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Would be nice if it had a hardware kill switch for other sensors (especially MEMS-based) such as accelerometer:

Edit: It does. Nice.

https://crypto.stanford.edu/gyrophone/files/gyromic.pdf

https://www.analog.com/en/analog-dialogue/articles/mems-acce...

https://dl.packetstormsecurity.net/papers/general/traynor-cc...

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It says in this post that the IMU is killed when all 3 other skill switches are off

Wow, I totally skipped over that. Wasn't familiar enough with the acronym. Very nice.

Kill switches are just an addendum if you don't trust the software. Of course the OS can also prevent apps from accessing parts of the phones like the accelerometer if the user configures it that way.

there's always bugs in software even if you trust the developers...

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