True for Android, iOS, and Windows. Linux is pretty good to go though with good opsec. Something like Debian with full disk encryption, and only FOSS software installed using DNSCrypt, and an encrypted VPN that blocks all non-VPN traffic is about as good as you’ll ever need. And is still a very functional computer. For a browser just make sure to use something like Librewolf, and not Google Chrome.
On a phone your best bet is gonna be Graphene OS and for messaging you can use Briar, or Matrix. Don’t put a SIM card in it, and keep a seperate phone to do calls and texts. At that point your more secure than most high profile people even.
It’s wild. I remember a younger gen z tell me (their tutor) that they had cheated on online university exams during COVID on WhatsApp. More secure than text messaging (end to end encryption) at least, but I made sure that they deleted the messages for everyone so I wouldn’t be forced to snitch.
No, unless you think them receiving funding between 2012-2016 through the Open Technology Fund (which is a nonprofit that receives/received grants from the federal United States Agency for Global Media) means they are ‘compromised’ lol.
Anyways I’d argue that if you’re worried about the US government compromising an E2E encrypted messaging app, you probably should be more worried about the fact that every telecomm company in the US is more than willing to bend over backwards and provide the US government with open access to every message/piece of data that is sent through their towers without needing any legal reason to do so, whereas Signal can only provide the telephone number associated with an account in response to a warrant because they literally don’t have anything else.
begging gen z to understand how text messaging works and to download signal or something lmao
Anything on your screen should be considered vulnerable. We need little esp32 based TOR devices or something.
True for Android, iOS, and Windows. Linux is pretty good to go though with good opsec. Something like Debian with full disk encryption, and only FOSS software installed using DNSCrypt, and an encrypted VPN that blocks all non-VPN traffic is about as good as you’ll ever need. And is still a very functional computer. For a browser just make sure to use something like Librewolf, and not Google Chrome.
On a phone your best bet is gonna be Graphene OS and for messaging you can use Briar, or Matrix. Don’t put a SIM card in it, and keep a seperate phone to do calls and texts. At that point your more secure than most high profile people even.
android is linux
you know what they mean, c’mon.
yeah but I like being pedantic
It’s wild. I remember a younger gen z tell me (their tutor) that they had cheated on online university exams during COVID on WhatsApp. More secure than text messaging (end to end encryption) at least, but I made sure that they deleted the messages for everyone so I wouldn’t be forced to snitch.
isn’t signal messenger compromised by the US government? might be misrembering
No, unless you think them receiving funding between 2012-2016 through the Open Technology Fund (which is a nonprofit that receives/received grants from the federal United States Agency for Global Media) means they are ‘compromised’ lol.
Anyways I’d argue that if you’re worried about the US government compromising an E2E encrypted messaging app, you probably should be more worried about the fact that every telecomm company in the US is more than willing to bend over backwards and provide the US government with open access to every message/piece of data that is sent through their towers without needing any legal reason to do so, whereas Signal can only provide the telephone number associated with an account in response to a warrant because they literally don’t have anything else.