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A phone which does not spy on you


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2018 Aug 19, 10:49am   47,341 views  305 comments

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https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/

Librem 5, the phone that focuses on security by design and privacy protection by default. Running Free/Libre and Open Source software and a GNU+Linux Operating System designed to create an open development utopia, rather than the walled gardens from all other phone providers.

A fully standards-based freedom-oriented system, based on Debian and many other upstream projects, has never been done before–we will be the first to seriously attempt this.

The Librem 5 phone will be the world’s first ever IP-native mobile handset, using end-to-end encrypted decentralized communication.


Many others have attempted Open Source phones and failed. I hope this one works, especially since I just discovered that you cannot turn off wifi or Bluetooth on Android or iOS. "Turning it off" in the controls on those phones merely disconnects you from current access points, but leaves them on so they can spy on your location with great precision and open you up to various exploits:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/21/ios-11-apple-toggling-wifi-bluetooth-control-centre-doesnt-turn-them-off

On iOS 11, pressing the wifi toggle immediately disconnects the iPhone or iPad from any wifi networks, but leaves the wireless radio available for use by location services, scanning for the names of nearby wifi access points. The Bluetooth toggle operates in a similar fashion. ...

A similar thing happens in Android smartphones, which use wifi as part of their location services. Switching wifi off prevents it from connecting to wifi access points, but allows it to continue periodically scanning for access point names to help pinpoint its location.




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123   Blue   2022 Nov 1, 1:47pm  

Patrick says

https://reclaimthenet.org/india-5g-surveillance/



India’s PM says 5G rollout will help boost the use of surveillance
Facial recognition, automatic number plate recognition tech, and drones.


That is 5% of usage case, rest is in the hands of the commi bureaucrats whose aim is only to looting and blackmailing public.
124   Booger   2022 Nov 25, 2:39pm  

Elon Musk is contemplating a phone that does not spy on you.

https://twitter.com/Liz_Wheeler/status/1596222793388945408
125   richwicks   2022 Nov 25, 2:56pm  

Patrick says

NEW YORK, NY — Pfizer has announced the launch of a new breakthrough treatment for depression, Thorovil, a pharmaceutical that consists of a heavy metal head mounted at a right angle at the end of a handle. Patients prescribed Thorovil can use the object to smash their cell phones into tiny pieces, instantly curing all depression.


I have a cell phone, but I can't say it depresses me at all. Also, this is the only thing I use that would be something like "a social network".
126   fdhfoiehfeoi   2022 Nov 25, 7:56pm  

Because the car already does all the spying he needs?
128   GNL   2022 Nov 26, 6:29am  

The temptation to control via technology is too great.

129   Patrick   2022 Nov 29, 10:39am  


@JackPosobiec
4h
Shanghai police are grabbing phones to search citizens for ties to the protests
130   HeadSet   2022 Nov 29, 3:28pm  

Patrick says


JackPosobiec
4h
Shanghai police are grabbing phones to search citizens for ties to the protests


They learned from the FBI and the J6 protests.
131   Patrick   2022 Nov 29, 3:30pm  

It's encouraging that the police even need to grab phones at all.

In the worst of all possible worlds, the phone will simply be constantly reporting your location, web usage, and all your calls and texts to the CCP/FBI at all times so they won't need to grab your phone. They will just use your phone to convict you without trial, go to where you are at the moment, and kill you.
132   Patrick   2022 Nov 29, 9:44pm  

https://gettr.com/comment/c1lev8f5117

WEF and their Global Leaders are trying to enforce digital IDs and CBDCs all over the world. Bill Gates has spent billions promoting it. Once they get that, there will be no fr
feedom for anyone anywhere.


