While a great feature, that's not a hardware cutoff, that's a software cutoff. But, still, my software cutoff is turned off for both camera and for microphone. Great feature.

Graphene OS is great. I'm glad to hear that you have it. However, that is not a hardware cutoff, and graphene OS does not rewrite the firmware on chips that are deeply embedded into the physical hardware networks of the mic and GPS. Only a physical cutoff to these two systems can hope to stop illicit telemetry and recording.

I'm not trying to poopoo everyone robbing Google and MS and Apple and LG and Roku and every corp of their revenue streams. Fuck the corps!

The vibe of posts like these though is usually one of removing tracking and spying, not revenue streams. So I think it's important to remind everyone how deep they will have to go to genuinely limit their attack surface.

That's a software one