Is loading the Android Custom ROM - LineageOS Safe for Privacy?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- Is it a good idea to change your Android phone to LineageOS (a custom ROM build over Android Open Source Project)? This video discusses the privacy threats in a typical Android phone. Then we will compare how LineageOS fares against that.
We also compare LineageOS to Ubuntu Touch.
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9:30 if you're knowledgeable about privacy threats and just wanna hear about lineage
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Thank you for this video. English is not my primary language and I don't need to read the auto subtitle, thanks to your slow and clear speech.
Edit : subscribed. Your new videos in 4K are so nice to look at
I'm curious why this video is still on TH-cam!?😳
There are ways to hide yourself from youtube. And he isn't asking you to hide yourself completely anyway, reduce the data they have on you. That's it.
@@SpaceTimeBeing_ he might be referring to the fact that google don’t like these kind of videos
because he also posts everything on LBRY so if they kick him here, it will draw thousands of people to LBRY overnight... they're better off with people watching him here than LBRY
Because Google doesn't care. A very small percentage of people are actually going to ditch all Google services. Not even Rob ditched all Google services, it's practically impossible at this point.
Because TH-cam isn't from China, North Korea or Russia
Boomers: I don't trust those smart devices
Millenials: lol ok boomer
Zoomers: I don't trust those smart devices
the circle is completed
@nonameroy101 lol okay boomer.🙃
the the millenials just continue with "Ok zoomer".
My generation sucks most of the time.
Nah plenty of Gen Z stuck in that mentality too.
Most of gen Z is just signing their information away to tech
the mistake oneplus made with the opo was that they made it too future proof, am still using it, Los is still compatible and being updated for opo
14:10 this is a problem that isn't unique to just phones, like how HP Laptop audio drivers were found to have built-in keyloggers. It just goes to show there is no software solution for top-notch privacy. The only Android phone I know about to have completely rewritten drivers is the galaxy S3, and that is hardly powerful enough to keep up with today's demands.
Have more Info? I have s5 but i will go down if it is worth it.
Wtf
The S3 probably is very powerful (I can't remember the specs) but modern websites/apps are very bloated. Take Windows 10 vs Linux on an old laptop for example.
there is a Pinephone pro which can hold up and can run android inside a container called waydroid and can be even your pc and phone but this won't be useable for most because you need to rethink how updates work and what lifelong updates means
Great video. Wld be good to see a comparison with Graphene OS.
Check these out:
Calyx OS th-cam.com/video/heVNcdq2MKA/w-d-xo.html
/e/OS part 1 th-cam.com/video/C9fFiaGv2WA/w-d-xo.html
/e/OS part 2 th-cam.com/video/m_fijLQxZLU/w-d-xo.html
GPS has worked indoors for years ever since the company called Sirf invented a GPS receiver that can pick up fragments of GPS signal and piece them together. Obviously outdoors is a better signal but you can get a GPS position indoors these days
Excellent video about the lack of privacy and too much power Big Tech has! Congratulations!
Thank you!
As you appreciate queries, if i heard you right, I would like to do the honors:
1. Your motive behind naming a particular custom ROM developer when you know that all custom ROMs are built on the code that google releases to AOSP on its own terms and conditions.
2. Why this mismatch between saying and doing? For example, being google agnostic and running a channel here on TH-cam, an app developed and controlled by Google. How'd you explain it?
3. Any app made to use WiFi, be it open source or proprietary, is bound to scan AP's otherwise it will burn a hole in users metered data. In order to connect to the AP, it needs its exact location and MAC which is impossible without utilizing the GPS. If these locations and MAC's are stored on the device, they are equally open to all potential abusers. Then, why blame only Google knowing that it is the big data miner in the market?
4. Given the continued attempts from Governments all over the globe to regulate and control the internet, what do you suppose that different ISP's should do? Should they rise against the law of the land and get kicked in the belly or what?
5. This point is related to your wifi trangulation remark. Anonymously determining user locations is part of virtually every cell phone carrier's terms-of-service, though most phones allow the user to turn off location services. If the ball is in a user's coat, why do you blame anyone else? And how would you explain this that the same WiFi triangulation is used to track persons in a storm, blizzard, or cast away by some shipwreck, etc?
6. With the exception of Linux kernel, entire Android OS is developed by Google from scratch. Interestingly, Google also contributes to the development of Linux Kernel, sending patches etc. Then, how much difference would removing a single app like 'Play store' make? What about those millions of code snippets that run deep in the OS informing Google about everything it's interested in. Microsoft's windows suffers the same setback and privacy conscious people started to moving to Linux.
