Smol brain : degoogle Galaxy brain : rip and tearing all the sensors, mmc and chipset into a jar of holy water and compiling TempleOS directly from the bible
@@SaucyJack97 Yes but you can get a non-smart phone. I have a old nokia, just for making/getting calls for work. I was referring to smartphones in my comment
The worst part is that even if you go through all the steps, you end up with a private phone that can't really do anything or else you get compromised. For us to reclaim our privacy, the entire system, the apps, cellular network, wireless connection, the entire web would need to be fundamentally rebuilt with focus on privacy and then be able to compete against superior prioprietary solutions that get their advantage from collecting data and other shady/malicious functionalities, drive all the customer interest to that new privacy focused system and then we would need to make sure it stays that way in a world where 95% people don't care about their privacy at all.
@@jackiehen2198 saying you dont care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is the same as saying you dont care about free speech because you have nothing to say - Edward Snowden why would i waive my right naively trusting my government that they not gonna hurt me ? also whos to decide who is a criminal and who is not ? law is so complicated that anyone could eventually be a criminal without knowing it, are you 100% sure you never broke any law ? also how about if you live in an authoritarian country, would you trust your government if you lived in Iran ?
Yes, it's infuriating how every normie that you talk to about this topic will eventually say something like "I have nothing to hide anyway", but it's not true and we all know it's not true, everyone has some kind of private information that the wouldn't want shared. It's just a lazy excuse in order to avoid the realization that: Nr. 1 something needs to be done Nr. 2 you are the one who has to do it
In the comic _Private Eye_ , a cataclysmic leak causes society as a whole to swear off the internet. If someone maintains private infrastructure long enough for this to happen, they’re in the money!
Realistically, for us to reclaim our privacy, the entire system of mass info tech would need to be destroyed, which is fortunately at the very least more likely than getting it rebuilt - but for as long as it persists, I'm glad there are more adept technomancers around to help us keep up at least some semblance of privacy 🙏🏻
It's horrible how much effort is now required just in order to practice the rights we're already supposed to have. As much as how everybody seems to put up with this level of intrusion in personal life that the big tech companies and governments are responsible for.
To be fair the whole system generates personally identifiable data, what governments do with cell phones is sniff logs and make it mandatory to have ID to get a SIM card in some places, if they didn’t do that it still wouldn’t be very secure or anonymous…
Nobody is tracking you in real time, it's too expensive. Average traffic for the user now reaches 50-200GB per month. 1 minute of the call is nearly 5 megabytes. Imagine storing all of that just to know you got nothing. In most cases it's only possible to get in court with some kind of evidence provided by big tech + billing with few calls. American government spent their money on management raises, not the actual hardware or software. Cherry picking was the key and it works. It's much easier to produce mass trash traffic with seal and doggo videos traffic and calls to your parents, leaving phone on the table at home if you're planning to hide somewhere, launching youtube on pc and autoplaying videos. In that case you have stronger evidence of presence for the court than spending enormous amount of time trying to hide. Plus if you remember 2016 Comey was 100% sure he was safe when talking to other people and he still got caught easily by advancing technology, he was using old "safe" channels to communicate.
@@stryderx1 calls use ungodly compression. It's much less than 5mb. But yes they don't store data. Only metadata. Which is trivial in size. Stuff like dns queries for the internet and location data for phones. That's just text. Costs nothing to store. If you want proof that they're doing it: in may 2020 italy decided to go back and see records for the year to see how effective lockdown was at keeping people inside. They didn't start recording after the fact, because they had the data going back to the previous year. They're always recording location data on phones. Maybe aggregated maybe not. But i assure you that taking records of location data once every 15-30 minutes is extremely easy. It's just text that can be easily compressed down to 10% size or less. The storage requirements are tiny (for a corporation/state entity) for years worth of metadata. And metadata is more often than not where the juicy things are. Like exif metadata on a picture. The picture is what you want, the exif metadata is what the state would want
The only things stopping me from not bothering with phones at all are 1. 2FA 2. If my car breaks down I need a way to call assistance. I could just keep a prepaid phone under the seat I guess and have it turned off until needed. 3. Mom & Dad.
for 2fa/mfa, use an android virtual machine (that means "emulator" if any normies are reading this) on a PC or even on a pre-m1 mac (one that has an Intel chip). P.S., for any normies reading who are about to type "but it doesn't have a phone number for 2fa!!" you'll have to use app authentication MFA, not SMS MFA, obviously, but app authentication is far more secure anyway and can be done on a wider range of devices and without tracking by google/microsoft/apple. P.P.S. (edit): actually, I just remembered, there may be browser-based android VMs that can be used on newer macs, but the privacy/security is questionable; also, at least in my case, Aptoide doesn't seem to work on my m1 mac anymore; so, overall, my original points still apply. I hope this advice helps.
Just a note to others that (most) forms of satellite radio don't have a privacy risk as he alluded to. They are transmit-only schemes where the satellites have no idea where you are and just transmit decryption keys to you based on the key baked into your receiver.
Make one silly move, From they got your phone number and your phone is on, You’re over with, happend to my friend before, Every cell tower you pass they know you’re in that area, so they just narrow it down real quick.
@@keylanoslokj1806 no, the video briefly mentioned satellite radio, and it being a privacy risk. I was just correcting that section. I agree with 100% of the rest of the video in regards to cell phones.
Worked at a telecom company for 5 years, learnt all I needed to learn about data privacy there. I basically have 20 sim cards that I switch in and out every 7 days. All registered using different names. Used senior and junior level access from different users to create these as I didn't want my own user account to be tied to any of them(these people don't even try and safeguard their credentials) Purchase prepaid data from vendors across the city and such. Is fun because everytime I move to another company and they request phone records all they see is random data with no definitive things standing out.
Once you have used a phone thats tracked to your name they have your voice. They can identify you ANY WHERE your voice is heard. They can also use your voice in calls to others
It is increasingly difficult in the UK to get prepaid phones. Typical way is to buy cheap handsets from supermarkets or Argos. SIM cards can be got for £1 from places like Poundland. Main issue is that all networks "pre-enroll" you to pay monthly, so you have to keep topping up your account each month. You can get top up vouchers from supermarkets and convenience stores. Like everything in the UK, the government are trying to make it illegal to buy a phone without showing ID.
@@ZGFyZG8g even worse in germany. You have to show ID to buy a sim and then to activate it the carrier wants your address, they send a letter to you with a code that can be used to finally activate your phone.
I served on jury duty; how much info the PD's divisions can dig up on someone is mind-blowing. They are incredibly sophisticated. I always considered them like the Keystone Cops, but this couldn't be farther from the truth.
This type of invasion used to be against the law and is actually still unconstitutional in so many ways. We, the people, need to make a stand for our rights.
If one were to follow someone around, watch them inside their house, etc... they'd go to jail or at least get a restraining order. We need to tar and feather people who do the digital equivalent of that.
Kek, no kidding. Time to invest in tinfoil, soon enough they have the tech to read your brain through your phone. I fucking hate this timeline so fucking much FUCK
Phones are inherently intrusive due to how they operate, so it's best just to keep the privacy and security at a reasonable level and separate your public and private life.
