One might say you’re not purr-sitive…

…I’ll let myself out.

Idk which revelation impresses me more: This guy that discovered thinking, or the cat who proposed the revolutionary new equation of E = MC² + AI

Even though it’s not technically physical, GrapheneOS does have switches for both the camera and mic that disable them at the system level.

So if you answer a call, for example, you’re prompted to unblock the mic because the phone app is requesting to use the mic.

One of my ideas for increasing GrapheneOS market share is to market GOS as the minimalist phone so many crave.

In recent times, I’ve stumbled across a handful of articles about how dumbphones are back, and how people crave more minimalist phones to curb smartphone addiction or otherwise.

GrapheneOS is a great minimalist phone that’s still “smart,” yet secure and private.

GOS is a way better option than dumbphones because:

1. Chances are you’ll need some sort of smartphone functionality. For example: Digital “live” tickets that you can’t screenshot and need to be opened on your phone directly (Ticketmaster, MLB, etc.)
2. Using a dumbphone reverts you to older technologies and protocols, like cell towers and SMS. These are inherently insecure and shouldn’t be used anymore. So even though you might “feel” like you’re better off, your communications (text, audio, video) take a huge leap backwards in terms of privacy and security.

It’s barbones Android, without the Google. You can add the Google stuff if you want, but by default, it comes completely de-Googled.

It also comes with some extra features, like granular app-level permissions, sandboxed Google Play Services (which a lotta apps use), duress PIN, and more.

Widely regarded as the safest and most private “commercial” mobile operating system.

Disclaimer: I run SwapMyOS, a GrapheneOS/custom ROM installation service.

Okay, I’ll be that guy: Keep em in your password manager.

And don’t save them in your browser. In fact, turn autofill off for your browser altogether.

You can autofill from your password manager, or copy and paste instead.

Usually, security comes at the cost of inconvenience, but in this case it’s actually the opposite.

That’s dope, glad it could help 🤟

I’m starting to edit idcaboutprivacy more and more often (and that’s not a good thing)

Don’t mind me, just adding it to idcaboutprivacy

Thanks. Built from scratch.

Gives me no pleasure to add it to idcaboutprivacy

Free and open source—feel free to contribute.

You can technically put GrapheneOS on a Fairphone, but it’s not officially supported.

Long term, the GOS team is looking to branch off from their reliance on Pixels.

Shameless plug for SwapMyOS

I’ll answer for the 99% of people in my life: Hiram

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No mention of all the privacy invasions you’d have to be good with so that the agents could do all that.

Now think about this with healthcare, finance, education, etc.

Done. Good lookin out.

I am once again recommending idcaboutprivacy

WhatsApp was charging $1-$3 per year before Facebook’s acquisition. They had 600M+ users and a team of twelve people. It was beautiful while it lasted.

Hopefully we can carry out the original mission with Signal.

idcaboutprivacy

Added to idcaboutprivacy (which is open source). If there are any other similar links, feel free to add them or send them my way.