Am I the only one who just considers the smartphone a spyware, non-secure device that constantly surveils you and is not your friend? I see people trying to jump over GrapheneOS, under the impression they have privacy or security. These devices are just, by design, detrimental to your privacy and security.
Don't store private keys. Don't use it for anything sensitive for your life. Accept it, since it is a must-have device in the modern world, but don't depend your life on it.
Do you seriously mean I should stop my addiction of taking pictures of my penis and sending them through Meta servers to strangers?
Smart phones ARE a Spyware. The 'phone' functionality got drifted away very badly since this modern era of 'Smart' things. Nowadays a lot of people do not even text or call any more in the traditional way using a SIM card. They only use the SIM card to access Messenger, WhatsApp, Telegram, what ever to use in the same way we had Skype and all the other Software before.
But people lack vision lately. You see them excited to have three additional cameras on their phones, including depth sensing cameras, 500x zoom, macro, what ever. This allows supervision better than ever before with voluntary ownership. If you get your finger close enough, the macro lens will capture your finger print in detail. If you record a superb view of the sea from your hotel balcony, the 500x zoom may catch the perfect frame of a couple having sex far away from you.
Three microphones. Six cameras. Finger print under the screen. Voice recognition. 'Artificial Intelligence' built in and some times impossible to uninstall. Being unable to initialize a phone with out accepting a very intrusive Privacy Policy first. Software coded in a way that it tracks your eyes or hand movement for particular 'gestures'. Et cetera. You could easily put these in an Orwellian scenario and it would fit just right.
Not to mention back doors and such. Or Google 'Safety Core', Google that one if you want a nice surprise. Graphene OS or Red Star OS, Smart phones are definitely not the place to store things you would want Secured. I rather have a laptop with my microphones, Wi-Fi and cameras unplugged. You could arguably do this with a mobile phone too and heat the board to remove the microphones and unplug the cameras. But then did you know that speakers can act as microphones and the other way around? Did you know there are many sensors in your phone that could gather a TON of information on you even if you take speakers, microphones and cameras out. See gyroscopes being used as microphones.
Simplicity is so much better.