133   AmericanKulak   2022 Nov 29, 11:39pm  

Apple issued an "Update" to Airdrop a few days ago, just before the Crackdown, only in China. Chinese iphone Users are unable to send pics/communicate with Airdrop.

https://qz.com/apple-airdrop-china-protest-tool-1849824435
134   Hircus   2022 Nov 30, 10:15am  

US companies like apple dont seem likely to put their revenue at risk to stand up for what's right. At least not w/ chyna. Lately they seem to be happy to promote rainbow crap, but it's possible its because dems are able to twist their arm easily into political crap like opposing the elonification of twitter.

One of these days im gonna join an open source project for mesh networking. A free populace needs it. The chinese need it right now. The app stores as a filter for WrongThinkSoftware will always be a problem though.
136   PeopleUnited   2022 Dec 9, 4:39am  

Yeah, phones and all the other ways you log in and are connected means the analytics people know details of your life you are not even aware of. But the next level is going to be digital ID, digital currencies and most likely loss of liberty and/or assets for those who don’t please the globalist overlord dictatorship.
138   Eric Holder   2022 Dec 21, 11:28am  

PeopleUnited says

Yeah, phones and all the other ways you log in and are connected means the analytics people know details of your life you are not even aware of. But the next level is going to be digital ID, digital currencies and most likely loss of liberty and/or assets for those who don’t please the globalist overlord dictatorship.


The Moscow Metro on Friday rolled out what authorities have touted as the world’s first fare payment system based on facial recognition technology.

The cashless, cardless and phone-less system, called “Face Pay,” has been fitted at special turnstiles across the Russian capital’s more than 240 metro stations.

“To enter the metro, passengers won’t need a card or a smartphone — just look at the camera on the turnstile,” said Maxim Liksutov, deputy mayor in charge of transport.

“You won’t need to touch your smartphone or any other surfaces,” Liksutov added, referencing rising concerns about the spread of the coronavirus in the capital amid Russia’s record-setting daily case and death numbers, low vaccination rates and lax enforcement of mask-wearing rules.


https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/10/15/moscow-metro-introduces-worlds-first-pay-by-face-system-a75300
139   HeadSet   2022 Dec 21, 2:28pm  

Eric Holder says

The Moscow Metro on Friday rolled out what authorities have touted as the world’s first fare payment system based on facial recognition technology.

If I need to ride such a Metro, I will wear a rubber Joe Biden mask so he can pick up the tab.
140   Eric Holder   2022 Dec 21, 2:31pm  

HeadSet says

Eric Holder says


The Moscow Metro on Friday rolled out what authorities have touted as the world’s first fare payment system based on facial recognition technology.

If I need to ride such a Metro, I will wear a rubber Joe Biden mask so he can pick up the tab.


I doubt he's in the system and/or his accounts are accesible to the gubmint there.
141   HeadSet   2022 Dec 21, 4:05pm  

Eric Holder says

I doubt he's in the system and/or his accounts are accesible to the gubmint there.

OK, so I will wear an Eric Holder mask.
142   Patrick   2023 Jan 2, 8:30pm  

https://slaynews.com/news/bidens-infrastructure-bill-installs-kill-switches-all-new-vehicles/


Buried in Democrat President Joe Biden’s recently passed “infrastructure” bill is a law that mandates the installation of remotely-accessed kill switches to all new vehicles.

The move allows government authorities to shut down or remotely operate any car, truck, or SUV produced after August 2026.

The disturbing new rule was reported automotive news outlet Motorious.

According to the report, former Georgia Congressman Bob Barr has been sounding the alarm on the terrifying new law after finding it buried within the Biden “infrastructure” legislation.


Your car is now an instrument of state power to be used against you, just like your phone.
143   fdhfoiehfeoi   2023 Jan 2, 11:20pm  

Patrick says

Your car is now an instrument of state power to be used against you, just like your phone.


Only until such time as they can be eliminated from our possession altogether.
144   Patrick   2023 Jan 3, 8:56pm  




Posted before, but still appropriate.
147   Patrick   2023 Mar 20, 8:17pm  

https://merylnass.substack.com/p/you-didnt-really-believe-that-telegram


You didn't really believe that Telegram, Gab, Signal, etc. were private now, did you?
Not according to Matt Taibbi's twitter feed and the Twitter Files.

