I broke my phone a few months ago and I hadn’t use a phone since I didn’t need it until now. I’m willing to buy one that’s around under 500$. I’m thinking of getting google pixel maybe, any recommendations?
I broke my phone a few months ago and I hadn’t use a phone since I didn’t need it until now. I’m willing to buy one that’s around under 500$. I’m thinking of getting google pixel maybe, any recommendations?
Chinese phone has American hardware and Chinese software, the latter which you will remove. Will you be able to get rid of the greater hardware threat? This is a game these people will trap you into.
I suggest getting familiar with OPSEC and educating yourselves with 101 security and privacy instead of playing into this geopolitics, contemporary xenophobia and security theater.
hmm. what phone do you use personally then? I haven’t dipped much into privacy on phones. but I think you know more than I do. I’ll read your article later, I just want a good answer for now.
My personal threat model is avoiding 14 Eyes surveillance, so I use Huawei P30 Lite, as I noted in my smartphone guide (link I shared in a parent comment).
Huawei’s hardware according to BlackHat Pwn2Own 2017-2020, has been largely safe on par with “secure” Pixels. See page 5 of PDF for phonemaker brands. https://github.com/secmob/TiYunZong-An-Exploit-Chain-to-Remotely-Root-Modern-Android-Devices/raw/master/us-20-Gong-TiYunZong-An-Exploit-Chain-to-Remotely-Root-Modern-Android-Devices.pdf
I have de-corporation-ified it and the closed source apps WhatsApp and Discord are sandboxed into Work Profile. All other apps I use are FOSS, and the whole phone is tunneled through NetGuard with 1.3M HOSTS rules blocking. Android/AOSP’s VPN Lockdown feature stays on to prevent any traffic leakage.
For VPN, I am part of Riseup Collective so I use that.
This is not a comment to tell you that you should use Huawei, just an answer to your first question. As for your query here…
I suggest going through my OPSEC and smartphone guides so that you can formulate your own threat model and enjoy a secure, private life without falling for FUD.