7. Web-Apps are better? Google's Chrome, Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Apple's Safari are all a part of this game. No doubt, there are some privacy respecting browsers like Mozilla's Firefox or Tor browser, but they can't be used to their full potential on a platform like Android. So, there is no foolproof privacy and security when you know you can't control all things of which Android is composed of. Perhaps, that's why some tech savvy people prefer Linux as it can be built from scratch, controlling every bit of data entering or leaving the machine.
8. Pardon my French, what I found in this video is an atrocious concoction of crap, completely incoherent, leading by the topic "Is LineageOS Safe for privacy" but never touching it clearly or giving evidence in support of or against it. Your 18 minute video can hardly provide a single substantial information which could identify LineageOS in particular as a good or bad custom ROM. Whatever things you mentioned are so general and applicable to every goddam ROM and gadget that the viewer ultimately forgets why he or she is actually viewing your video.
9. Let me put it this way - world Governments today have geared their efforts to to regulate "Internet" and are always in search of excuses to make laws in this context. You might be familiar with the terms like "Five Eyes", " Nine Eyes", "Fourteen Eyes", " Trinaitra", "the Great Wall", the India Wall" and so on. When our governments don't want us to be secure, how can we blame big organizations whose sole motive is profits?
8. When a phone or some electronic gadget comes to the market, it had to sign many agreements with the government and comply with the terms therein. You'll always see these terms are government friendly and tax related. Did you ever see a pro-citizen condition in these agreements? For example, govt enforcing the vendor for post sales service to customers. Had this been so, you would not have felt constrained to look for a new phone in just four years period. What about the hard earned mony you are forced to waste in the shape of your old phone which is getting outdated due to nonavailability of updates and security patches? Who's responsible for this - a phone vendor who wants to sell you a new phone or the government which lets him get away with it?
9. Scaring away the phone users is no solution, I agree. But, they have to understand that social media is not the only place to be idling. Internet is also an informal school where you could become aware through search and research. An informed person is the only one who can live with ever changing technology without making fuss.
Wow, just so happen to run into your video and I'm sold. This is great stuff, did not miss a beat and well put together. I will be tuning and network your channel. Your skill as an instructor is extremely important for detailing the purpose of each category, and you nail it. Trust me, I will browse through all your videos. Thank you sir for your contribution of knowledge.
the next big thing in youtube. Keep up the good work, sir.
Great and very informative! I Zucking love it!
I see what you did there. 😏👌
Never have seen your videos before but this one sold me! Very well done! Subscribed!
Nice job, Rob... Just in time and just what I needed to know. Keep 'em coming, if you have the bandwidth... Rob N.
Love the content, really eye opening!
Thanks for the excellent information. Would like to hear your views on LineageOS for MicroG with regards to these issues you discussed. Many thanks
Watch my many other de-Googled videos
@@robbraxmantech Will do. Thanks
just replaced the old samsung touchwiz of my Samsung Tab S 8.4 to Lineage OS 14.1 , i love it, smooth as butter and daily updates, up to December 5, 2020 android security patch lately, waiting for February 2021 release... :D
Thanks Rob! That was educational.
Nice video, but i think you should explain that Lineage OS is an Android custom rom so in the end its still android in the base code.
This guy is hilarious. His ominous opening tune is the best. I thought he was gonna jump through the screen and slash my throat when that jingle started up!
Your voice is full of melody.
Good diction!
Watch Mental Outlaw's video about using a feature phone for privacy!
Ty learned a ton and subbed up
use pc install android os or emulator bcoz pc dont have gps hardware?
Librem5 isn't immune to firmware eavesdropping because there are still blobs in the firmware
There's no need for blobs. Basebands have backdoors period. So the only consolation is that you can switch it off on the lIbrem 5 and it doesn't share main memory bus
And for me is expensive fot that hardware.
I love your videos man, am all about privacy and security although I don’t have anything to hide but I think that the more they know the more they can manipulate you. What do you think about the one plus open 2 device? I really like that phone and am trying to transition to all linux with lineage os even linux for gaming etc plus my own nextcloud. What is your opinion on all that?
