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About privacy and mobile devices

- do not use smartphone :-)

- if you use smartphone, do not enable location service by default

- and do not store credit card information on smartphone

- and use it with encrypted storage

- and use strong authentication

- if you use smartphone, do not user social media :-) (except #nostr)

- if you use social media, do not use centralized, especially multi company owned social media (this is why we use #nostr)

- do not share real email address

- and do not share real mobile number

- never use or share real name

- never share any information that could identify your real identity

- do not share photos, videos, about yourself, your family

- do not share infos about your home location, enterieurs, real workplace, etc.

- do not use any apps on your mobile that takes infos about you

- do not use any services that can build your profile

- use only trusted (and probably FOSS) apps

- do not use mobile phone that is bounded to a telco service provider

- do not use mobile phone that bounds you to the mobile manufacturer, and/or operating system provider and/or application developer

- do not use wearable devices, smartwatches, that can share infos about you through mobile phone, even directly

- do not use cloud services

- do not syncronize phones with another devices using clouds

- do not connect to a passwordless wifi

- don't trust anyone or anything that you haven't personally verified before

Conclusion:

- nowadays it is nearly impossible to follow all the rules above

- don't be lazy and don't believe anyone who tries to sell you all this as a "convenience" service

--- So reduce your digital footprint as much as you can! ---

#privacy #mobile #smartphone #security #trust #grownostr #plebchain #notrians #nostriches #nostr #zap
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ヾ(｡ꏿ﹏ꏿ)ﾉﾞ 2y ago

GrapheneOS is a good option for a lot of things you enumerated

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ᴄʏʙᴇʀɢᴜʏ 👽 2y ago

Yes, I've talked to the developers about GrapheneOS. Unfortunately I don't have Pixel phone, the only one that GrapheneOS supports. It is intentional, because of some features of Pixel.

I use LineageOS, but if you want you can use crDroid, Arrowos, and if still exist e.g.: AISP, ParanoidAndroid, and so on. All of them devived to the CyanogenMod, the first naked AOSP based custom rom.

Or you can use the simple AOSP if you have enough time to build it to your phone.

On the other hand you can use some kind of Linux (anno there was e.g. UbuntuTouch)

Unfortunately Apple is a closed system and your only chance to escape is a "jailbreak"-ed iPhone (i haven't use iPhone for a long time, so I don't know if it is the correct name when you can access the core of the iOS). It is similar to "rooting" the Android