Honestly I've never cared enough to do all those steps to protect my data because it was never really used actively against you but as that is changing with things like changing credit scores based on the content of your private messages probably will become more common these kind of steps will become essential
@@maxemore oh i meant insurance customer scores to decide how much of a risk you are and how much you pay but same with credit too if this goes too far
I think if things keep developing this way in the future I'm just going to stop using technology for anything. I would like to see them track my message history when I have none
@@Ypog_UA You won't be able to separate yourself from technology unless you completely isolate yourself in the forest for the rest of your life. And honestly, what kind of life is that? I totally understand your desire to go off the grid, I can definitely relate, but it's becoming more and more difficult to live a life worth living while also swearing off tech. You'd literally need to become Amish and become self-sufficient living on a farm, and even then, the city roads will still have cameras and satellites will still be able to see your property. I understand how you feel though, I feel that way about cars - I've always been a computer guy but the computerization of cars is making me want to protest anything newer than a 2006 and just drive something from the 1960's that I know beyond a shadow of a doubt I have 100% complete and total control over. I want to know with certainty that my car isn't connecting to the internet and updating itself, and I absolutely don't need my car pulling me over when a cop turns on their lights behind me, or the vehicle's GPS tracking me, or self-driving camera tech recording everything it sees. The only problem is, newer cars are dramatically safer and older cars will become less and less reliable by the year as more and more miles are put on them by their current owners. They'll become more and more scarce until it is cost prohibitive to have a purely mechanical car. Or, more realistically, it will become illegal to drive a purely mechanical car, for "safety" reasons. It really is some Orwellian 1984 Big Brother type shit our society is heading towards. Not even heading "towards," though, because we've already got our foot in the door. We're going to be tracked and monitored 24/7 in every facet of our lives until 1. we have an armed uprising, 2. a solar coronal mass ejection wipes out 99% of earth's tech infrastructure, or 3. our species is eradicated either by its own stupidity or a random cataclysmic event like an asteroid or gamma ray burst.
Another good tip... Watch out for CCTV. If you have no choice to buy from a vendor that has CCTV, then don't use the simcard or phone for six months. Don't even put it on. Secondly, when you go buy phone and SIM, leave your phone at home, as it can be tracked. If you have a modern car it probably has GPS tracking as well, so use the public transport if you can. And NEVER turn the WiFi or Bluetooth on. Like never. My private phone actually had me open it up and physically damage the WiFi and Bluetooth chip. But do that at your own risk.
Yeah... this is legit the hardest part of going private but being connected irl. Hard to live without my super cheap employee discount unlimited data 😭
@@StayKwimp_ ach yeah but even then is that enoguh? What about my home broad band connection? I can abandoned windows but then shouldn't I dns block google, AWS, Microsoft etc? Access yt devoid of Google api etc. Otherwise is it only worth doing half the battle?
Imagine being paid in data. I would tell my employer to shove the data up his ass depending on how unhinged I feel that day. Give me money, that I can choose to spend on whatever I want because I'm not a goddamn slave.
Might have to go off the grid at this point with shit like Amazon's SIdewalk service keeping their devices literally always connected and transmitting data to their servers if they're even close enough to another compatible device.
You should add "in the USA" to the title, because for example in Poland it's nigh-impossible to do so due to the mandatory prepaid card registration that includes stuff like your name and your PESEL (PESEL is roughly like the US SSN).
The problem with used phones is that you have no idea what kind of questionable activities the previous owner could've been involved in. The phone could be secretly tracked in an official investigation without your (or the previous owner's) knowledge, and then you are caught up in that dragnet.
The feds will know if the phone was invloved in illegal activities, and if you bought it off of craigslist 2nd hand, thr most they might end up doing is seizing it. But yes the tracking part would fuck things up.
as a teen i had a lot of times my imei read by police in a stop, i wasn't doing anything wrong they just thought i might have stole it since up until 2015 there weren't any safeguards in android phones that prevented you from getting away with stealing someone's phone. these days they are not doing it anymore or atleast i haven't heard of it happening
I remember about 5-6 years ago trying to use my iphone in Manhattan for GPS and it would always think I’m on the wrong block or a street over. Now it’s always super accurate.
Well, this is very good for improving privacy and hiding your private data from tech giants. However, hiding from the government wouldn't be 100% guaranteed. As long as the phone is at a place where it's there for most of the time then that place would be considered as your main residence place aka your home. This would make it easier for the government to track you since the cellular tower you connect to most of the time is known. This leads to the feds being able to narrow down your location and make them able to set up IMSI catchers and scan the whole area. They will be able to narrow down the location of the phone to a small area and from there try and do more stuff to find you. However, this scenario applies to people who are on the top of the wanted list and worth the effort.
@Alb Don Yeah and hope you have a good social score so papa China doesn't f**k you... You forgot the main point of doing this which is liberty.. You want us to live in a shit distopian world just like 1984 no wonder the government doesn't want a second George Orwell
While there are USB modems which can take a sim card, you would need to isolate the host device which you are connecting the modem to in order to maintain the level of OpSec he described. I can't find any USB-C or micro-B modems, only USB-A. It seems like Huawei modems can make (and possibly receive) calls through the COM port and another program. However, all modems, both embedded and external (and don't use CDMA because that uses an MEID), require an IMEI from the device and the IMSI from the sim card. I'd imagine obtaining the portable modem surreptitiously and maintaining the level of security while connecting it to an existing device would be much harder than getting some $50 used phone in another city. I also don't know what information these programs would need to send through the modem to initiate the connection. If you just need to make calls and texts, your best bet is a feature phone from the gas station bought with cash dressed in aviators and a siege mask.
There are the Linux phones (Phinephone whatever) with physical switches to turn off the communication devices. But even that is not optimal. Better ditch the phone and have a laptop or something with you. But then your down to mails etc. It is like we are being fooled into having tracking devices on us 24/7. And not knowing it.
But still they will know the general area you live and where you go based on where the phone is when you do use it (hypothetically), even if you only take it out of the faraday cage to use it. This is why we must return to monke
NEVER call 911 from your cellphone unless YOU (or child etc I guess) will 100% die if you don't. Not smart to call them at all, but if you do, at least use their non emergency number so they're not automatically pulling your phase 2 location from CAD. Sincerely, your friendly neighborhood former call taker/dispatcher.
@@pierreghazarian6087 maybe europe or some shit. Only thing I know of in the states is some places have requirements where you must help LE if their in a life or death situation.
Or you could just ditch your cell phone, or keep one for only what you need and keep that in a faraday cage most of the time. The problem is more than just that our digital lives are tracked, it's that too much of our lives are digital.
Basically all prepaid phones make you pay monthly or yearly now. I've looked into it. Cause I don't use data often. I still have to for the service yearly even if I have a bunch of extra minutes still... When I was younger you bought the phone and could just add minutes when you need them. No subscription needed.