Good to know & thanks for the info.
i always used , magisk in combination with Xprivacy ( an app, where you can set for every other apps even the google apps , what they may and may not know. network, location, microphone, analytices, and so on ) i hopt his makes me a bit more secure and private. SInce hell broke lose ( furter stripping of our privacy because of a 'virus' ) i stepped back to a Nokia flipphone that is 10 years old, or even older.. :)
thank you for the very informative video
Hi Rob, in the description of the threats, you say Wifi Triangulation happens because Network Scanning is done in first hand. That way, Google collects the scanning infos and then eventually communicate them to third partiy apps. However you say later that there should not be any network scanning happening in LineageOS but that wifi triangulation should not be any different from an android phone.
My question is then : How third party apps would acquire the infos from the Net Scan if it does'nt occur ?
Google used to say Do no evil... I guess they meant that for everyone else.
Hey, I attended a workshop about online self defense by Digital Courage, a German Data Protection NGO, a couple of weeks ago. They told us about Lineage OS which is how I found your great channel. While my phone is supported by the system my tablet is not. Neither it is supported by Ubuntu touch. Are there ways of running lineage os or ubuntu touch on a Samsung Galaxy Tab A?
Greetings from Germany (=
Usually a Tablet has no cell service so then the answer is just to use it on a VPN network or install a VPN on it. And if it has cell capability, remove the SIM card
@@robbraxmantech okay, good to know. thanks a lot
What about a good voice assistant, like a replacement of "hey Google what is my next turn" or "hey Google how far away is the next rest area" ... driving an 80 thousand pound weapon of mass destruction... I don't look at my phone when I drive, and i use voice assistant alot ..
And what are my options with the Samsung Note ten plus 5G?
Perhaps a rundown of the device "ring" user space levels would be helpful here. I know the threat is different than the Intel x86 ME system running their custom root-pwn Minix OS. With ARM's ownership and licensing of the ISA/IP blocks, can any ARM device claim open hardware status? Do any of the fabs/manufacturers know exactly what is on the die, or are they subject to the same kind of abstraction: x goes in, z comes out, and you don't ask y?
Last question, why the heck doesn't someone make documented networking hardware? Freaking Broad/Qual-Cons.
I think we should just admit, if this spy crap hardware is acceptable, Bin Laden accomplished his goal. Just the fact Snowden is still in Russia is all the proof I need. That dude is a real hero.
You're making a big confusion on point 1 and 2. Smartphone GPS is not limited to satellites like vehicle GPS devices are. Smartphones have multiple systems to pinpoint your location even an abandoned building. It uses cell towers along satellites. 99% percent of the time you are in the range of at least 2 cell towers. Wi-Fi networks are just a bonus. Continuous searching for wireless networks can be disabled developer options.
Love this video
You are doing a GREAT job, Mr. Braxman. Speak a bit faster. I hope you are abe to teach us how to deGoogle our phones. I want to try this on a cheap phone first.
gps is accurate to 6 inches but by law that accuracy can not be released to civilians so the government or those approved by them can find you unless inside
correct
No its not.
Notification WITHOUT the big g is available on Fdroid
7:08 I thought he was gonna say WTF....turned out to be the phone.
Consider using a faraday bag.
What are your thoughts on grapheneOS? Which was recommended by Edward Snowden.
I have the same question. I have not been able to find the answer anywhere.
Lineage OS has the options fake Geolocation and hide IP address like e/OS? I don't use any google app in my android phone.
Why do you think all these manufacturers/cell service providers/chips makers are fighting so hard to keep the bootloader locked on as many phones as possible? Why do you think apple is fighting jailbreak so hard?
can you pls make a video about Graphene OS?
Graphene is good.
Rob Braxman Tech yea I’d also like to know your take on GrapheneOS and how it compares to LineageOS if possible. Just subbed to your channel btw, keep up the great content!
Very Imformative. ty..
I am considering de-googling my Motorola one action by installing Lineage OS. I dn't use ot as a phone, mostly as a tablet.
it was not safe
One_ it turned off my android automatically
Two_ crashed my phone black screen won't turn on again
Three _easily to break my power button
do you sell android phones flashed with Graphene os at your store. Can you give me details of how to contact your store. I am an old fella and just dont get this modern world but I do need max security. Please reply
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wifi triangulation could be blocked by software, as long as a hardware call is necessary. Wouldn't be perfect but at least it would at least be less misleading
just use microG modules for push with root
I installed lineage onto my samsung galaxy tab s2 9.7. was android 7 but now it is android 10. but it is so buggy now. pubg mobile crashes and cod mobile crashes. never did that before to me with android 7. so in terms of lineage it is not worth the performance boost as it will be buggy and unstable compared to android 7.0. or any stock android os. so I am downloading my old rom off of the trusted sites I go to. reinstall and never take my old os 7 for granted anymore.
