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a Pixel 8 + graphene os (Looking for advice) (lemmy.today)

submitted 4 days ago by Ksk3829@lemmy.today to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Hey.

My phone is a Pixel 8A Graphene OS Phone. I Want to make this phone a Hardended phone. A safe phone. Privacy friendly phone. Not a Watched or tapped into phone. Basically limit the spying and intercepting and get control of the spying mechanisms that may be at play.

The phone has Sandboxed google.play services.

(grapheneos) and 1 profile (owner)

The phone has a kyc sim card. ( currently no way out)

Thanks.

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[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I have the exact same setup as you lol

You can also use the Aurora Store and not use appls from the playstore.

I also have a separate SIM in here from Redpocket. You could buy the $30 annual plan on ebay with a visa gift card or something to make it slightly more hard to trace you down. And ofc you can use Signal and no log kyc VPN to do your activities.

[–] Ksk3829@lemmy.today 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Can't use Redpocket. I'm in the UK. All require kyc since is in Europe. What should I do?

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 4 points 4 days ago

If you use Signal, they don't collect your information at all. I believe it's only your phone number, registration date, and last time you pinged their servers. They don't get any messages you send.

As for mail, I think this one's a tricky bastard but if you use VPN, something like protonmail won't receive anything on their end, maybe some metadata from when you sent the email though, and assuming the other person is also using protonmail or pgp encryption.

I personally also have a threat model outlined and have 2 phones. One cheap flip phone with my redpocket sim which I use for government and banking stuff. My tmobile phone is for anything else, like friends and social stuff. Maybe you could have the same thing set up.

[–] Thorned_Rose@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

And Obtainium for open source apps. I use Aurora only for apps I can't get via Obtainium.