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  • The video you posted 100% proves my point. Nothing in the video is security related, Its all privacy points. Getting attacked by scammers, phishing emails, phone calls etc are privacy threats, because you provided your main email, phone number etc where you should not/did not have to. I am saying again privacy is orders of magnitude bigger thread to a common person than an attacker spending resouces and targeting a random person. Please recognize that privacy and security are different things, people obsess with security when its a smaller threat to them.

    Non of the threats in the video would happen if people didnt share their lives, emails, phone numbers etc all online in plain sight. Non of the threats required an attacker to use a vulnerability to enter into pc/phone/network etc.

    Privacy - use email aliases for different websites, different phone numbers for 2FA, do not use social media or at least do not post all your life , real identity, email and a phone number on there etc

    Security - dont use no longer supported software, use an offline password manager, you still have no chance against 0 day vulnerabilities

    /for a good measure, i copied the link you posted and entered into piped.video, example of privacy.



  • Good info. I use e/OS on my old Samsung phone as a daily driver. I consider the phone to be a communication device, so have just couple of messenger apps there. All else is done on a PC so dont consider the security to be an issue. But its good to be aware of it. However, I think privacy is orders of magnitude bigger thread to a common person than an attacker spending resouces and targeting a random person. Sure, someone could attack me, but to get what? While google attacks privacy 24/7.





  • I see myself doing this when older. For now I am annoyed by social networks but a smartphone is good when traveling and for communication from abroad, so what I do is I do not put anything other on it just couple communications apps like signal, organic maps and thats pretty much it. No urge to check it 100x a day, only when needed so it stays in the bag most of the time.





  • Its a dumb phone, you insert a sim card and thats it. The telco will know where you are based on the sim connection to towers (as with any other phones) and all calls and texts are stored, but other than than you dont have to worry about anything else. I suppose you dont have to login to some account to make it work therefore even if it harvests any data, it does not know who it belongs to (no add ID) so not saleable. Its pretty easy, no real identity (through email, account, etc) attached to it = private.


  • mahony@lemmy.worldtoPrivacy@lemmy.mlLineageOS is not private
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    9 months ago

    It does not come with the Google Play Services and you dont have to log in to any account in order to use it. Its okay, a default for many other roms who build on it. Yes it uses google for AGPS etc but if google collects that data, who does it belong to? No Add ID, no Account, who´s phone is it?