McAfee Was Trying to Make a Secure Air-Gapped Device for the Masses, The US Didn't Like That

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PinePhone you're our only hope

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Honestly I would go back to the days of the old button phones, they were the shit back then and it was a great experience. A phone, for me, serves only communication purposes - SMS and calling, no more, but now it's unfortunately more than that, which includes surveillance.

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This is why we can't have nice things.

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I don't see the advantage of "air-gapped" communication.
Usually it is via the speaker and microphone. It is slow and meant to be used to hack networks that are disconnected from the main network.

Yet, it is easy to make a wire-less communication system with antennas.
If you use low frequency AM, if you transmit to the other side of the world.
With Software Defined Radio (SDR), you can even use whatever transmission you like.
I think that you can make a decent communication device using SDR and a Raspberry Pi.
Like one that changes frequency bands and digital encoding each few seconds.

I also see a future in an open WIFI communication system that redirects
signals to another antenna. That way you can mimic the cell-phone network an an area.
The Hong-kong protesters used it sometimes.