Niche product, niche price, nice intentions, sure. But if they were going to go for a niche market, they really should have leaned into it.
Things like a headphone jack, removable battery, and not-gigantic display aren’t unrealistic beauty standards. They were perfected over a decade ago and still relevant among sub-300 phones from small-time manufacturers.
Also, the modem is the big unauditable black-box component that should have been the subject of the hardware kill switch.
What exactly does the Hardware killswitch do? I have yet to find an actual explanation.
– A hardware kill switch; disconnected completely the microphone and cameras at the circuit level, leaving nothing open for intrusion.
– A software-based switch, to easily turn off all your radio signals, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and NFC.I feel like it should be reversed? Id be less concerned about camera/microphone if i knew with 100% certainty no data was leaking from the phone (hardware switch for antennae).
It seems like it’d be relatively simple for a bad actor to record something and just… wait until you had a data connection though wouldn’t it? Seems like it’d be more secure to just keep there from being any data to send rather than relying on a bad actor not being able to send it. Am I missing something here?
I’d want a hw kill switch for the modem/receivers so that I can take it with me to protests.
That is a point, could someone even do that on something classed as a phone though? Don’t most places have some kind of law about these devices always being able to reach emergency services like 911?
It’s mandated that the service be available without charge (no SIM needed), but I don’t think there’s any regulations on the user disabling cell access themselves.
From the product page:
A hardware kill switch; disconnected completely the microphone and cameras at the circuit level, leaving nothing open for intrusion.