I installed lineage os 17.1 on my galaxy s7 edge but I couldn't send voice message on whatsapp, this finally made to switch back to my normal rom
Ok that sucks! Can anyone else reconfirm this?
you should try other custom rom, resurrection remix
@@idhamaljaroo4708 Yeah brother
@@fightingforce8498 currently am using black diamond n8 port rom android 9p pie
Please check out e-os a fork of lineage-os in europe
Im just curious why Lineage doesn't built independent OS which is will not based on Android, ? Even Lineage working hard to protect our privacy it still insite full of google junk that we don't need it , Google able send a bug to make a failure in the system and it is very unpleasant when you need tore flash your phone all over again
This is a major project. Look at the Linux phone OS makers. years and years later and things are are not running still. Android is Open Source. LineageOS is open source. So there are no mysteries to what's in it
Why wouldn't lineage start producing its own brand of mobile phone ? it would be super, I'm ready to make a prepayment right now , I want to be your first buyer of Lineage Mobile device .
@Rob Braxman Tech
your project, as well as CM, is just a salvation for anyone who does not want to be objects of interference in their personal life, but unfortunately the all what are you are doing this is not enough, Android regularly integrated in their OS more and more options which is in one side makes the OS more usually but in another hands side the same options provided to any types of scammers easy to get into our privacy easy then it was , as well the social network as FB just digging in our life as in their pants pocket without any hesitation . Most of the customers of Android just don't know how to turn off the access this option , and it is by default os on from the begging . Another problem is that Chinese manufacturers begins prohibited unlock boot on their devices, then it is not possible to install Lineage on it , I have Huawai X10 , and it is brand new going to rubbish bin because impossible to unlock its boot .
Video about privacy. TH-cam discloses Los Angeles location tag. 🤔
Yup. I say it on my videos. There are 10 million people here.
Hi, I have Xiaomi Mi A3 running stock Android 10 and it's very buggy even though it's a Android One smartphone. i want to root it and install LineageOS 17.1. But it's not officially stable version available right now. Privacy is not my concern at all. What to do ?
Then don't watch this video because people don't care about privacy is shit and stupid idea. I blame the government for this.
16:12 Are you saying Apple is not collecting data?
And Tanya could never figure any of this out I'd like to do it like to buy the phone but I couldn't figure it out I get home And I be in trouble
Rob my phone I got from you will not ring now ? So what up with that ?
This guy uploaded the video from Los Angeles.
I am hacked because I'm a 69yr old woman that can send some people to jail. I have contract stalkers. Harrassment 24/7
I need a phone , because this one or the last 26 have been comendere d compleatly. These guys keep me from getting my self a place to live. After I call,
Man calls in and and scares them stating I'm Person of interest. But it's them that are the criminals.
That 6-feet number is a very interesting number, now that it's 2021. hmm
Sailfish OS is another good alternative, working with newer Xperia Phones
Does it works with the XZ Premium phone?
Excellent video, very informative thank you.
LineageOS for microG what abt it i am more concerened about govt than ggogle atleast my phone device i used is only seen by me unlike the regular android whther i use a 300 $ phone or $1,299 the reuglar android is acked by in seconds so can anybody tell me is it safe on this factor then i am gonna use it
Which is the best custom ROM ? Tell your opinion
LineageOS is the most active and most popular so it should get more bug fixes.
For me pixel experience
@@robbraxmantech thank you
@@robbraxmantech what about havoc os?
@Gabriele Clemente Pirozzi there is google apps on that ROM. not safe and not the best privacy ROM
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I am throwing my phone out and gonna live my life out in the forest. Goodbye everybody.
@mooots Capitalism is private property rights. You can buy the forest. The problem is the government that taxes you.
Gayyyyy
hows going out there homie
@Agnish Roy lmao
I will move there with you. How can I get in contact with you?
As a software engineer, everything Rob said with respect to how Google and big tech tracks you is spot on.
