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cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

If you are a high value target, you should not carry normal phones made for normal people.

Its sad that none of the dumb phones were built with security in mind. Linux phones are the second best option, GrapheneOS and CalyxOS would be the least you should go.

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uis@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Modern crypto is often faster than old crypto. For example eliptic curve crypto in software is faster than AES in software

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- Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Is the old stuff beginning to break, or just slow?
  
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  - uis@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Kinda both
    
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rottingleaf@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

if someone tried to

Cryptography is what you yourself first need. Also - depends for what, if we are not using hardware acceleration. Encrypting text - yeah. Voice - may be more problematic.

Also consumer hardware and software is generally not designed to protect high value targets.

It’s intended for protection against crooks and hooligans, which is necessary for businesses, which is an incentive for vendors.

Providing protection against nation states is something which may even be considered a bad thing.

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- cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Maby it would be problematic for real time communication like voice when it comes to encryption but these phones do not even try to do text encryption bugs me.
  
  I think we should just feel okay to say “I dont know what advice to give you if you are targeted by a nation”
  
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  - le_saucisson_masquay@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    We know what snowden does, and this guy is targeted by the usa. Basically never use phone, only computer on ethernet running qubesos from external drive on computer bought with cash.
    
    It’s not a secret by now.
    
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le_saucisson_masquay@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Linux on phone is great for privacy but can you say that on security ?? It’s open source, not very popular. We’ve seen how it can go wrong recently.

Id put it in third after grapheneos. But the end result is that it’s not suitable anyway.

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- aniki@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Everything you typed here is wrong.
  
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  - le_saucisson_masquay@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Oh my god you’re so right. Thanks for enlightening us.
    
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    aniki@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    There’s no “us” – just your dumbass.
    
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- uis@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Do you understand what you say?
  
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