the perfect showcase about the security guarantees of E2EE. It’s important, but it won’t save you if “your” phone is programmed to snitch on you. same thing applies to screen reader AIs, and whatever you grant accessibility permissions or the assistant app role.
fun fact: on most googled phones the google assistant app is by default, without approval, set as the assistant app, and it has access to screen contents. I don’t know if it has that access all the time, maybe only when you are baited to open it by long pressing the home button or trying to turn off your phone with the power button.
Another thing i found is that green dot does not indicate that microphone is being used. If microphone permission is enabled in system settings, google assistant will have a constant access to microphone, without showing green dot. And even if on pixel microphone permission can be disabled, on most other phones, there is no a system setting to do that. I dont know if its just a toggle which was removed, or a feature entirely, but it does no tchange the fact that on that phones, microphone is accessed at all time.
the perfect showcase about the security guarantees of E2EE. It’s important, but it won’t save you if “your” phone is programmed to snitch on you. same thing applies to screen reader AIs, and whatever you grant accessibility permissions or the assistant app role.
fun fact: on most googled phones the google assistant app is by default, without approval, set as the assistant app, and it has access to screen contents. I don’t know if it has that access all the time, maybe only when you are baited to open it by long pressing the home button or trying to turn off your phone with the power button.
Another thing i found is that green dot does not indicate that microphone is being used. If microphone permission is enabled in system settings, google assistant will have a constant access to microphone, without showing green dot. And even if on pixel microphone permission can be disabled, on most other phones, there is no a system setting to do that. I dont know if its just a toggle which was removed, or a feature entirely, but it does no tchange the fact that on that phones, microphone is accessed at all time.