@@ibnal-sindhi5628 Why? Got beef with him? he's probably one of my favorite tech youtubers very privacy focused and shares an uncensored view of privacy with the world spares no details and provides a very judgement free perspective on privacy
@@justananimefan1570 No beef, it's just his content is cringe. You seriously don't know how to buy a burner phone? You really what to learn infosec? Go watch some HackerSploit videos.
Also, if you have a newer phone that supports esim, you could get multiple networks operational on the phone, so you could confuse the glowies by swapping back and fourth. Or alternatively, you could illegally operate an LTE network you built yourself in order to be the only person on that network, therefore you would control all traffic in or out of the device.
I would rather go late 80s or early 90s. All the computer crap began around 94, if you want to avoid computers in general. I don't remember which year exactly. I don't know when the tracking began, but probably in the 2000s, I assume. Anyway, if it's from the early 90s and made in Japan, it's probably good.
@@censoredterminalautism4073 Tracking? Cars? I mean sure today cars do that. But around 90s the only computers where the engine and what? ABS? And there are real merits to have the engine managed by computers. But around 2000-2010 it turned into a shit show. And 1990-2020 computers was trying to cheat there way around emissions ruining engines. So if anything you at best should delete any emission stuff. But that is actually agents the law and do pollute more. But there are some emission stuff down right stupid that wear the engines out faster. But today the damage is done already. So kinda pointless. All in the name of convenience. And "saving the planner" by cheating or doing some stupid shit to get to that goal. Like putting excuse gas back into the engine and making it EVEN more dirty and such. Hurting and clogging up the internals. Or now in modern day stop and start systems wearing out the engines faster. Just to cheat MPG and emission numbers.
I always thought that we can make the internet censorship-proof & privacy-respecting But, what about the access??? We need to be able to make our own connections to the internet easily for free without ISPs Since, IoT is becoming more invasive& forced down our throats
In our country, Philippines they passed a law called sim card registration which requires you to give your ID to them and put it in a database. I always warned people but they just said that its for scammers. 😢
yet another banger, Outlaw. could you make a video on QubesOS in the future and break it down on if it's truly a Snowden-OS style bastion of privacy and security, or if it's moreso just a flashy gimmick with a few random haphazardly implemented privacy features? thanks!
And my question is, what do you use this phone for? If you use it for your private life, well it'll be extremely difficult since it's gonna be down most of the time. Also if you use it to call your friends and family I don't think it'll be that hard to track you back since their phones probably are very low on privacy and have access to the call history. I don't see the point on having a private phone unless you're on the run, trying to avoid a stalker, protect yourself from a dangerous situation, etc. What are the non illegal uses for a private phone like this that it makes it worth keeping? I'm really interested in your answers.
Always good to have some phones. If ur legit as legit it still stops u from being harassed all the time, stalked scams irs harassment calls etc etcn lets u leave business/work or acquaintances out of ur personal chill time when u want
i dumped my cell phone and strictly use my private metal can and string communication device. no GPS and i can see whos on the other end of the string.
Not sure if this is sarcastic way of telling ppl that staying anonymous basically means not using any modern tech features or just regular video. If it's case 2 then you forgot about voice modulation. Your voice is something like your fingerprint and can be easily analysed from frequency spectrum.
If companies were personally liable when they use less than adequate security measures with their databases and our data is stolen, it would get buttoned up real quick.
serious question: what are the benefits of a private phone if one wouldn't be able to do any of the usual stuff? like, what would be its practical use(s)?
serious answer: behind every funny comment in this comment section there is a person with some seriously bad intentions/business. Like. Seriously. Bad.
Honesty with all the limitations and how easy it is to get found might as well not carry a phone. I’d imagine if you do this and say give a family member a ride they’ll see the two phones and be able to establish a connection that way as well. Lots to think about.
Serbia is a safehaven for privacy! One of the thing is, you can buy a sim card for 2 bucks and put in as much as you want, activate data or a plan for like 3-5 bucks (you gotta pay cash) and you can do it at any store.
or people are genuinely disinterested in things like extreme-uber-privacy and just want a new phone that Just Works™ i know that youtube is complete shit with a lot of things but this is bordering on paranoia
The one thing I did find confusing is the whole “purchasing a new phone from the manufacturer and paying with cash”. How can you do that unless you physically live near them (e.g. Samsung or OnePlus)?
@@env0x ebay isn't great because your account is linked to you, and they mail it to you, or your PO box which is linked to you. Craigslist, in person, best buy with cash, etc. Best buy will have cameras though so maybe wear a hat, wig, makeup, whatever. Plus they likely don't keep their footage for that long so you should be hard enough to find. But yeah, only 100% solution is don't have a phone.
buy a phone with cash, or from ebay with a prepaid debit card acquired with cash and mailed to an inaccurate name and residence that is not your own.. or any other way to buy a used/cheap phone buy prepaid sim card with cash (US only etc.) don’t connect to your networks or smart devices, don’t input personal information/email addresses that can be uploaded when the phone is connected online, if possible get an old model of phone
So basically if we are required to register the SIM card with our full name and an ID card, we're screwed :q It's terrifying however when you think how many people don't take even the simplest measures to keep their privacy.
In my country, the introduction of an ID law on SIM cards led to two developments: One, a somewhat flourishing grey market of grandfathered cards activated before the law came into effect. You also had to provide a name and address under the old legislation, which however nobody has verified and that are often fakes. Two, vendors on marketplaces like eBay popping up mass-selling prepaid cards already activated under their own identity, just barely begging that you re-activate them as soon as possible. Also, things like harmonized EU roaming which allows you to get a number in a country like the Netherlands without such restrictions and use such a card mostly like a domestic one (with certain limitations e.g. on mobile data), at least where a foreign number is accepted.
@@D0Samp Unfortunately it won't work in my country, because even if you have an old SIM card, they deactivated it in 3 months after the regulations have been introduced, and now you _have_ to register it with your full name or else it isn't accepted by the network. Another thing is that more and more cellphones have the so-called eSIM (embedded SIM), which is basically a SIM card chip soldered directly to the motherboard of your cellphone, and you can't even swap it. It's pinned to your device forever. The operator can reprogram it remotely when you register in order to connect you to the network, but you can't. They basically own you, whether you like it or not, and if you don't, you don't have access to the network. And you need the access to the network if you want to use your bank account etc., because now, "thanks" to EU regulations, you can't have a bank account if you don't have a cellphone. They require it to open an account, they require it to log in, and they require it for money transfers.
@@justamango942 Yes. Wecome to the New World Order :q And if you don't have that in your country, you'll probably have it soon too. They introduce such bullshit here and there so that people implementing the "not on my backyard" approach didn't figure it out until it's too late.
in France, there's LycaMobile which is pretty much available to buy everywhere you go, they give you SMS+Calls and some gigabytes of data for cheap (cheapest plan is ~10€), heck, even in some weird barber shops. Cheapest plan: - 4,99€ a month for 3 months then 9,99€ a month - 20 GB of data - Unlimited SMS & Calls - Free international calls to 50 places (incl. US, UK, Canada, China) - UE Roaming You can also use the xPrivacyLua XPosed module to spoof and/or disable sensors. For XPosed, I recommend using these Magisk modules: - Riru - Riru - LSPosed (XPosed replacement) and other essentials such as: - Busybox for Android NDK - ExSDCard Access Enabler
Here in serbia you can just go to any kiosk and just buy a sim card for like 4 or 5$ witha weel of free internet and phone calls, and you can just pay cash to add credit on it, thats what i have been doing for the past 8 years or so.
