If he had to use a phone, he wouldn’t buy a normal off the shelf iPhone or Android device like everyone else. He would use
@DanielMicay's
@GrapheneOS as the base operating system. He would physically disconnect the microphones and keep the radios (cellular, wifi, and bluetooth) turned off when he didn't need them. He would route all his network traffic through the
@torproject network. He wouldn't use WiFi at home, because global maps of every wireless access point's unique ID—including yours—are free and constantly updated. For network access, he would use Ethernet;
yes, Ethernet on a phone.
Software and Hardware Restrictions
He would deny network permissions to any app that doesn't need it using an app firewall. He would (and you should!) use an ad blocker, password manager and block third-party cookies in the browser. They're simple, cost little or nothing, and protect you while making your phone faster. Slightly more disruptive changes he’d suggest are disabling JavaScript, tracking, and fingerprinting in the browser, and ideally avoiding the browser on a phone entirely. It is more secure to browse on a laptop (with
@QubesOS) which does not have a history of everywhere you’ve been, since it lacks GPS & Wifi, and has
@Whonix built-in.
He would not use email, except as throwaways for registration. Email is a fundamentally insecure protocol that, in 2019, can and should be abandoned for the purposes of any meaningful communication. Email is unsafe. He'd use
@Signalapp or
@Wire as a safer alternative.
Even with all of these precautions, he still wouldn't consider a smartphone "safe," merely "safer." The technologies underpinning our most basic systems of communication are insecure, and often insecure by design.
His main point is not that you should use a phone like him, it’s that you shouldn't have to.
evanmccann.net
;p
). Darum war dein Vergleich mit Target auch so unpassend, denn das ein Verkäufer über die Schwangerschaft einer Kundin Bescheid weiß, wenn diese Baby-Artikel kauft, ist durchaus naheliegend. Dass Whatsapp aufgrund der Nutzung ihrer App darüber in Kenntnis gesetzt wird, wirkt etwas absurd.