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diff --git a/static/faq.html b/static/faq.html index e9a2ea48..0766f8cd 100644 --- a/static/faq.html +++ b/static/faq.html @@ -328,12 +328,11 @@ silent SMS?</a> </h2> - <p>GrapheneOS always considers the network to be hostile. Merely getting a silent SMS is - not a good indicator of being targeted by your cell carrier, police or government - because <em>anyone on the cell network can send them</em>. Cellular triangulation will - happen regardless of whether or not SMS texts are being sent or received by the phone, - and they don't have to even be a silent SMS; it wouldn't be much different than - receiving an unsolicited spam SMS!</p> + <p>GrapheneOS always considers the network to be hostile and does not implement weak + or useless mitigations. Therefore, it does not have a 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.</p> <p>Activating airplane mode will fully disable the cellular radio transmit and receive capabilities, which will prevent your phone from being reached from the cellular @@ -344,6 +343,24 @@ 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.</p> + <p>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.</p> + + <p>Receiving a silent SMS is not a good indicator of being targeted by your cell + carrier, police or government because <em>anyone on the cell network can send + them</em> 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.</p> + </div> <footer> <a href="/"><img src="https://grapheneos.org/logo.png" width="512" height="512" alt=""/>GrapheneOS</a> |