So, if the cell company sees a new phone on its towers that it doesn't have a profile for, that's not going to send up a flag after few weeks? Also, the meta data from using the phone normally would show up pretty quickly. A good video none the less.
Realistically, the best way to hide is to blend in, a.k.a doing good opsec and feeding the databases with enough selected info so it doesn't look suspicious.
They can’t after the contract is up and it’s long been expelled out their plan, so when you buy unlocked rather than locked to whatever cellular towers the prepaid carrier is based off of.
This just popped up on my feed very interesting stuff Good information but again we’re always connected n there’s no privacy at all anymore…doing all these thing’s really is to no avail….good luck everyone N merry Christmas
making sure4your phone doesn't connect to your home wifi is pointless... The network adapters of the phone will ping your router and vice versa just as a result of being in the vicinity... this is how they can triangulate your device even if it is turned off.. buy a phone with a removeable battery if you can find one
@@tubeguy4066 you've got to take measures to ship anonymously like sending it to the empty house the next neighborhood over and paying the local crackhead to retrieve it and do a dead drop. A lot of dark net drug forms have guides on how to securely ship stuff.
I'm on the FBI watchlist for suspected domestic terrorism, which is just a fancy way of saying I prize my freedom. So naturally someone who knows me well recommended your channel.
I watched a murder trial and the killer had a burner phone, he only called his wife from it once. He got 25 years for that call..One mistake and you're done.
You missed a very important aspect Never call friends or family from this phone. Because of Contact Tracing And once friends & family have this new number, your anonymity is gone
Use encrypted phone cals with people you know an of course a hardend version of signal,thor browser on mobiam with seLinux and system firewall.and a burnner phone number for the rest.
I feel like I'm being put on several three letter agency suspicion lists just from watching your videos.
That's just being paranoid, bro.
Tell them to glow harder
@@N.S.A. friendly reminder that fedposting is still shitposting
@@excitableboy7031 they glow in the dark
ya,,,trust your gut instinct
It’s actually so fucked that a “free” citizen has to go to these lengths to have a private phone call
Who told you, you are free?
this doesn’t cover phone calls unless you’re making a call to another private phone and are both using physical voice modulators
and if you do all of these, then youre gonna be tracked more closely
Freedom isn't free.
It’s not the government it’s the private corporations who want to mine your data
Smol brain : degoogle
Galaxy brain : rip and tearing all the sensors, mmc and chipset into a jar of holy water and compiling TempleOS directly from the bible
I did that but first I reimplemented the bible in holyC
lmao
You have found The Way
"from the bible" lmao
Recoding drivers in holyc takes a lot of work. You have to code the hell out of it.
Its just nice to know that other people are concerned about this issue. I got rid of my phone a year ago, Its nice to know I am not the crazy one
Most people still need a phone tho
@@SaucyJack97 Yes but you can get a non-smart phone. I have a old nokia, just for making/getting calls for work. I was referring to smartphones in my comment
I leave mine home since I only make calls through wifi
The worst part is that even if you go through all the steps, you end up with a private phone that can't really do anything or else you get compromised. For us to reclaim our privacy, the entire system, the apps, cellular network, wireless connection, the entire web would need to be fundamentally rebuilt with focus on privacy and then be able to compete against superior prioprietary solutions that get their advantage from collecting data and other shady/malicious functionalities, drive all the customer interest to that new privacy focused system and then we would need to make sure it stays that way in a world where 95% people don't care about their privacy at all.
@@jackiehen2198 saying you dont care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is the same as saying you dont care about free speech because you have nothing to say - Edward Snowden
why would i waive my right naively trusting my government that they not gonna hurt me ? also whos to decide who is a criminal and who is not ? law is so complicated that anyone could eventually be a criminal without knowing it, are you 100% sure you never broke any law ? also how about if you live in an authoritarian country, would you trust your government if you lived in Iran ?
Yes, it's infuriating how every normie that you talk to about this topic will eventually say something like "I have nothing to hide anyway", but it's not true and we all know it's not true, everyone has some kind of private information that the wouldn't want shared. It's just a lazy excuse in order to avoid the realization that:
Nr. 1 something needs to be done
Nr. 2 you are the one who has to do it
In the comic _Private Eye_ , a cataclysmic leak causes society as a whole to swear off the internet. If someone maintains private infrastructure long enough for this to happen, they’re in the money!
Realistically, for us to reclaim our privacy, the entire system of mass info tech would need to be destroyed, which is fortunately at the very least more likely than getting it rebuilt - but for as long as it persists, I'm glad there are more adept technomancers around to help us keep up at least some semblance of privacy 🙏🏻
Most people don't care, I've told my friends how easy it is to get spied on and even given them homemade USBs with tails and they never use them :s
Dude, I cannot thank you enough for these videos
To the chase, no ads, no bs
God speed
Well thank you for continuing to inform us on these things and sacrificing your future credit score!
My goal is to have the worst score possible. I'm well on my way lol...
my social credit score is in the negatives
@@BobBarkerScientificHeretic
Based
Stay tuned!
NEXT WEEK ON MENTAL OUTLAW:
"How to reset your credit score without giving any personal information"
@@АбеНиш coming up :
How to save money using stolen credit cards
It's horrible how much effort is now required just in order to practice the rights we're already supposed to have. As much as how everybody seems to put up with this level of intrusion in personal life that the big tech companies and governments are responsible for.
To be fair the whole system generates personally identifiable data, what governments do with cell phones is sniff logs and make it mandatory to have ID to get a SIM card in some places, if they didn’t do that it still wouldn’t be very secure or anonymous…
Most people have no idea about the risks _or_ the importance of not sharing all your personal details with the government.
How to use a phone privately
Step 1: Don't. Don't ever use a phone and you won't be tracked using it. That is the only 100% effective solution
Abstinence be like
use a brick
Nobody is tracking you in real time, it's too expensive. Average traffic for the user now reaches 50-200GB per month. 1 minute of the call is nearly 5 megabytes. Imagine storing all of that just to know you got nothing. In most cases it's only possible to get in court with some kind of evidence provided by big tech + billing with few calls.
American government spent their money on management raises, not the actual hardware or software. Cherry picking was the key and it works.
It's much easier to produce mass trash traffic with seal and doggo videos traffic and calls to your parents, leaving phone on the table at home if you're planning to hide somewhere, launching youtube on pc and autoplaying videos. In that case you have stronger evidence of presence for the court than spending enormous amount of time trying to hide.
Plus if you remember 2016 Comey was 100% sure he was safe when talking to other people and he still got caught easily by advancing technology, he was using old "safe" channels to communicate.
