While I have enjoyed being unemployed and not having a smartphone for the past 9 years, arising circumstances mean I must get one. I have done some short research, as I have NO experience whatsoever in anything phones, and I believe a Sony phone with SailfishOS. Beyond this I don't know much, I'd like dnscrypt-proxy and other such programs (probably some phone only ones exist) to maximizeencryption.If there's anyone that has a phone setup with maximized privacy and encryption (might sound dumb) then spoonfeeding would be muchappreciated. All I really need this for contacts and code scanning pretty much. Thanks.
>>109019679wrong board >>>/a/
All phones made in the past 7 years or so have full-disk encryption on by default, and both major OS vendors have had encrypted DNS supported with little user effort required for a similar time period. The rest of your traffic will be happily secured with TLS except what little traffic actually makes up the phone part of the phone; modern networks use UDP. The most private and secure smartphone that will actually work is basically a tie between an iPhone and a Pixel. I wouldn't recommend the Pixel since it has PWM dimming. Just buy an iPhone, you'll never have to worry about how bad the keyboard is if you never owned an Android to compare it to. Otherwise, it sounds like you really want more of a computer in the form factor of a phone, so get a OnePlus or Sony and put LineageOS on it, but be aware a lot of apps won't work. And nowadays any app that won't work will similarly not fully work as a web app, since they've gotten wise. So, basically, buy an iPhone.
pixel of your choice + graphene os>>109019742retarded newfag
if you've been unemployed and without a smartphone for a decade you are probably mentally unwell, so i want you to really consider that your mental issues are what is causing you to believe you need to privacymaxx on a phone you barely intend to use.take your meds and buy whatever cheap android phone meets your minimum hardware requirements.
>>109019679Be careful when scrolling through infinite-scroll-formatted media. You can lose hours or even days enslaved to your phone
>>109019679>first timeI can tell you don't have any friends. What a loser.
>>109019745iphones have pwm dimming you dont know what the fuck youre talking about>>109019748this is the way
>>109020124Reddit is that-a way
https://www.fossify.org/apps/The contacts app has an additional storage that only it and the SMS and the phone app can read. >>109019748>pixel of your choice + graphene osI use this, and also /e/os
>>109023201>/e/osecchi os?
>>109019742Wrong site >>>/r/eddit
>>109019679First of all, don't, really, smartphones killed the west unironically.You're gonna have a better experience moving to north korea as a dissident than owning a smartphone, if you go for anything other than explained below you're life is basically over once you're on the control grid.If you are gonna get a phone yes Sailfish or anything thats not iOS or Android is the best you can do where you're not going to be raped for the rest of your life and get some functionality. I assume you maybe have an old keypad phone or iPod or something similar or at least are familiar with them, Sailfish or like mobile Linux is the modern equivalent, those operating systems are fine to use.If you must use Android (you don't) get the cheapest used pixel (never give google money) and put graphene on it, its secure but Android is an unusable piece of shit again you really don't want to use it unless you have to, which you don't. 99.9999999% of all modern phone software (Android and iOS) is malware north korea wishes they had the tech to make and never install any proprietary software.Graphene tries to protect you but retards are gonna retard, if you install anything that anyone tells you unless its fully FOSS and offline congrats, you've got a backdoor all governments and data corporations can spy on you through.Play services is the most well widespread Android malware that all Android phones are preloaded with (factory OS, this is why you install Graphene which is the only reasonably secure Android based system), it collects absolutely everything you do on the phone and everything you do IRL, if you're actually coming from nothing or something ancient, I don't even know how I would begin to explain how bad it is, you wouldn't understand and be glad for that.You are among the rare few to remain human, you can stay that way.TLDR: Get something over 10 years old or Sailfish/Linux. Graphene is the worst you should go for.
>>109019679Jfc how do I unsubscribe from your fucking blog Prakash?
>>109020265>iphones have pwm dimmingmaybe some of them do, i'm not goinhg to check, but the newest ones do not.
>>109019745Apple and G**gle are what I want my phone protected FROM, cell towers too if possible. Though I believe you that it's all encrypted, but I see the manufacturers and towers as a bigger threat than some random hacker or any website I might visit. >>109019979Trust me, this is impossible. I will likely never use the phone for entertainment unless I have to sit in a waiting room and I forgot to bring a book, at which point I will probably play whatever one game I found interesting and installed.>>109025696I agree with pretty much your whole post. Only thing is that I sadly do require a phone because what I'll be doing needs me to have some "app" to open doors I think, probably with a qr code. This is (as I know so far) the only thing I need the phone for, but this app scares me the most since I'm not entirely sure if there will be a way to run it safely or if it will even work on whatever OS I use, forcing me to get a worse option. If there is a way to create a controlled environment to run stuff like this in then I could breathe easier. In the likely case I have to get mobile data, I would also like to know if there is a way to make any activity unreadable to proprietary towers and wifi networks too, this is what I actually wanted encryption for in >>109019679. Probably the last thing is that if there is a way to completely neuter/disable firmware spying in phones, please direct me to a guide. Any and all backdoors removed, getting the phone equivalent of coreboot, and essentially making this thing completely neutered and owned by me is a wet dream of mine but I think it will only stay just that.