The Stanford Internet Observatory hub was able to peer into virtually all social media networks. Of course.

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/twitter-files-virality-project-covid-misinformation/

“According to Taibbi, the Virality Project was influential in Twitter changing its COVID-19 content policies “in partnership with the CDC.”’ It was those federal partnerships that will get everyone in trouble.

I hope my readers grasp the enormity of the censorship. They don’t need arcane forms of mind control when the censors can infiltrate every single thing you experience online. They remove the facts they don’t like and up-code the narratives they do like. Simple. Effective. Real value for money.

If they get to continue, our freedoms will never come back.



148   fdhfoiehfeoi   2023 Mar 20, 9:36pm  

Patrick says

They remove the facts they don’t like and up-code the narratives they do like. Simple. Effective. Real value for money.


That's why you use the wayback machine and other internet archive websites.
152   Patrick   2023 Mar 26, 7:44pm  

https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/what-is-the-state-dept-hiding-from/comment/13904478


CindyLou
Mar 24
I use a de-googled android phone (running lineageOS) and I use the F-Droid store for open source apps. Works well! https://f-droid.org/

You have to unlock your bootloader, install a different "recovery" package (TWRP or Lineage's Recovery) and then wipe and do a fresh install of your new OS. There are step-by-step tutorials out there.



crimedog
Mar 24
I too used F-Droid until I heard about better security, privacy, and auto-update in Droid-ify.

Reference e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzpVI4zaso0
153   Patrick   2023 Apr 13, 7:14pm  

https://notthebee.com/article/the-fbi-is-warning-us-not-to-use-public-phone-charging-stations-and-somehow-i-just-knew-those-things-were-too-good-to-be-true


The FBI recently warned consumers against using free public charging stations, saying crooks have managed to hijack public chargers that can infect devices with malware, or software that can give hackers access to your phone, tablet or computer.


The FBI is jealous.
154   FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden   2023 Apr 13, 7:18pm  

Patrick says






our government is upset that chinese communist assholes are cutting in on nsa action.
155   fdhfoiehfeoi   2023 Apr 14, 7:56am  

Yes, forget about the zero day exploits they could install in all our Chinese HW, it's TickTok that's the problem!
157   fdhfoiehfeoi   2023 May 9, 10:10am  

WhatsApp was completely exposed as insecure, and spyware years ago. Are people really still not aware?
162   Patrick   2023 Jun 13, 3:41pm  

https://www.frontpagemag.com/if-amazon-thinks-youre-a-racist-it-will-shut-down-your-smart-home/


If Amazon Thinks You’re a Racist, It Will Shut Down Your Smart Home
You no longer control your home. Amazon does.
June 13, 2023

... A package was delivered to my house on Wednesday, May 24, and everything seemed fine. The following day, however, I found that my Echo Show had signed out, and I was unable to interact with my smart home devices…

The representative told me I should have received an email, which I indeed found in my inbox. It was from an executive at Amazon. As I dialed the number provided in the email, I half-wondered if Amazon was experiencing some issues and I was unwittingly falling into a scam.

When I connected with the executive, they asked if I knew why my account had been locked. When I answered I was unsure, their tone turned somewhat accusatory. I was told that the driver who had delivered my package reported receiving racist remarks from my “Ring doorbell”

Brandon Jackson, a Microsoft software engineer, who is writing this is actually black.

I reviewed the footage and confirmed that no such comments had been made. Instead, the Eufy doorbell had issued an automated response: “Excuse me, can I help you?” The driver, who was walking away and wearing headphones, must have misinterpreted the message. Nevertheless, by the following day, my Amazon account was locked, and all my Echo devices were logged out.

Since everything is centralized, losing your Amazon account also kills the smart home setup meaning that everything from thermostats to lights to vacuums might not work anymore.

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