Thanks Rob for the excellent security review and the high-value PSA (Public Service Announcement).
thank you
He is a SE too 😂
@@mhrf90 he understands the inner workings because he is, in fact, a software engineer. That's my point
@@robbraxmantech Can you review lineage OS for MicroG? A fork of the lineage build that implement MicroG (to replace google services) and selectively provide spoofing only for microG? (instead of a general one)
YES! It is funny how engineers are attacked and called "conspiracy theorists" by people that know nothing about but claim we should hear the "experts'... Well, f- them! I"M HEARING A EXPERT! FFS! They are so out of reality... They say "expert" when they never researched about those stuffs, they can't name a single expert...
as an experienced developer, I'm impressed with you knowledge, subscribed in a heartbeat!
Checkout my github then. github.com/robbraxman/
@Fine Wine really i am not a developer but this is basic stuff was nothing new also he is talking so slow and the video is 17 minute
@@anands1079 i speed him up to1.5....all good then.
I agree with OG poster! 💯💯
@@anands1079 That Ok. I'm old and hard of hearing.
In current scenario ... All these knowledge should be part of school education ...
School education systems are outdated.
Funny enough just as old outdated computer operating systems, it leaves the users vulnerable to stuff, just like, all the stuff they do not teach us about.
Why would they do that when school is designed to dumb you down and indoctrinate you. These phones are designed to track, spy and sell your data. They would not teach you this for that reason..
lol, back in my primary school, they taught IT like everyone was a numb fk, we were told to memorise where the cross(close button of a window on Windows XP) was, I mean looking back at it, even the moment I got my own laptop was just leaving me speechless, I feel like i was treated even dumber than (or less intelligent) as a caveman from stoneage
@@91722854 same feeling 😅😂
Well why don't they teach surgery in school? Just because we are interested in things like a custom rom there is no reason to teach that specific tech things in school. Although i agree that schools are very outdated in the tech education
This is why i was so upset when google bought the project for modular phones it would have been amazing to have removable gps wifi and bluetooth moduals or hardware kill switches.
Google killed it immediately because this would have destroyed the phone market(driving prices down due to 3rd party hardware competition) and messed with their data analytics.
Wait, which project?
@@angelnajera7169 it was called project Ara. I distinctly remember it originally as kickstarter project with a code name like project lisa or something weird then i remember hearing google acquired it.
But apparently i was wrong and google somehow owned it all along, and it is called project ara.
Its times like this when i feel like im in the wrong timeline...
Heres the wiki on project ara
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Ara
There already is a great upcoming option in the form of Pinephone and Librem 5. Both of them are primarily manufactured entirely in China and that's my biggest concern(hardware backdoors and some blobs they haven't yet gotten an open source alternative for), but there already is a Librem 5 USA version, in time this phone can become cheaper and be manufactured in other places that are more trustworthy than China so future has great options coming up.
@@randomrandom316 i applaud your optimism
@@randomrandom316 Yeah. That's going to take a WHILE though. The librem seems to be pretty backlogged. Though hardware killswitches have me the most excited.
5:36 Nice router name 😂
HAHA, I didn't catch that..
You can disable WiFi Scanning, and Bluetooth Scanning. A simple RF meter will reveal if the phone is still emanating RF with those features disabled, and while the phone is in Airplane Mode to confirm.
When I met my gf she gave me her phone number and 2 days later she was on my Facebook recommendations. WTF!! Also moved and Facebook started recommending people that were in my area. WTF!!! My friend made a Facebook. He didn't add anybody and he popped up on my recommendations even though he hadn't added anyone..WTF!!!!!
zucked!
So relatable, even to my online shopping apps
dude I baught toothpaste with my credit card and two mins later had toothpaste yt adds infront of videos.
Never had the desire to install Facebook. I owned their stock at one time but sold it all for a small profit. I do use WeChat. Even though I've been told it's parent company Tencent is connected to the Chinese Communist Party, I find that the built-in privacy features make it a better social media app as an American living in the USA anyway. Not sure how it would be if I was Chinese living in China and using WeChat.
same I was "talking" with my gf about car insurance and got all the ads I could get lol
You need to put the video speed to 1.5 to listen him speak in normal speed 😂
You are a good fella
1.25 is pretty good actually
I have "Enhancer for TH-cam" set the playback speed to 2.0x by default, that's the slowest I listen to anything.
1.25 feels more natural
@@glenn7095 thanks
Also one very disturbing thing, i have lg g8 i was on discord chat and my phone froze i could still hear and talk to people in the chat, i helld the power for hard reset the chat was still going after the phone was off and didn't turn off untill i began to boot the device again. I have no idea how this happened but it is very disturbing.