>>109026311>cell towers too if possibleit's a phone you sterile freak. don't buy one if you don't want it to phone.
>>109019679u never owned a phone or u still using those boomer ones? either underage or giga unc bruh u cooked
>>109026311Yeah thats what I was wondering from your post I was assuming you're coming from nothing/iPod and that you just need a phone number to fill a job application since if you're considering Sailfish you're probably aware that its not going to have botnet apps.Do ask if there is absolutely no way you could get an NFC card or whatever to get the doors. If not, depends, you should tell the name if you know it because it can range from complete botnet tier to something thats probably acceptable and could function on the Android emulation layer of Sailfish OS. If thats the only hard requirement you have Sailfish should still be investigated than just going straight to graphene, there are so many buckbroken people who defend android despite it being insanely bad today, yes graphene solves the spying but not all the other just core anti-user design of modern android.For phone services as you know its inherently insecure and basically public, the only way to avoid that is to not use it, its all very locked down, there are even laws around it which basically kill all motivation for any open source solutions.The only thing you can really do is always use airplane mode to turn off the radio when unused, the firmware on every modem is proprietary and unchangeable , some carriers even have whitelisting system to block things like old/Linux/etc phones to prevent any possible tampering attempts.For internet you can use VPN/Tor to protect the traffic, that aside you can't do anything about the backend of the phone network.WiFi is better if you control that network compared to cellular, if you only need occasional calls/SMS, you can also use a VOIP number than real phone service.Honestly you're already doing very well, better than 99.9999%, look at all the jealous people here shitting on you. Really happy to at least encounter someone with a brain, its so demoralizing even on here seeing all the drones shill for our horrible dystopia.
>>109019679I'm curious, OP. How have you've been using a bank without a smartphone all these years? I know it's not impossible, but most banks will try hard to make you use their app. I'd like to know how you've managed so far.
>>109026483My bank never pushed using their app at any point. I still use it though, you never know when some random unexpected charge might hit, and I'd rather be apprised of where I'm at on a regular basis than risk overdrafting because I only get my balance mailed to me monthly.
>>109019745sad but true
>>109026422I checked the website and the only options for download it offers are apple and play store. I think the software is owned by the place I'm going to, which probably diminishes the chance of finding a solution with emulation. As far as physical cards, I heard this specific place issued their last one several years ago, there is an support email but I doubt they would offer any help. I would say the specific place I'm talking about but its very local and I would pretty much dox myself in the process. [spoiler]Though I might say it if it becomes necessary later on.[/spoiler]I'm hoping to be able to use dnscrypt-proxy, unbound, and/or anything similar on sailfish. I've heard of samloader (even though it's for samsung), magisk, revanced, though I'm not entirely sure what they do and if they can be used in my situation. >>109026483It's easy if you crash with your parents.
>>109026836(Why is ctrl+s still a function if the spoiler with it doesn't even work?)
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>>109026516That's fair. When I was researching what banks I could use, I *thought* I had found one that wouldn't force me use their app. Only after creating an account I realized I was wrong, and now I'm too lazy to move to a different one. Maybe I'll do it some day.>>109026836>It's easy if you crash with your parentsFair.
>>109019679Get a Pixel (used if you don't want to give Jewgle money) and install GrapheneOS.
>>109026836You use aurora or a site like apkpure to install things from Play without actually using it, that works for 99% of things, it just depends if the devs choose to have the Play DRM ("Integrity") or try to block custom ROMs. If thats the case the best way to go is Graphene since it can at least isolate googles shit.You can search this db t osee if people already tested it on some kind of degoogled OS https://plexus.techlore.tech/
>>109026258Yall niggas are dumb, i have a 17 pro max
>>109030763forgot pic
I feel so bad sometimes
>>109031215All the time really but at some point its like my face burns
>>109019679There is no such thing as a botnet-free mobile phone. No matter which apps, which OS, GPS tracking is always active. This applies to dumbphones as well. Privacy-wise, the best thing to do is not owning a mobile phone at all.If you must, the best you can do is installing a FOSS ROM such as LineageOS on a supported phone and using FOSS apps as much as possible. While it won't completely eliminate the botnet, it will greatly reduce it.
>>109019979I always find it funny how the most vocal smartphone haters are also the most hopelessly addicted to doomscrolling.
>>109030626If your phone has stock Android, Aurora literally just works. I have never once needed a Google account.However, Aurora has issues with chink ROMs such as MIUI. Yet another reason to avoid them.
