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I can live with a dumb phone. I guess those will come with replaceable batteries at least.
To be fair, there is a lot you need to do to "escape" fully, such as turning off your WiFi when you go out, and not installing Google Apps, just to give two unusual examples.
I do it, though, so it's not that hard.
I love the language used there. Backdoor, really? I'm certain that Huawei has a cubicle farm of people watching your phone, waiting to delete photos from twitter.
Definitely couldn't just be an unintended software issue. People are hilarious sometimes.
Uhh what? It's definitely intended from what I can see. Call it frontdoor then, if it's not a backdoor.
From what you can see? From what you can see a notification pops up, stating that Twitter has deleted a photo. Which, according to Huawei through TechRadar, is a glitch (twitter moves the photos to a specified folder, and therefor triggers the notification).
https://www.techradar.com/news/huawei-promises-it-isnt-deleting-photos-downloaded-from-twitter
Ohh I see. It's not only a "glitch", but the photo is not even deleted?
In that case there is of course little point in discussing this any further. How silly that this even made it into the news..
To Google or Apple, I sacrifice some privacy and get some convenience (maps, clouds etc.) in return. To Huawei, I might sacrifice more privacy and only to get more shxt in return and dang your info is sold to the Chinese spammers.
Mobile phones were first and foremost developed for mass surveillance and only secondary for your personal enjoyment.
Saw video, Twitter app deleted picture not Huawei
If you truly, utterly, value your privacy, there are four things you must absolutely not use.
If you use any of those and still preach about privacy, you are eol (End of Life).
Just tried it on my Mate20 Pro and it doesn't have that issue...I was able to download a pic and Google Photos was able to detect the new photo folder and asked me if I want to upload it to Google Photos...
I think if this phone was another Android phone (say Samsung), people will complain about the app and see if there is another app installed, and when it comes to Huawei, then it is Huawei being the China spy...
No. They can sniff your gsm calls, sms messages and triangulate you with dumb phones too. Base stations are omnipresent and considering beamforming, yes, they see it all.
But google won't know.
LOL, hilarious comment without further reading/saw the video..
This may be only enabled for Chinese customers because Twitter is prohibited in China and HUAWEI is always happy to cooperate with such censorship with gov
You left out bank cards. Paid actor confirmed.
I think the first fatal choice was buying a Chinese maker phone. American phones are bad enough, but China is one giant privacy invasion experiment.
Using numerous huawei devices and thankfully doesnt happen to me.
Also it was a sideloaded twitter app thats been deleting the photos not the huawei os. Twitter is banned in China so users are forced to sideload the app when using china rom or devices purchased on chinese online shopping sites.
This is fake news though.
No, this is definitely not fake news. Phone manufacturers are spying on us! They all work with their evil government!
Why I know this? I just found a spy software called ’System’ on my Sumsung Galaxy yesterday night! It automatically deleted all the pictures I downloaded from Twitter. All those pictures about our enemies are gone! Now I’m on my way to the extraction point, since my cover has been blown.
Goodbye guys. I won't be able to see you guys again. You know there is no Internet in North Korea.
@Kiwi83 Sure, but you're going to Perth..
oh shit I gave up too much
Android is built though to notify/ask you a ton of permission for your private info which nobody properly reads just like why this thread was created
"So we are all wrong, Twitter is not deleting it, Huawei is not deleting as well, Twitter moves it instead."
If you would have followed that story to the end they caved. Pissed off a bunch of sweater wearers when they did, but they eventually folded.
They had no choice it was either fold or the U.S. govt told them they would hire hackers to get it.
@AuroraZ I cant see that they have actually helped the fbi bypass the iphone encryption/lock? Do you have a source of this?
What they have done, is offered to serve up iphone backups and the likes - but not actually helped them bypass the encryption / unlock the phone afaik?
ref. https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/8/16626452/apple-fbi-texas-shooter-iphone-unlock-encryption-debate
and
https://www.cnet.com/news/fbi-asked-apple-to-unlock-iphone-before-trying-all-its-options/
"Join us now and share the software, you'll be free hakors, you'll beee freeeeeee..."
Don't post this on youtube.
The end is nigh.
Yes I do, but no I can't cite a source. Believe me it has been done and will happen again.
@AuroraZ I appreciate your candidness! I hope you understand tho, that i can't just take your word for it. The way I see it, this would have been a big, big deal and would've been easy to find a source to (hell, I would've probably already heard about it). But I'm open to the possibility - there is after all a lot of shit happening behind the scenes
You are very mistaken and/or just making stuff up. Apple immediately gave up the iCloud data as they always do. Always (they say when given a warrant).
The fight was over Apple being forced to unlock the phone. In the end, what Apple said was going to take 30+ of their best engineers a couple of months was done by Greykey for something cheap, like $30k or less. Apple helped create an industry to unlock devices rather than warrant supplied government requests by themselves. This is far worse than if Apple cooperated.
Apple was looking to charge US government inflated Apple rates to do the work. Apple was putting on a big PR show. They don't like how they don't make money on legal information requests, the cost/markup is limited and doesn't have Apple margins.
Not sure if you are trying to pick a fight or not here, but I will not argue anymore about this.
word of advice though, do not trust anyone with data and you will live happier. I am out here.