@@stryderx1 calls use ungodly compression. It's much less than 5mb. But yes they don't store data. Only metadata. Which is trivial in size. Stuff like dns queries for the internet and location data for phones. That's just text. Costs nothing to store. If you want proof that they're doing it: in may 2020 italy decided to go back and see records for the year to see how effective lockdown was at keeping people inside. They didn't start recording after the fact, because they had the data going back to the previous year. They're always recording location data on phones. Maybe aggregated maybe not. But i assure you that taking records of location data once every 15-30 minutes is extremely easy. It's just text that can be easily compressed down to 10% size or less. The storage requirements are tiny (for a corporation/state entity) for years worth of metadata. And metadata is more often than not where the juicy things are. Like exif metadata on a picture. The picture is what you want, the exif metadata is what the state would want
@@stryderx1 "no one is tracking you"
Top kek
The only things stopping me from not bothering with phones at all are
1. 2FA
2. If my car breaks down I need a way to call assistance. I could just keep a prepaid phone under the seat I guess and have it turned off until needed.
3. Mom & Dad.
How old are you ?
You can use a Yubi key to get around 2FA
for 2fa/mfa, use an android virtual machine (that means "emulator" if any normies are reading this) on a PC or even on a pre-m1 mac (one that has an Intel chip).
P.S., for any normies reading who are about to type "but it doesn't have a phone number for 2fa!!" you'll have to use app authentication MFA, not SMS MFA, obviously, but app authentication is far more secure anyway and can be done on a wider range of devices and without tracking by google/microsoft/apple.
P.P.S. (edit): actually, I just remembered, there may be browser-based android VMs that can be used on newer macs, but the privacy/security is questionable; also, at least in my case, Aptoide doesn't seem to work on my m1 mac anymore; so, overall, my original points still apply.
I hope this advice helps.
If only my friends communicated through radio using enigma encrypted messages...they just wanna use WhatsApp.
I have been fortunate to get some friends into ham radio. It is not the most private, but it is much more so than any phone.
I just deleted my whatsapp account a couple of months ago and said to all my friends that if they want to message me, download signal.
so im not the only one
You need better friends.
@@tylerdean980 Anyone with a radio can listen to your transmissions.
Just a note to others that (most) forms of satellite radio don't have a privacy risk as he alluded to. They are transmit-only schemes where the satellites have no idea where you are and just transmit decryption keys to you based on the key baked into your receiver.
Make one silly move, From they got your phone number and your phone is on, You’re over with, happend to my friend before, Every cell tower you pass they know you’re in that area, so they just narrow it down real quick.
@@jondough7589 Yes, you are right in regards to cell phones. I was just saying that (most) satellite radio does not have these same concerns.
@@joshuavillwo yeah but the video is about private phones. And i assume preferably smartphones so that you can do online activities as well
@@keylanoslokj1806 no, the video briefly mentioned satellite radio, and it being a privacy risk. I was just correcting that section. I agree with 100% of the rest of the video in regards to cell phones.
Me, following all the steps. 5 minutes later: Knock, knock, FBI... open up: You're the only one in a 500 km2 radius that bought a Librem 5.
lol
im sure in my country too everyone has a librem5 too
Radii are lengths, and km^2 is a measure of area.
@@someonehere4380 Which country?
@@anonymgamer3416 this is sarcastic obviously
Worked at a telecom company for 5 years, learnt all I needed to learn about data privacy there. I basically have 20 sim cards that I switch in and out every 7 days. All registered using different names. Used senior and junior level access from different users to create these as I didn't want my own user account to be tied to any of them(these people don't even try and safeguard their credentials)
Purchase prepaid data from vendors across the city and such.
Is fun because everytime I move to another company and they request phone records all they see is random data with no definitive things standing out.
I have hacked you and now I know you live in America
@@alewis7041 cool story Mr Lewis.
what good does it do t o switch sim cards when your ime number stays?
@@alewis7041 your comment made my day. ;)
This man doesn’t get personalised ads at all 😂
I love computers, but the idea of becoming amish is getting more and more compelling...
Yeah. They were right
Based and amishpilled
Then your kids will escape and show up on a TLC program on how they escape that "anti" society life style.
@@rufuspub I am going to make my own Amish lifestyle, with Blackjack and hookers.
@@WafflesOinc Aside from the Christian stuff yeah.
Once you have used a phone thats tracked to your name they have your voice. They can identify you ANY WHERE your voice is heard. They can also use your voice in calls to others
Incometh AI resistance is futile kneel before skynet
It is increasingly difficult in the UK to get prepaid phones. Typical way is to buy cheap handsets from supermarkets or Argos. SIM cards can be got for £1 from places like Poundland. Main issue is that all networks "pre-enroll" you to pay monthly, so you have to keep topping up your account each month.
You can get top up vouchers from supermarkets and convenience stores.
Like everything in the UK, the government are trying to make it illegal to buy a phone without showing ID.
hardly, i got my phone from carphone warehouse and just buy tesco mobile each month. havent had to show id or anything at all
UK sounds orwellian
@@ZGFyZG8g even worse in germany. You have to show ID to buy a sim and then to activate it the carrier wants your address, they send a letter to you with a code that can be used to finally activate your phone.
@@DangerousPictures my goodness, I really do have it good here in America.
@@DangerousPictures die guten alten Zeiten wo man im Reisebus gratissimkarten hohlen konnte...
I served on jury duty; how much info the PD's divisions can dig up on someone is mind-blowing. They are incredibly sophisticated. I always considered them like the Keystone Cops, but this couldn't be farther from the truth.
Thank you. Now I can watch Mental Outlaw videos without the FBI knocking on my door for the 5th time
Amateurs.
do not use your private phone to consume similar media that you did on your old phone!!11!
bro if they're literally knocking on your door you are doing something else other than watching these videos.
I love that your channel popped into my suggested right after I started allegedly getting copyright warnings for allegedly torrenting
Wow this just shows how much privacy we've given up and how much it takes to get it back
This type of invasion used to be against the law and is actually still unconstitutional in so many ways. We, the people, need to make a stand for our rights.
Fight for your right
Ummm it's not coming back! Only going to get worse.
@@alreadybanned-pe6se to paaaaaarrrrty... LoL. Sorry I had the throw Beasty boys in there.
Thank goodness for the patriot act, where would we be without our government keeping us safe from ourselves?
If one were to follow someone around, watch them inside their house, etc... they'd go to jail or at least get a restraining order. We need to tar and feather people who do the digital equivalent of that.
That's a lot of effort... just setting fire to Google and facebook seems an easier solution to be honest.
Freedom = 1/Convenience
Becoming a dictator and controlling the companies through your paramilitary organization seems easier and cooler tbh.
I would love to see these companies burnt to the ground. Twatter as well.
Kek, no kidding.
Time to invest in tinfoil, soon enough they have the tech to read your brain through your phone.
I fucking hate this timeline so fucking much FUCK
Yes! FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!
Phones are inherently intrusive due to how they operate, so it's best just to keep the privacy and security at a reasonable level and separate your public and private life.
