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DarkAri
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They run a mini Linux distro and you can ssh or tyy into them if you have a serial port. They have access to much of the hardware but usually over something like a serial interface but still can inject code and stuff. They are a completely secret self-contained computer and I don't even think they get updated for security. They could easily be hacked by anyone probably mostly government regimes. There is only a few companies that make them and they are ultra secretive and protective over them. This is the main reason it's nearly impossible to get an open source phone. Arm is proprietary, modems are proprietary. They run blobs. I have probably the one phone in existence that can run an open source modem firmware, and interestingly I have figured out that there is basically no security whatsoever on the cell networks. (Monopolies gonna monopoly) So that might be one reason they are so secretive about it, another reason is because they don't want citizens being able to just have open source radios that they can't easily hack or sell to drug cartels or something.
It does have complete access to your mic and Bluetooth and other stuff since they share buses, it has access to all your data being sent. It can record phone calls. It can triangulate your position. It can even imitate other modems to pick up people's messages and calls, which means not only can it spy on you but also it can spy on other people around you. I don't think it's really possible to disable these things completely outside of physically cutting power. They boot up with the phone and can probably run even when the phone is powered off since it's a self contained system, often with a direct connection to the battery.
Between Bluetooth, and cellular modems, they have basically complete access to many bands around you, as well as sensor data and sound and video, and with satellites recording the entire planet, they can trace anyone who doesn't have a device back in time anyways. Cell towers can triangulate you as well and do. It's part of location services in all phones now. The modems can connect to almost any towers at least for "emergency purposes".
Basically the only place that's safe now is inside your own head but even that's becoming unsafe because of AI that can read your facial expressions and infer your mental state.
The ways they get around the legalities is originally with the eyes programs, where countries would spy on their allies citizens to escape domestic laws like those pesky constitutions, but nowadays they just literally sell everyone's personal data to the highest bidder, international or domestic. The CCP can buy this I do just as easily as Black Rock can, not that Black Rock is or every was an American company. These are international corporations that exist outside of the idea of a state.
It's also not the CIA or NSA spying on you, but private companies. Even the people in the CIA and NSA aren't allowed to know about the extent of the true intelligence apparatus which is completely secret, outside the law, and contained entirely in international corporations. The entire Internet has been saturated with bots since 2001 or something probably. The internet is just a massive psyop and propaganda program. The average person in the 90s would be horrified at the opinions of common people today. Nukes are also probably not real. Just a way to scare people into believing Russia and America and China are actually enemies while they partial up and nationalist culture that doesn't want to give all its resources up to the international secret world management and finance corporation. Fiat currency too is a giant scam to make sure the working person never acquires wealth, and has to work forever, and corporations and wealthy humans who's names will never be spoken publicly, can own anything and have unlimited leverage and I finite money without ever having to work or produce anything of value. The text books in nearly every school in America are made by a company in Israel who was co-founded by glisten Maxwell's father. The left in U.S politics is fake, and the whole social justice warrior movement was a clever psyop to push all the countries further right wing run by internationalist corporations btw. 25% of Americans are addicted to legal amphetamines, more on other drugs like weed which reduces people's ability to understand what's real, Md nearly half of working age people in America cannot or won't find work. Wages have been dropping for decades and now IQs are dropping. Most of human genetics have been completely ruined, as we as humanity has destroyed nearly every honest, principled and empathetic human on the planet for profit.
Whether you are even capable of learning stuff depends entirely on your genetics and epigendtics. Only a few students in any one area will ever retain much knowledge. The thing that actually determines how well your society becomes, tends to be things like how happy the childhood of your citizens are. Very few people ever seek knowledge long term within a healthy lifestyle. School for most kids is just a way to babysit them while the parents work long shifts for corporations.
The tragedy is the kids in south korea hardly get a childhood at all. They stay in ultra competative schools during the day, only to be shuttled off to cram schools in the evening. They are not even human beings in the eyes of their own parents. They exist soley to fullfill the dreams of their parents, which is to hopefully work hard enough to become some executive for one of the seveal corporations that almost completly own the South Korean Economy.
Many of these kids, like many in South Korea will grow up to be massivly depressed alchoholics and workaholics. Never having much of a life beyond serving their managers. This comes out in several ways in the character of Koreans. Many of them are incredibly dark people. Thats why media like the squid games is so popular over there. Behind the venure of a very productive and industrious society where most forgo almost all of their individuality, never even having a childhood. Behind it lies so many incredibly dark and deeply depressed people traped within a virtual prison of wealth and status.
People like this would maybe end up ruling the world, given they work so much, and so hard, yet with their childhood also dies their soul. Their creativity dies, their dreams die, their human spirit is deminished in the hell they create and call progress. The parts of their dna that make them human, slowly whither away under hyper corporatism. Just like everything else in their society a child is nothing more then property. An investment by corporations. A robot that is as equally bland as it is numb. Never does anyone in a society like that actually consider that maybe they dont have a right to dictate every little aspect of their childs life in order to promote what they believe a child should be. So those that feel, those that see deeply the lights in the city nights. Those that see beauty. They die away as the human race regresses day by day.
South Korea has always been a deeply disturbing place to me. A place that is truely inhumane, yet such a beautiful place as well. Behind every woman who looks likes a flight attendent, and every man wearing a suit or dress clothes, is a society which has almost no creativity and soul. No individualism. No happiness. No relationships. Everything is about efficency, everything is about materialism. All the money in the world doesnt matter if you don't get to fall in love with someone, and have dreams, and watch your kids play and be happy. What is even the point of life it is nothing but work, followed by a few hours a drinking before crashing out for the night, and starting it all over again?
In theory never, in practice, after you have kids. Many people do it after having kids but they have amazing time management skills like my ex.