that could still be a concern depending on what services you might be running and exposing. a known unpatched vuln on an old cpu could be the key on the exploit chain for a possible attacker.
regular joe kind of target and such so obviously talking about an unlikely scenario already.
i’d worry about unpatched cpu vulns depending on how old it is though.
iirc they only sell in the us canada and europe, but i might be mistaken.
it does, and i do. but let’s not pretend it is meaningful or legitimate at all.
they don’t sell here, so i rely on luck somewhat to find specific models in the used market from someone that paid the big price to import it. and usually people want to get their money’s worth so they are mostly all chewed up, very old and deprecated, or unaffordable.
i debate investing on an old pixel to get a more private phone every time i need a new one, but so far always decided it’s not worth the amount of money or hassle they want for them. i keep hoping for other manufacturers to adopt the more thorough pixel security, or for graphene to relax it’s requirements a bit.
i quickly looked it up and found used 9s, and it’s about 5k.
could probably find better prices for a working one, but there won’t be any miracles.
also found a 7 pro with a broken screen for 2k, kind of a steal for how much these go for tbh
but still, it’s a broken phone for 2k and i don’t think these screens are cheap either.
all while asking themselves what to do. it would be hilarious if it weren’t tragic.
and did it work? i mean when the literal nazis in power can outvote any resistance, it just means something has been very wrong for very long, and we shouldn’t waste our time.
pixels cost as much as an actually good used car here.
180 euro is basically minimum wage here. none of the phones you mentioned are affordable at all.
edit: just noticed it says 130 not 180, but still.
i’m not sure what the problem is, but they are crazy expensive and hard to find in south america, and probably many other places.
i don’t live on sweden though.
fighting the entire global politico-economic system is probably harder than a few techbros. so pessimism i guess…?
no.
the only bad thing about graphene is that it needs an expensive pixel. and how they are mostly unobtanium.
i should be able to surveil the politicians that passed this then, right?
and the chinese has been stealing back tech from you for decades this exact way, but you don’t mind them working for you.
maybe if they weren’t santioned from hell and back.
see, this is why we say voting won’t solve your problems. don’t hate the messenger.
you could use rethinking instead of blaming russians or tankies or whatever.
so? does working a job == espionage because it’s north korea? i don’t think they have ever gone at war or any kind of open conflict with western countries at all recently excluding the thing with south korea and the us not liking their existence…?
why are their workers totally all spies as opposed to say, chinese ones, which might even have a stronger interest in keeping an eye on the west? you don’t seem to have much issue with them.
as i said to me, it sounds like weasel language to smear this specific country for trying to get around the sanctions imposed on them.
working a job is not infiltration.
i’m talking about services you might want to expose, which might have rce vulnerabilities. i edited my post for slight clarification but i think you replied before i had the chance, so i’m doing it here.
many people do end up hosting other services at home besides just the bare router when they get sufficient “tinker” hardware, which seem to be the case.
either way it’s indeed not something one should worry too much about in op’s case atm, if just to understand what one can expect from older hardware or the limits of what you can get away with.