In 2022 Public and Private life are the exact same thing...
Honestly I've never cared enough to do all those steps to protect my data because it was never really used actively against you but as that is changing with things like changing credit scores based on the content of your private messages probably will become more common these kind of steps will become essential
credit scores? in china?
@@maxemore oh i meant insurance customer scores to decide how much of a risk you are and how much you pay but same with credit too if this goes too far
I think if things keep developing this way in the future I'm just going to stop using technology for anything. I would like to see them track my message history when I have none
@@Ypog_UA You won't be able to separate yourself from technology unless you completely isolate yourself in the forest for the rest of your life. And honestly, what kind of life is that? I totally understand your desire to go off the grid, I can definitely relate, but it's becoming more and more difficult to live a life worth living while also swearing off tech. You'd literally need to become Amish and become self-sufficient living on a farm, and even then, the city roads will still have cameras and satellites will still be able to see your property.
I understand how you feel though, I feel that way about cars - I've always been a computer guy but the computerization of cars is making me want to protest anything newer than a 2006 and just drive something from the 1960's that I know beyond a shadow of a doubt I have 100% complete and total control over. I want to know with certainty that my car isn't connecting to the internet and updating itself, and I absolutely don't need my car pulling me over when a cop turns on their lights behind me, or the vehicle's GPS tracking me, or self-driving camera tech recording everything it sees.
The only problem is, newer cars are dramatically safer and older cars will become less and less reliable by the year as more and more miles are put on them by their current owners. They'll become more and more scarce until it is cost prohibitive to have a purely mechanical car. Or, more realistically, it will become illegal to drive a purely mechanical car, for "safety" reasons.
It really is some Orwellian 1984 Big Brother type shit our society is heading towards. Not even heading "towards," though, because we've already got our foot in the door. We're going to be tracked and monitored 24/7 in every facet of our lives until 1. we have an armed uprising, 2. a solar coronal mass ejection wipes out 99% of earth's tech infrastructure, or 3. our species is eradicated either by its own stupidity or a random cataclysmic event like an asteroid or gamma ray burst.
@@whirlwind872 I don't need to be Amish. For example, I'm pretty sure a Nintendo DS won't be very spooky
Another good tip...
Watch out for CCTV. If you have no choice to buy from a vendor that has CCTV, then don't use the simcard or phone for six months. Don't even put it on.
Secondly, when you go buy phone and SIM, leave your phone at home, as it can be tracked. If you have a modern car it probably has GPS tracking as well, so use the public transport if you can.
And NEVER turn the WiFi or Bluetooth on. Like never. My private phone actually had me open it up and physically damage the WiFi and Bluetooth chip. But do that at your own risk.
Bro what do you want to use this phone for 🤣🤣 I get the privacy bit, but the CCTV is just too far🤣
how do you listen to music and get free internet?
Yeah... this is legit the hardest part of going private but being connected irl. Hard to live without my super cheap employee discount unlimited data 😭
Choice is yours: either get the cheap unlimited and risk your data getting stolen or having a smaller bundle and be safe online
@@StayKwimp_ ach yeah but even then is that enoguh? What about my home broad band connection? I can abandoned windows but then shouldn't I dns block google, AWS, Microsoft etc? Access yt devoid of Google api etc. Otherwise is it only worth doing half the battle?
@@majorskies7091 honestly something is better than nothing. Better to have google only know 95% of your information than 100%.
@@insertdead Yup, every step counts. It's a never ending process too
Imagine being paid in data. I would tell my employer to shove the data up his ass depending on how unhinged I feel that day. Give me money, that I can choose to spend on whatever I want because I'm not a goddamn slave.
Dude you have no idea how much I've been looking for video like this & couldn't be more thankful, thanks a TON i needed this
But this will not really help: it's utopic!
So de-big-teching is like the modern day version of going of the grid
Might have to go off the grid at this point with shit like Amazon's SIdewalk service keeping their devices literally always connected and transmitting data to their servers if they're even close enough to another compatible device.
You should add "in the USA" to the title, because for example in Poland it's nigh-impossible to do so due to the mandatory prepaid card registration that includes stuff like your name and your PESEL (PESEL is roughly like the US SSN).
How to have a private phone: Just don't have one
It's how I do it.
Steal someone's phone, use it once, then dump it.
Too bad you can’t go anywhere online without being demanded for one
Private Real Deta Phones Ain't Gonna save you either
The urge to disapper from everywhere is too compelling ❤
Right?!
Ted Kaczynski, is that you? You back from death?
The problem with used phones is that you have no idea what kind of questionable activities the previous owner could've been involved in. The phone could be secretly tracked in an official investigation without your (or the previous owner's) knowledge, and then you are caught up in that dragnet.
Could also be stolen.
The feds will know if the phone was invloved in illegal activities, and if you bought it off of craigslist 2nd hand, thr most they might end up doing is seizing it.
But yes the tracking part would fuck things up.
as a teen i had a lot of times my imei read by police in a stop, i wasn't doing anything wrong they just thought i might have stole it since up until 2015 there weren't any safeguards in android phones that prevented you from getting away with stealing someone's phone. these days they are not doing it anymore or atleast i haven't heard of it happening
@@theshankman8682
Why would they think you stole the phone everyone has a phone
@@theshankman8682 you don't realise what they were really after my dude. Never submit
I remember about 5-6 years ago trying to use my iphone in Manhattan for GPS and it would always think I’m on the wrong block or a street over. Now it’s always super accurate.
same experience for me
Well, this is very good for improving privacy and hiding your private data from tech giants.
However, hiding from the government wouldn't be 100% guaranteed.
As long as the phone is at a place where it's there for most of the time then that place would be considered as your main residence place aka your home.
This would make it easier for the government to track you since the cellular tower you connect to most of the time is known.
This leads to the feds being able to narrow down your location and make them able to set up IMSI catchers and scan the whole area.
They will be able to narrow down the location of the phone to a small area and from there try and do more stuff to find you.
However, this scenario applies to people who are on the top of the wanted list and worth the effort.
@Alb Don Yeah and hope you have a good social score so papa China doesn't f**k you... You forgot the main point of doing this which is liberty.. You want us to live in a shit distopian world just like 1984 no wonder the government doesn't want a second George Orwell
thats why you never turn it on at home as he mentioned in the video?
Nothing is 100%, at best you get 99.99999% and even that is difficult to acquire. You take steps to minimize risk, not eliminate it
Have a safe deposit box they can't tie the location to you unless they get access to your box
It's easier than that now
It is so incredibly difficult (relatively) and extremely inconvenient to have actual privacy. It's so unfortunate.
Privacy? Never heard of it
Is there like, a sim to usd type adapter? and some simple program that can use it to text/call? Using a phone for privacy seems super tedious
.
