From 70fc36a6e2765f2419f4ac36b012166193e0632d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Micay Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2020 05:16:55 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] reorder FAQ --- static/faq.html | 80 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------- 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-) diff --git a/static/faq.html b/static/faq.html index 4933c154..c63ed287 100644 --- a/static/faq.html +++ b/static/faq.html @@ -62,10 +62,10 @@ -

- What does GrapheneOS do about cellular tracking and - silent SMS? -

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GrapheneOS always considers the network to be hostile and does not implement weak - or useless mitigations. Therefore, it does not have the assorted gimmicks seen elsewhere - providing privacy/security theatre to make users feel better about these issues. One - of the core tenets of GrapheneOS is being honest with users and avoiding scams/frills - based around marketing rather than real world privacy/security threat models.

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Activating airplane mode will fully disable the cellular radio transmit and receive - capabilities, which will prevent your phone from being reached from the cellular - network and stop your carrier (and anyone impersonating them to you) from tracking the - device via the cellular radio. The baseband implements other functionality such as - Wi-Fi and GPS functionality, but each of these components is separately sandboxed on - the baseband and independent of each other. Enabling airplane mode disables the - cellular radio, but Wi-Fi can be re-enabled and used without activating the cellular - radio again. This allows using the device as a Wi-Fi only device.

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Even if interception of the connection or some other man-in-the-middle attack along - the network is not currently occurring, the network is still untrustworthy and - information should not be sent unencrypted. Legacy calls and texts should be avoided - as they're not secure and trust the carrier / network along with having weak security - against other parties. Trying to detect some forms of interception rather than dealing - with the root of the problem (unencrypted communications / data transfer) would be - foolish and doomed to failure.

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Receiving a silent SMS is not a good indicator of being targeted by your cell - carrier, police or government because anyone on the cell network can send - them including yourself. Cellular triangulation will happen regardless of whether - or not SMS texts are being sent or received by the phone. Even if an SMS did serve a - useful purpose for tracking, a silent SMS would be little different than receiving - unsolicited spam. In fact, sending spam would be stealthier since it wouldn't trigger - alerts for silent SMS but rather would be ignored with the rest of the spam. Regardless, - sending texts or other data is not required or particularly useful to track devices - connected to a network for an adversary with the appropriate access.

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Which DNS servers are used by default?