Edward Snowden's OS of choice gets a major update

Post by Nadya » Wed, Jan 27, 2016, 7:48 PM UTC

plasticxme wrote: post #6

waspleg wrote: post #3

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That last point is far worse than you think. In my school the principal is entirely enamored with all things apple and google and wants to mandate certain staff have twitter accounts. This is unwittingly signing up lots of people for life long tracking. Although, many already do it to themselves with no thought whatsoever to what the repercussions are, or that there may even be any. Many other schools are even worse.

Tin foil hats a side, I assume it would be an account used only for professional reasons, allowing students to reach out to their teachers. However, if the teacher is incapable of separating personal life from work, there could be repercussions.

Post by anonbanker » Wed, Jan 27, 2016, 11:34 PM UTC

jakeogh wrote: post #12

anonbanker wrote: post #8

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Snowden has referred people to the CIA standards for secure telephones: Baseband limited to data only, VPN'ed into VoIP server to make/receive phone calls. I believe he was still using Android to do this. Any smart person would get a cheap chinese knock-off phone based on a MediaTek MT6592 with a bunch of RAM, install vanilla linux on it, and run YateClient or Plasma Mobile. Combined with VPN, data-only, and VoIP, th…

Any specific models in mind? I would love to run vanilla linux on my phone. Checking ebay, I see a few with 2GB (like UMI ZERO MT6592T), 4 would be really nice.