Comments by "Matthew Nirenberg" (@matthewnirenberg) on "End-to-End Encryption Will Be a Historical Footnote!" video.

@robbraxmantech They can't as the One Time Pad would be offline as would the encryption and decryption if I understand the above comment correctly. OTP's are still unbreakable since their development and are still used by numbers stations. From what I understand from watching your video, I would go as far as saying that the OS isn't the threat, the threat is also the firmware on the CPU and or in the other controllers. Given that people have been editing, compiling and installing their own versions of Android for over a decade, I would assume that the govts have implemented their methods in a way that can't be removed or bypassed. The only solution seems to be to have custom hardware that is known to not be tampered with. I fear we've reached dystopia already.
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@SuperCulverin Never said they weren't a PITA, just tried to clarify to @robbraxmantech what the original comment was trying to say (that manual OTP not digital OTP was the suggestion). The problem with using something else is without being a licenced Ham, there isn't much available. In countries such as Australia LoRa is heavily regulated as the ACMA regulate the technologies used, the output wattage, frequencies and the overall range (so even low power long range is regulated). LoRa also isn't legal in Australia unless you want range limited to that of a home router as the US modules are illegal because the ACMA are tyrannical and dictate everything.
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Nope, you would also need hardware that doesn't permit such scanning. Mark my words, I guarantee there's a hidden chip or hidden firmware that scans regardless of the OS. The govt knows that people have been editing, compiling and installing Android for the last decade, I guarantee they've worked out how to work around changing the OS.
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The issue is that the scanning is likely done at the firmware level and most likely the hardware level as well. In such a case then the OS doesn't matter as the hardware is the problem.
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@terrydaktyllus1320 That's what I'm saying - its already in place. Its very likely that any phone that's made within the last 6yrs has the hardware already in place, and the few that don't, have firmware that can perform such scanning at the CPU and RAM level. Its very easy to have a function in firmware that looks for a value that when set in bios / bootloader, activates other functionality. Its easy to have in place and activate via an update at a later time. Govts only try to legitimise doing anything after they've been doing it, the old "its better to ask for forgiveness than permission".
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@mrtuk4282 that's true to an extent. There is other firmware though that exists within the CPU and memory controllers that can access the transmitters and transmit. It's quite scary just how much can be done from the right firmware at the right level.
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