Doing everything to protect privacy online

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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

You should consider an older smartphone that is supported by Replicant OS which is an android rom entirely built on free software. There also is the Librem 5 which runs Pure OS and is built on open source hardware.

Point is, your dumbphone cannot encrypt messages and calls and still poses the same risk of triangulation as a smartphone. Your phone may also be built on propietary software so who knows what's happening in there.

[–]useless_aether 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

thank you, helpful info!

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Any mobile phone with a sim card will be pinging towers and giving your approx location to your carrier?

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[Edit: Faraday pouch]

Any phone with an active cell tower modem can be triangulated.

Librem 5 seems to fix this with a physical kill switch though.