Top 6 Android Privacy Tips
6) Don't use or give out your SIM card's real phone number.
Instead, use VoIP (internet -to-> regular phone) with a VPN. This appears in calls or texts to be a regular number, but hides your location from the cell tower. Only use your real underlying SIM card for getting data.
5) Don't literally buy the phone in your real name.
The IMEI hardware identifier then is following you around, and defeats the purpose of VoIP. We offer Pixel phones prices below Google's official store for Monero or Bitcoin. It can then eSIM with digital crypto plans, or cash for a physical SIM.
4) Use a burner Crypto Service for account sign-ups.
We now have a new SMS exchange where you can get non-VoIP P2P confirms, that appear to the service as a random number. This avoids you paying a monthly fee (it's a single time), bypasses restrictions, and seperates each account from you, your SIM, or the VoIP you talk to your family/friends on. And best of all, there's options to restore it later on in an emergency. See SimplifiedPrivacy.net
3) See if your bank offers YubiKey.
Bank of America allows you to declare you're "going abroad" and switch from SMS confirm, to YubiKey. But they never check if you actually leave. This means you can avoid maintaining a real SMS line to bypass their VoIP tests. If you buy an SMS Zelle confirm from the exchange, then the seller can't access your bank account without both the password and the yubikey sign. That's wayy more secure than even an SMS line you own.
2) Abuse Shared Cell Tower IPs
When you connect to a cell tower, you're sharing the same IP address as every other user of that tower. This means even if your VPN is really logging, or compromised by memory dumps at the datacenter, there is still an anonymity pool. As our previous content has repeated, Mullvad is Sweden, has really no ability to stop M247's US servers from a memory dump. Their "in memory" routine is really propaganda, if being in memory is the problem itself.
But when you use a VPN on your home ethernet, the VPN provider can identify you and you alone. If you re-use that same VPN subscription when you're at home (only your household on that IP), and when you're on the tower (sharing it with your entire city), you undo the magic of celltower's shared IPs.
That's why I'm so excited about the 1.5 euro quick burner plans from our VPN with accomplished Nostr-verified operators. The web panel could not make it faster or easier to use Monero or Bitcoin, and get an isolated sub for mobile. And you could even use one operator for your home like a router, and another for android. You only need one location for a router! See web.hydraveil.net
1) Switch to a Degoogled OS
You really can't get meaningful privacy if your entire operating system is compromised. By default both iPhone and stock Android do Wifi triangulation and Apple/Google share the notifications with the US government.
I hate to give you the bad news, but it kinda defeats the purpose of freedom tech, if the government and Big Tech are the ones who really own your Bitcoin and Nostr keys. You heard the saying "All your base belong to us"? He was talking about stock Google.
Master Yoda said in the Last Jedi, "Pass along what you have learned". I word it, "When you explain a concept, you actually learn it. Repost this so you can easily find it and act on it."
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