Smartphones with Qualcomm chips were found to send private user information, including IP address, unique ID, mobile country code, back to the U.S. chipmaker, according to a report by the German security company Nitrokey first released on April 25.
This isn’t 100% accurate, but the case against the article (that only incredibly old devices do it over http, that there’s nothing identifying in there) glosses over the wildly variable amount of device unique data embedded in headers.
This isn’t 100% accurate, but the case against the article (that only incredibly old devices do it over http, that there’s nothing identifying in there) glosses over the wildly variable amount of device unique data embedded in headers.
Just hardware gps killswitch thoughts.