Comment by anthk

4 days ago

Richard Stallman was right. Buy a dumbphone, an actual one. Call's, SMS', nothing else.

Did you know that women's period was tracked by propietary smartphone apps?

There goes your freedom.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-61952794

You can still be location-tracked with a dumb phone. Yes, even if the phone has no GPS. Any communication with the network gives away your location to the "right" people.

  • Pocket Faradays cages (and metallic clothes) exist. In the end if you use as a landline phone substitute it's almost a hardware issue and software would be just testimonial there.

  • it can, but it's significantly harder. With good enough opsec the info leaked through cell activity is practically negligible