Replying so I get notified of an answer
While there are USB modems which can take a sim card, you would need to isolate the host device which you are connecting the modem to in order to maintain the level of OpSec he described. I can't find any USB-C or micro-B modems, only USB-A. It seems like Huawei modems can make (and possibly receive) calls through the COM port and another program. However, all modems, both embedded and external (and don't use CDMA because that uses an MEID), require an IMEI from the device and the IMSI from the sim card. I'd imagine obtaining the portable modem surreptitiously and maintaining the level of security while connecting it to an existing device would be much harder than getting some $50 used phone in another city. I also don't know what information these programs would need to send through the modem to initiate the connection. If you just need to make calls and texts, your best bet is a feature phone from the gas station bought with cash dressed in aviators and a siege mask.
lol you lookin for a sip trunk with some DIDs, you can get a modem like you described but not worth it
There are the Linux phones (Phinephone whatever) with physical switches to turn off the communication devices. But even that is not optimal. Better ditch the phone and have a laptop or something with you. But then your down to mails etc. It is like we are being fooled into having tracking devices on us 24/7. And not knowing it.
My new favorite channel hands down
But still they will know the general area you live and where you go based on where the phone is when you do use it (hypothetically), even if you only take it out of the faraday cage to use it. This is why we must return to monke
NEVER call 911 from your cellphone unless YOU (or child etc I guess) will 100% die if you don't. Not smart to call them at all, but if you do, at least use their non emergency number so they're not automatically pulling your phase 2 location from CAD.
Sincerely, your friendly neighborhood former call taker/dispatcher.
its a good idea anyway to have that on hand. And also non-emergency police number for all the cities you spend time in.
It is a legal requirement in some places to call emergency services for someone in imminent danger, what I do is take *their* phone.
@@pierreghazarian6087name one place where that's the case
@@pierreghazarian6087 maybe europe or some shit. Only thing I know of in the states is some places have requirements where you must help LE if their in a life or death situation.
@@cakearmy_maxgaming6346
Where is that?
You don't have to help anyone
Or you could just ditch your cell phone, or keep one for only what you need and keep that in a faraday cage most of the time. The problem is more than just that our digital lives are tracked, it's that too much of our lives are digital.
Faraday cage is way more effort than just pulling the battery...
@@user-nh3gu1ge3d you would think so. look up how apple phones can still be tracked when they are "dead"
@@lolwtnick4362 I said "pulling the battery" not "dead". If you're going to reply to me, reply to what I actually said not what you made up.
@@user-nh3gu1ge3d And how do you pull the battery out of an iPhone or a Samsung Galaxy?
@@rdean150 The phones pictured have removable batteries (9:11, 8:53)
Basically all prepaid phones make you pay monthly or yearly now. I've looked into it. Cause I don't use data often. I still have to for the service yearly even if I have a bunch of extra minutes still... When I was younger you bought the phone and could just add minutes when you need them. No subscription needed.
At this point I wouldn't be surprised if mental outlaw had a secret dark web channel and talked in the deep hacker voice
Seriously, he should just fully doxx himself already.
@@ibnal-sindhi5628 Why? Got beef with him?
he's probably one of my favorite tech youtubers
very privacy focused and shares an uncensored view of privacy with the world
spares no details and provides a very judgement free perspective on privacy
@Alfie some people really do wanna watch the world burn tbh
@@justananimefan1570 no one said that.
@@justananimefan1570 No beef, it's just his content is cringe. You seriously don't know how to buy a burner phone? You really what to learn infosec? Go watch some HackerSploit videos.
Also, if you have a newer phone that supports esim, you could get multiple networks operational on the phone, so you could confuse the glowies by swapping back and fourth. Or alternatively, you could illegally operate an LTE network you built yourself in order to be the only person on that network, therefore you would control all traffic in or out of the device.
Realistically, that's probably the only way you'd be able to escape their outreach, which is pretty scary if you think about it.
Thank you Kenny for improving our business safety.
Holy shit that's a lot of hard work to do something that should be freely available to everyone all the time.
I'm never selling my old cars. I can't stand new ones. 2004 is my cutoff.
No tracking features in my Subaru
Based
@@AnthonyR007 cringe
I would rather go late 80s or early 90s. All the computer crap began around 94, if you want to avoid computers in general. I don't remember which year exactly. I don't know when the tracking began, but probably in the 2000s, I assume. Anyway, if it's from the early 90s and made in Japan, it's probably good.
@@censoredterminalautism4073 Tracking? Cars? I mean sure today cars do that. But around 90s the only computers where the engine and what? ABS? And there are real merits to have the engine managed by computers. But around 2000-2010 it turned into a shit show. And 1990-2020 computers was trying to cheat there way around emissions ruining engines. So if anything you at best should delete any emission stuff. But that is actually agents the law and do pollute more. But there are some emission stuff down right stupid that wear the engines out faster. But today the damage is done already. So kinda pointless.
All in the name of convenience. And "saving the planner" by cheating or doing some stupid shit to get to that goal. Like putting excuse gas back into the engine and making it EVEN more dirty and such. Hurting and clogging up the internals. Or now in modern day stop and start systems wearing out the engines faster. Just to cheat MPG and emission numbers.
@@TheDiner50 yeah tracking computers in cars are old as fuck, look it up.
If you bought a used phone, it could be rooted to have spyware. It happens a lot with hardware wallets.
yeah but andriod being linux based beens you can just read the code
I always thought that we can make the internet censorship-proof & privacy-respecting
But, what about the access???
We need to be able to make our own connections to the internet easily for free without ISPs
Since, IoT is becoming more invasive& forced down our throats
mesh networking
LoRa
In our country, Philippines they passed a law called sim card registration which requires you to give your ID to them and put it in a database. I always warned people but they just said that its for scammers. 😢
yet another banger, Outlaw.
could you make a video on QubesOS in the future and break it down on if it's truly a Snowden-OS style bastion of privacy and security, or if it's moreso just a flashy gimmick with a few random haphazardly implemented privacy features? thanks!
Seconding this notion
@@paulwalker5225 As do I
cover how yandex is
a bot network attacking everyone
And my question is, what do you use this phone for? If you use it for your private life, well it'll be extremely difficult since it's gonna be down most of the time. Also if you use it to call your friends and family I don't think it'll be that hard to track you back since their phones probably are very low on privacy and have access to the call history.
I don't see the point on having a private phone unless you're on the run, trying to avoid a stalker, protect yourself from a dangerous situation, etc.
What are the non illegal uses for a private phone like this that it makes it worth keeping? I'm really interested in your answers.
There really aren't any. This is essentially just a guide for hacking and cyber crime.
Always good to have some phones. If ur legit as legit it still stops u from being harassed all the time, stalked scams irs harassment calls etc etcn lets u leave business/work or acquaintances out of ur personal chill time when u want
i dumped my cell phone and strictly use my private metal can and string communication device. no GPS and i can see whos on the other end of the string.
Man, what a video! I love the content you put up!!
Not sure if this is sarcastic way of telling ppl that staying anonymous basically means not using any modern tech features or just regular video. If it's case 2 then you forgot about voice modulation. Your voice is something like your fingerprint and can be easily analysed from frequency spectrum.
My phone was hacked last week thats why i am here .
