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Hello guys. I recently acquired a Pixel 8A and it was Google stock os I bought it from a man locally all with cash I brought It home and I flashed grapheneos onto this phone.

What else needs to be done to anonymous this phone and make it a privacy phone and a spy free phone no tracking phone no interception phone and no monitored phone.

Any advice welcome!

Thanks.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Exactly. If you want to be 100℅ sure you don't get tracked AT ALL you can't use the internet.

The second you connect metadata is gained by ISP and all the servers which get called. This can be enough to track you down for powerful entities like the government.

If only your aunt may with a evening school IT course is your threat, a pin and graphene os is probably enough

Also OP mentioned his sim card is registered on his real life name, so having that connected to cellphones is enough to track you if you have a warrant to force your internet service provider to share the information

[–] [email protected] -4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Well yes, obviously. That's not something we need to be told.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Without trying to be mean, the generality with which op asks questions let's me think this need to be said

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ah yes if they don't specify that they understand that the Internet exists they need to be told it does

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"What else needs to be done to anonymous this phone and make it a privacy phone and a spy free phone no tracking phone no interception phone and no monitored phone."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Obviously they meant to the best of their ability. An air gapped device is clearly not what they wanted. If they did they wouldn't have asked.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Interpret it how you want. I think it is better to tell that an online phone will never fulfill this demands and risk stating the obvious than just mentioning things he can do and risk him feeling save and acting as the requirements where met, when they are really not

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"while you can never eliminate all risk online, you can..." Is a pretty reasonable way to help without sounding like...whatever this is. Arrogance?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Dude, that is literally what I did! to quote my original comment:

If you want to be sure you cant be tracked, monitored, spyed on, and calls can't be intersepted:

Don't ever connect it to WiFi and don't insert a sim card.

[Reasons why this is the case]

If you just want to decrease spying by companies and less powerful people:

[Things you can to anyway to increase privacy]

I don't know what your problem is honestly. Maybe my tone was off, if so thats on me, I am not a native speaker, but I really don't know why you are targeting me now with your quite harsh stellvertreterkrieg.... You are not even op, why are you so offended and talk me down?