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Not really. Burner phones should be cheap and off the shelf. You can use a custom rom, with an open radio. If Qualcomm, QXDM/QPST to modify radio rom setting
by rootsudo 9y ago
Not really.
Burner phones should be cheap and off the shelf.
You can use a custom rom, with an open radio.
If Qualcomm, QXDM/QPST to modify radio rom settings including modifying ESN/MEID/IMEI/Bluetooth Serial, etc.
You pick a off the shelf model that's easy to unlock, and flash.
You customize your own rom, and flash it. You eliminate all possible vectors of "hacks" e.g. oem apps and downloaded APK'.
Then the telecom service itself is where it'd e most vulnerable, in fingerprinting your geophysical location and such.
You can modify the GPS, to throw it off, sure. That's already done with rooted devices and you can eve thrown in a few mile obscurity, but, the tower location will ultimately pinpoint you through triangulation.
- CRImier 9y agoYou're mostly right on your assessment - I don't intend it to be a good burner phone. There's the possibility to swap in GSM modems (thus changing IMEI) - except that the "manufacturer" part in IMEI is going to stay the same, or very similar, so it'd be like that story about a guy who sent in a bomb threat on his college campus through Tor, and it turned out he was the only one using Tor on the campus. IMO characteristics for a good burner phone are just like you're describing, and best practice is to throw those out or destroy them, after all. And keep in mind that there's also the fact that you have to buy the phones somewhere - that can be tracked, whether it's a package from eBay with 10 similar phones or just a guy buying the cheapest prepaid phones in a supermarket.