > Mobile handsets are intrinsically untrusted. You can put up the > > baseband spyware into a MiFi, and only use WLAN from a trusted, > > blobless device, only with end to end encryption. > > > > Of course this means you have to tear down your neural-sourced > > MiFi puck first, to see what you can see. > > > > In unrelated vein, I've recently read that it was the spooks > > that killed the digital pulse radio star, by limiting licensend > > power to toy levels. Apparently they were very unhappy with a > > radio that's hard to look for. > > Link please?
Caveat, speculation: http://www.cringely.com/2014/05/15/nsa-help-kill-uwb/
