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0 pointsgjsman-10004y ago0 comments

Yes, but if you are that paranoid and worried about it, the fact remains you should not carry an electronic device.

This person is so paranoid, that they believe that a cyberweapon developed by a private company in Israel that uses previously-unknown bugs in the most sandboxed messaging system you can get on a phone are going to be deployed against them, so they should not use the calling, texting, or any other "phone-like" functionalities of a phone.

They then distrust that the End to End Encryption is in-fact End to End, and then think that using Signal or something is more secure, when if a bug in a system more sandboxed than Signal was found (iMessage, which has BlastDoor which Signal does not have), it is more than likely that Signal has it's own zero-days in it, so you shouldn't be using that either.

That's paranoid, and if you are that paranoid (which, maybe you have a reason to be), your solution isn't well thought-through. You shouldn't be using a phone if you can help it.

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fsflover4y ago

You could carry a device with kill switches and only turn them on when you need a connection. See: Librem 5 and Pinephone.

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0 pointsgjsman-10004y ago0 comments

Yes, but if you are that paranoid and worried about it, the fact remains you should not carry an electronic device.

That's paranoid, and if you are that paranoid (which, maybe you have a reason to be), your solution isn't well thought-through. You shouldn't be using a phone if you can help it.