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Since Snowden I use my phone in minimalistic way. Phone calls. Minimal texting. No games. Banking apps if necessary. Treat your phones as an enemy. Use real co
by nbzso 5y ago
Since Snowden I use my phone in minimalistic way. Phone calls. Minimal texting. No games. Banking apps if necessary.
Treat your phones as an enemy. Use real computers with VPN and software like Little Snitch when online. Use cameras for photography and video.
The benefits of this approach are immense. I have long attention span. I don't have fear of missing out.
If governments wan't the future to be painted by tracing and surveillance mediated towards people trough big tech - lets make it mandatory by law. And since big tech will reap benefits from the big data they must provide phones for free.
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- gruez 5y ago>Treat your phones as an enemy. Use real computers with VPN and software like Little Snitch when online. I'm assuming your "real computer" is a mac (since little snitch is mac only). What makes you think apple won't do the same for macos? Also, while you have greater control with a "real computer", you also have less privacy from the apps themselves, since they're unsandboxed and have full access to your system.
- nbzso 5y agoNot the right logic here. Check your idea more seriously. Mac os is just an example.
- gruez 5y agoYour advice might be sound with the proper operating system choice, but the fact that you made such a glaring error in your initial comment makes it hard to take you seriously. It also brings into question whether you actually have a good understanding of privacy/security, or are just LARPing.
- nbzso 5y agoError? Seriously? Did you make a wrong assumption that I care? About karma? I share my experience and my point of view. Nothing more, nothing less. And the most important point is not technical. The most important point is personal habits. To overcome smartphone addiction. We put our lives, thoughts and photos on closed technology and have false expectations that someone will care for our security or wellbeing. On a serious note: If you want privacy/security as a semi-professional use: No mobile phone. https://www.qubes-os.org/ https://www.qubes-os.org/ with https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/certified-hardware/ https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/certified-hardware/
- amatecha 5y agoThey said "_software like_ Little Snitch"... Don't assume.
- gruez 5y agoI get that, but on the other hand if someone says "if you care about privacy, you should use an e2e messenger like whatsapp", then I'll have serious doubts about whether you're actually knowledgeable or just spouting buzzwords.
- djd7duehrj 5y agoIf you're treating your phone as hostile why would you skip gaming apps but use banking ones? That seems backwards if you're assuming your mobile is the weak point.
- nbzso 5y agoActually we are the weak point. The phone stuff is just unregulated capitalism.
- djd7duehrj 5y agoSure, but that still leaves the question of why mobile banking and not mobile games w/ pc banking.
- nbzso 5y agoSorry, I misunderstand your question. I just don't like mobile games, and mobile banking is acceptable use case for me at the moment. But pc banking is obviously a better choice. The general idea of treating your phone as a problem has deep personal benefits. It started for me with realization (years ago) that I am an addict for "dopamine" hits and this "thing" in my pocket has direct influence on my mental performance.
- gruez 5y ago>It started for me with realization (years ago) that I am an addict for "dopamine" hits and this "thing" in my pocket has direct influence on my mental performance. Sounds like this is more about "checking your phone less", than "improving security/privacy". This is evident elsewhere in your advice. eg. "phones as an enemy", but no advice about killswitches for microphone? Or some sort of mitigation against GPS/mobile networking tracking?
- bigiain 5y agoI don't agree with some (most?) of the parent posters comments in this threa. But I feel there's a valid argument to be made that if your adversary is the sort of people who'd be feeding Apple image hashes to find people, you're probably be wise to carry a regular phone on which you do boring norm-core sorts of things. A phone you use to take pictures of cats and pay your rent using banking apps and call your parents - while not using it to communicate with your dealer or your anarchist collective or your friendly investigative journalist.
- KirillPanov 5y ago> Since Snowden I use my phone in minimalistic way. Dude, you carry it around with you, with its radio enabled. You're just fooling yourself.
- nbzso 5y agoYes, I am a dumb person obviously. Thanks for your invaluable input. Dude. But my use case is not to hide or remove digital exhaust. Creating habit of limited usage is more important and realistic. Funny part is that as a side-effect I don't cary my smartphone around so much. I have separate GPS system in my cars and dumb phone for emergency.