Experiment: Locking down my Android phone in the firewall, only allowing outgoing connections that I approve of. Let’s see how that goes. Even just looking at the log of attempted connections is scary. This thing is talking to everything all the time. Worse, there are some system apps that regularly query the device’s GPS location and you can’t turn that off … Shitty spy device. 🙄

(#pknsrda) @movq Yeah it's frightening how much our "devices" talk to "things", things we don't even know about or have any control over (_or very little_) 😳 I've been doing this for my personal Mac with Little Snitch, and I've blocked so much shit™ directly from my Mac. Quite happy with that. Not I just have to figure out how to do similar things for my iPhone 📱

(#pknsrda) @prologic > things we don't even know about or have any control over (_or very little_) That’s the thing: It’s not *apps* doing weird stuff, it’s the phone’s operating system itself. I can choose which apps to run and which permissions they have, that’s all fine, but what the fuck is “ImsApp” and why does it need access to GPS and my camera?! Completely untrustworthy.

(#pknsrda) @movq Yeap! I totally get it 🤣 It's the same as some macOS stuff that I found that "proxies" egress connections on behalf of other apps. I'm like wtf?! Get fucked 😅

(#pknsrda) @prologic Get fucked, indeed. 🫤

(#pknsrda) I wonder what Android does now that I’ve blocked all those connections. Will it queue all the data and just send it the next time it has an internet connection (which will happen sooner or later)? That would mean my blocking attempts are mostly pointless. 🥴 No way of telling what’s going on, it’s all encrypted …