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If you want private communication the first thing you need to do is stop using your smart phone for communication.

Really, I don't believe you have privacy unless you're on a Linux box, and not a standard one. Under Linux I can monitor ALL communication on the system. This means if somebody breaks in, I can detect it, if my box sends something out, I can detect it.

If my phone however decides to copy all keystrokes, log them, and then send them out as an encrypted packet, I can't detect that.

I'm seriously considering a linux phone. Big tech has become a convenient and effective vehicle for free speech suppressors, and parts of our country oddly supports censorship. Apple and Google use their app stores, and the presence of key apps, as a method of vendor lock in. Which makes their censorship all the more powerful, because its hard to leave them.

https://puri.sm
https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/

But the way things are going, I expect the commies to attack the payment processors as a way to reduce the number of customers for these phones. They'll use the same attack they always do - "raycists are using this product / service, so you must ban it, and refuse payment processing services to stores which retail them" or "domestic terrorists who need to hide their comms" The visa's and paypal's will oblige, making available payment methods scant.

Full blown tech censorship. They are colluding heavily.

Hircus says

I'm seriously considering a linux phone.

Same here, they are coming along nicely. It's possible to sandbox/VM android on one so I can use my business apps.

It's just. My current phone is so new and badass. So it'll be next year earliest.

just_passing_through says

Hircus says

I'm seriously considering a linux phone.

Same here, they are coming along nicely. It's possible to sandbox/VM android on one so I can use my business apps.

It's just. My current phone is so new and badass. So it'll be next year earliest.

I have a pinephone - for development.

Wait at least a year.

It's a computer that has phone capabilities, it's not a phone yet. It looks like a typical smart phone until you try to use it. A lot of work needs to be done with them. For example, if you click the Firefox icon, it's 3 seconds before you get a response - this is how Linux works on the desktop - you get an icon indicating it's being opened - Android is really the same, but you get the "feel" of it opening because a blank screen immediately opens up THEN you actually see Firefox.

I saw GLOWING reviews of my phone on youtube, it's bullshit. It's promising but this is a development system. You have to realize how it's working under the hood. You click an icon and it's like "WTF? Did I click it? Why is there no response?" because there are no immediate responses.

It acts like a computer, not a phone, and a low powered computer at that. It's the future, but the future isn't here yet. When the work is done, you have a true computer in your pocket.