<story><title>A review of the Blackphone, the Android for the paranoid</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/06/exclusive-a-review-of-the-blackphone-the-android-for-the-paranoid/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Tepix</author><text>Why does the blackphone lack a physical switch for&lt;p&gt;* the microphone&lt;p&gt;* the GPS chip (or if not possible, the GPS antenna)&lt;p&gt;* the GSM chip (or if not possible, the GSM antennae)&lt;p&gt;* the camera(s)&lt;p&gt;I have talked to the Silent Circle people at MWC in barcelona and they acknowledged the current security issue with the closed source, black box baseband. This first blackphone is of course just a first step.&lt;p&gt;However, physical switches could help against certain attack scenarios.</text></comment>
<story><title>A review of the Blackphone, the Android for the paranoid</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/06/exclusive-a-review-of-the-blackphone-the-android-for-the-paranoid/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Sephr</author><text>This has a closed source baseband that was also not designed by the company producing the phone. The baseband is pretty much guaranteed to be backdoored by your favorite state security agency, so why get this over any other Android phone?</text></comment>