Unless you remove the battery, it’s never really powered off
@@catvideos3249 cant remove because waterproof bs
I don‘t even own a Android device and I still watched the whole thing. Very interesting.
Most things here said also are true for an iOS device
@Max Raider siri as an example listening 24/7
@Max Raider what's with the reports of siri listening to drug deals and people having sex ?
You access the internet, have a Google account... that's plenty to collect data from ;)
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Use fdroid and apk pure plus a rooted phone with xprivacy
APKpure now has its own "store" application which is fantastic!
What are apk plus and x privacy?
@@lucasb0rges bruh it exists since 2016 probably
Well aurora store is far better option
@@buzdi_dop unfortunatly its "burner" accounts all got shut down.
so you will need to make a spare account for google.
Dude really appreciated this! You really broke down everything in easy to understand way! Thank you! Definitely subscribing!
Thanks for the sub!
Hey Rob, can you make a video about the evolution of cyber surveillance in phone's? I would be intrested to know how thing's where implemented the way they are. You also inspired me to switch from windows to linux and start studying to become a system and network admin. i will try to do this for my phone as well.
Stunning job, Rob! That’s something everyone should watch before using any android smartphone.
That's why I use rooted devices with firewall and xposed framework, blocking all no necessary outgoing traffic and providing false data about location, contacts etc. to apps.
How do you provide false data?
@@Broxine With Xposed framework which can provide fake contacts, location etc. Very useful tool with many different plugins. I can't post links so try to search "android xposed framework".
Odd question but can other people view us on the front or rear facing cameras? Can people access my pics? If I took nude shots of myself, should I be concerned that it will pop up in one of the thousands of porn sites? Or are photos, vid or the phone camera not a concern? Thanks
Great video with a lot of information, clearly, slowly and detailed enough to understand!
I would have appreciated you to clean your sweater though. Distracted me a lot xD
For you Google map user, MicroG is here for you
microg.org/
First time seeing one of your videos. Extremely impressed by the way you broke down your message in a logical step by step manner that made it easy to understand and come to the conclusions drawn. I did not know GOOGLE had designed so many features designed to track and record various characteristics of people! A couple of questions tho... I realized when I was a young adolescent that if I wrapped my phone on aluminum foil and tried calling it, it would not ring, even if I was mere feet away from it. Would blocking its ability to recieve and send signals like so also be efficient against the threats mentioned? Also, if one was to use a different OS and use apps outside of the play store, do you mean you can go to websites like apk pure and download apps from there that are found on the play store (whether created by Google or not.)
You mention wifi triangulation {I believe that's what you referred to it as}... If you turned off the wifi, would it still be able to? Many phones these days have the option of spoofing the MAC address, does this solve the problem of them using your MAC address? You mention kill switches... Do certain OSes not have the ability to use the software to turn the hardware off? And last but not least, I've been considering rooting my phone for quite some time now and recently purchased an Umidigi A11 Pro Max. It seems very vanilla and very easy to root and flash... Is this phone capable of running Ubuntu touch? If not can you provide me with a few examples? Excellent presentation! Subscribing right off the batt!
Covering it with aluminum foil would block any signal, so basically yes, it's the most effective way by far, if you don't have a Linux phone. This is also shown in one of the Terminator movies where Sara Connor covers her phone with a bag of potato chips (which is made of aluminum) so she doesn't get tracked.
Put your phone in a Faraday cage...
The one tech security reviewer who does not talk at the speed of sound !!
anytime i set up my g account on a new phone i always uncheck network scanning and location access for sure. id love to see some company come out with an actual affordable phone that is on par with android and i phone that is pro privacy.
/e/ is the current best, secure, private and data safe mobile OS compared to base google android with all the tracking apps. /e/ promise they can't and won't spy on any of your data. I don't think they can.
Which privacy...?!
Sorry, but what is actually privacy?
Thank you for your time. very intuitive video. Thanks again
Pro tip: play the video on 2x speed
Very interessting and what do you think about Sailfish OS ? and Havoc OS ?
@@Adkatka but is havoc save?
This has been so informative! I appreciate all the effort of explaining WHAT our choices are first before making a decision. Even my dopamine-starved brain sat and listen to every word you said. I've subbed and liked!
Love this guy
Very interesting ! Definitely worthes warching it ! "doing a little for your privacy is better than doing nothing"... well said !