The "not worth it for companies to make one" argument doesn't make sense
It's the same thing as other devices they sell, just cheaper to make because some parts aren't used
There's plenty of demand from people who care about privacy, and meanwhile many niche devices are made for tiny numbers of people
One person removing the speakers from their phone only creates an anonymity set of 1, and the phone will have had time to collect data before the parts were removed - DIY is useless here, the point is to have a device on the market without these parts, to create an anonymity set
We don't have enough of a backbone to stop buying phones with built-in cameras and microphones
And you're suggesting we don't even have enough of a backbone to buy something without those parts, making it worthless for those companies - that's even further from us having a backbone
Big companies care about the majority which brings them big profit. For smaller companies, though, it's more adventageous to go after small niches.
If you think a lot of privacy conscious people wpuld buy a phone with no microphone or speakers (i'm guessing you're planning to connect those via USB before calling someone viavoice?) you might be able to start a business providing phones like that for your niche.
I use GrapheneOS which lets you disable your microphone and camera in the OS. Then when I make or get a call or pull up the camera app it asks me if I want to unblock the speaker/camera and all Ihave to do is click yes. ThennI temd to disable it again. Same with GPS
So if you can't find a device with the jardware missing or disabled you could try that. Yes, yoy do have to trust that when you click "disable" itbactually does get disabled, but then you'd have to trust the manufacturer when buying the missing hardware device too (unless you know how to open it up and check the hardware yourself, but then you would probably be able to remove the hardware yourself.
I think Graphene is better than nothing.
3.5mm would be easier than USB generally
But I can't start a business selling phones because the authorities will make me pay them to bomb kids if I'm successful - or if I move somewhere they can't make me pay them, they'll just kill me instead
Americans haven't had the backbone to stop our fellow countrymen from bombing kids, we haven't even had the backbone to stop them from forcing us to pay taxes, we haven't even had the backbone to demand devices that don't spy on us so much the people who are allowed to make all the phones they want and avoid taxes
Graphene is better than nothing - but the main benefit of it is just making parallel construction harder. I think the phone still reports everything you do, but sometimes that info can't be released or used in a courtroom because it would draw too much attention to how there was no way to get that info without the phone spying
Yeah, the majority would sell their soul for a shiny new gadget or app. You could always sell under the table on the dark net for sats (j/k. Not an endorsement of doing crimes. Crimes bad, don't do them 😒) But, speaking of dark net, you might be able to find something like that on there. Lots of criminals out there paranoid that fbi might hack them to bust them for selling drugs or whatever. So phones like that might be a common comodity over there, idk.
A much better and safer approach would be to buy a cheap phone, find someone in your area who repairs phones, bring it to them and ask them to modify it for you. If they know how to repair phones, they guaranteed know how to take parts out.
Or you could learn to do it yourself. Just practice on junk phones first or it'll turn into an even more expensive endavour.
None of those options help. Scaled production is needed to create an anonymity set
Good luck. Let me know if you come up with something and want me to boost the post to help out the effort or whatever.
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