Not Ready To Ditch Your "Smart"phone? Consider These Instead
5 Smartphones That Aim To Keep You Smart (instead of the other way around).
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Dear Sovereign Souls,
We know that the word smart in “smart”phones does not refer to its user. Duh! Instead, it’s the prefix for a device that gets smarter from extracting YOUR data, while YOU forget how to do things like:
math - by doing it in your fu*kin’ head or with pen and paper
navigation - by using a paper map or asking humans for directions
call by memory - by memorizing people’s phone numbers (remember this? how many did you know when you were a kid?)
weather forecasting - by looking up at the sky or reading your backyard barometer (remember throwing grass in the air to determine wind direction?)
know bank & wealth balance - by doing your own bookkeeping by hand or counting your gold and resources at home (remember the ledgers on the back of checks?)
You know…smart things.
“Smart”phones feed YOUR data to various entities, like:
ISPs
app developers
device manufacturers
government agencies (domestic AND foreign)
and ultimately corporations and powerful individuals who want to do who knows what with your data
Your smartphone transmits your medical data, finances, eating habits, lifestyle choices, travel itineraries, pictures & videos, geolocation plus data of everyone you associate with.
Even if you turn it “off”.
This would have been unacceptable just 20 years ago. Let’s hope the world in this short on Omeleto is a future that will never happen…
"There are very few legal limits on what governments can do with even the most personal data once they have it." - Keith Kirkpatrick, 4K Research & Consulting, LLC
Most people find all of this too difficult to solve, too much inconvience involved or think there’s no alternative (like “I have to run a business”). But, there’s good news: there ARE alternatives.
It’s not going to be easy. Maybe even hard’ish.
So aside from urging you to just kick your “smart”phone to the curb (yes, we kicked it), this edition will introduce you to 5 different solutions who say their phones protect your privacy and security.
- The Thriver
This Week's Tactic
Week #33 - How to Stop Your Phone from Attacking Your Sovereignty
Goal: Retake Control Over Your Personal Data
Skill Verb: Decentralize
Level: Hard
1. Bittium Tough Mobile™ C
Described as the world’s most secure communications solution, this phone, made in Finland comes with two operating systems. This dual OS setup allows for total data separation within the same device. The Bittium Tough Mobile™ C has been certified for CONFIDENTIAL and is used worldwide by government agencies and organizations with high security needs. The equally privacy-conscious user can switch between personal use (hardened Android) and CONFIDENTIAL use (Bittium Secure OS).
A more detailed review by TechRadar can be found here.
Price: starts at $1,500 (phone only)
2. Librem 5 USA
“If you want a smartphone built outside China and the walled gardens of Google and Apple, Purism’s Librem 5 USA may be for you.” – The Register
If there’s any device that should have a secure-as-possible supply chain it should be your phone. The Librem 5 USA is entirely produced and assembled by Purism in the United States. It uses it’s own Linux-based operating system (PureOS) and is recommended for anyone concerned with hardware backdoors and having a secure and ethical supply chain.
Judging from the various reviews out there the Librem 5 USA still has some beta level kinks to iron out (battery life, getting hot, some apps not working etc.).
Price: starts at $2,000 (phone only)
3. GSMK CryptoPhone
The company GSMK states that “security is not a state, but a process”. They started very early on in the protecting privacy game (you can tell by their website layout, LOL). But, “simplicity is the highest form of sophistication” it is said. So, if your focus is on simply protecting the privacy of your communication, the GSMK Cryptophone G10i+ can do that. With it’s classic flip-phone design anyone seeing you use it knows you’re doing some serious movin’ and shakin’. It’s still the smallest and lightest GSM phone on the market. Includes battery for up to 5 hours of secure talk time and 150 hours of stand-by time. Interestingly, no recent review could be discovered.
Price: starts at $3,000 (how to puchase is still a mystery)
4. KryptAll® K iPhone
Yes, they use iPhones (believe it or not), to build their “high level” privacy solution—but not without making changes to it. The final product is basically a modified hardened VoIP or model K iPhone loaded with encryption software that is connected to a global network of secure servers. While it’s impossible to verify the level of security, their clientele include Fortune 500 company leaders and government officials. You don’t have to change your current ITSP to access the KryptAll® network. And, the phone is delivered turn-key-ready and connected to their secure server network. According to this review, KryptAll®l guarantees that calls cannot be intercepted when the user is the target of a spy attack. This comes at a steep price tag of $3,500 and up! Is privacy priceless?
Price: $3,500
5. Fairphone 4
Finally, there’s Fairphone, focused on human convenience and environmental health. But who wants to make a choice between those two things?
That’s why it made the cut here. Having Google’s Android as its pre-installed OS is not necessarily a credential for privacy consciousness. But, for advanced users there is the option to unlock the bootloader and install a different one. Fairphone 4 has 5G capabilities. If that’s not desirable you can just stick with Fairphone 3 or 3+. Made from recycled materials and says it can last without the usual engineered obsolescence. And, if a part of the phone does fail it is (unlike most other phones) easy to open, order parts and replace it yourself. You can find a detailed review of the phone here.
Price: starts at $525 (Fairphone 3 phone)
TIP: Privacy has now become a very expensive (even priceless) commodity. And short of being chipped, (at present time) a phone is the ultimate tracking device. If you value privacy and freedom above all, you may want to consider ditching your smartphone altogether (me and my wife did). It’s entirely possible to have a post-smartphone existence. We’ll explore this (for many unfathomable idea) in detail in another issue soon!
Opportunity
In the meantime, here are few things you can do to reduce access to your personal data. However, some of these may be best done by a professional service or advanced smartphone user.
Get a Signal-Blocking Smartphone Pouch (Faraday Cage)
Turn Your Smartphone Into a Dumbphone (Instructions)
Install a secure operating system like GrapheneOS on Your Smartphone
Replace Your Smartphone with a Dumbphone (Research on Reddit & Youtube)
Turn Your Smartphone Into a Carbon Phone (surgically remove GPS tracker, cameras, and microphone)
Action Steps
Watch Video of Edward Snowden About Phone Surveillance
Learn about alternative privacy protecting smartphones
Replace or deGoogle/harden your existing smartphone
Or Ditch Your Smartphone Altogether
Thought
Words matter. Let’s analyze the word device for a moment.
By Google’s definition, a device is a contrivance or invention serving a particular purpose, especially a machine. A contrivance, BTW is defined as a mechanical device or a clever plan. Now, let’s break this down further:
The prefix de was inherited from French and Latin de meaning down, down from, from, off; or concerning. The word vice, according to Wikipedia means fault, sin, or wickedness. Now, if you combine the two words then it can be said that a device is literally from wickedness or a clever plan from wickedness!
Do you think the smartphone is a clever plan from wickedness?
Would love to hear your thoughts below!