This is the sort of paranoiac stuff I came here for
You know what they say big brother is always watching
How do you feel about a pi w with a screen and battery bought with cash?
If companies were personally liable when they use less than adequate security measures with their databases and our data is stolen, it would get buttoned up real quick.
serious question: what are the benefits of a private phone if one wouldn't be able to do any of the usual stuff? like, what would be its practical use(s)?
Privacy I can't really think of any downsides other than potentially losing notifications but you can keep it with micro g
serious answer: behind every funny comment in this comment section there is a person with some seriously bad intentions/business. Like. Seriously. Bad.
@@legendarymoviescenesYT Dude, I see all the clips you post. Thanks, man
you don't know what might happen in the future
knowledge everyone should know just in case
Goodbye, not being on multiple watch lists.
Hello, new watches!
_see Matrix at __0:30_
_panik, pause_
> Matrix hits 30M users, yay!
_kalm_
matrix doesn't help if your server gets pwned.
Honesty with all the limitations and how easy it is to get found might as well not carry a phone. I’d imagine if you do this and say give a family member a ride they’ll see the two phones and be able to establish a connection that way as well. Lots to think about.
I'm pretty sure using an old Nokia with the Sim process in the video is easier than using a smart phone
Serbia is a safehaven for privacy!
One of the thing is, you can buy a sim card for 2 bucks and put in as much as you want, activate data or a plan for like 3-5 bucks (you gotta pay cash) and you can do it at any store.
2k likes and just 12k views, RUclips is suppressing any channel that tackles privacy and security, such a dystopian society
or people are genuinely disinterested in things like extreme-uber-privacy and just want a new phone that Just Works™
i know that youtube is complete shit with a lot of things but this is bordering on paranoia
@@thejoziebozieknowing that youre being spied on is not paranoia
Lot of good Stuff on this video and nicely presented.
Having said that Humans should be aware all the technology and this includes devices, programs
YES THIS VIDEO WAS EXACTLY WHAT I WANTED THANKS!!!
The one thing I did find confusing is the whole “purchasing a new phone from the manufacturer and paying with cash”. How can you do that unless you physically live near them (e.g. Samsung or OnePlus)?
i just bought mine used on ebay. shouldn't matter if you're not buying it new or directly from the manufacturer/service company.
@@env0x I see. Thanks for clarifying 👍
@@env0x ebay isn't great because your account is linked to you, and they mail it to you, or your PO box which is linked to you. Craigslist, in person, best buy with cash, etc. Best buy will have cameras though so maybe wear a hat, wig, makeup, whatever. Plus they likely don't keep their footage for that long so you should be hard enough to find. But yeah, only 100% solution is don't have a phone.
Buying at Walmart or best buy
buy a phone with cash, or from ebay with a prepaid debit card acquired with cash and mailed to an inaccurate name and residence that is not your own.. or any other way to buy a used/cheap phone
buy prepaid sim card with cash (US only etc.)
don’t connect to your networks or smart devices, don’t input personal information/email addresses that can be uploaded when the phone is connected online, if possible get an old model of phone
So basically if we are required to register the SIM card with our full name and an ID card, we're screwed :q
It's terrifying however when you think how many people don't take even the simplest measures to keep their privacy.
In my country, the introduction of an ID law on SIM cards led to two developments: One, a somewhat flourishing grey market of grandfathered cards activated before the law came into effect. You also had to provide a name and address under the old legislation, which however nobody has verified and that are often fakes. Two, vendors on marketplaces like eBay popping up mass-selling prepaid cards already activated under their own identity, just barely begging that you re-activate them as soon as possible. Also, things like harmonized EU roaming which allows you to get a number in a country like the Netherlands without such restrictions and use such a card mostly like a domestic one (with certain limitations e.g. on mobile data), at least where a foreign number is accepted.
@@D0Samp Unfortunately it won't work in my country, because even if you have an old SIM card, they deactivated it in 3 months after the regulations have been introduced, and now you _have_ to register it with your full name or else it isn't accepted by the network.
Another thing is that more and more cellphones have the so-called eSIM (embedded SIM), which is basically a SIM card chip soldered directly to the motherboard of your cellphone, and you can't even swap it. It's pinned to your device forever. The operator can reprogram it remotely when you register in order to connect you to the network, but you can't. They basically own you, whether you like it or not, and if you don't, you don't have access to the network. And you need the access to the network if you want to use your bank account etc., because now, "thanks" to EU regulations, you can't have a bank account if you don't have a cellphone. They require it to open an account, they require it to log in, and they require it for money transfers.
@@bonbonpony wtf you cant have a bank account without a cell phone?
@@justamango942 Yes. Wecome to the New World Order :q And if you don't have that in your country, you'll probably have it soon too. They introduce such bullshit here and there so that people implementing the "not on my backyard" approach didn't figure it out until it's too late.
@@bonbonpony Just switch back to a retro brick phone.
A man should never be afraid to not be tracked.
This was awesome to learn! Might get one.
1:28 and what if you buy an used phone? or if i sell my phone and a criminal is doing shit things. How can i prevent that its connected to me then?
you sold it not your problem
@@anonymouswhite352yeah I know but I mean what if it's the other way around?
would reusing a sim card on graphineos be a good middle ground between brain-dead and schizophrenic?
Best most complete video I have seen great information 👍
I was wondering, what license do you consider your videos to have? are they public domain or no?
Can you please make an updated version of this procedure since phones services/devices have changed!
Thank you👑
No one can escape what's coming. Even if you got rid of all your technology, they still have you.
Me: prepaid phones? I could do that!
Also me: uses 80-90GB of data per month
Thanks! This tutorial helped me a lot about the fbi agents trying to arrest me
in France, there's LycaMobile which is pretty much available to buy everywhere you go, they give you SMS+Calls and some gigabytes of data for cheap (cheapest plan is ~10€), heck, even in some weird barber shops.
Cheapest plan:
- 4,99€ a month for 3 months then 9,99€ a month
- 20 GB of data
- Unlimited SMS & Calls
- Free international calls to 50 places (incl. US, UK, Canada, China)
- UE Roaming
You can also use the xPrivacyLua XPosed module to spoof and/or disable sensors.
For XPosed, I recommend using these Magisk modules:
- Riru
- Riru - LSPosed (XPosed replacement)
and other essentials such as:
- Busybox for Android NDK
- ExSDCard Access Enabler
What has the world come to when we have to fight our own devices and protect ourselves from the devices we paid for.
❤ excellent information 👍✌️ 100% correct ☺️👌
I just hope my agent is having a good day ❤
Here in serbia you can just go to any kiosk and just buy a sim card for like 4 or 5$ witha weel of free internet and phone calls, and you can just pay cash to add credit on it, thats what i have been doing for the past 8 years or so.
This man is a gem
Outstanding info!! Imformitive!!! Thank you..its a crazy ass world out there
So, if the cell company sees a new phone on its towers that it doesn't have a profile for, that's not going to send up a flag after few weeks? Also, the meta data from using the phone normally would show up pretty quickly. A good video none the less.
Realistically, the best way to hide is to blend in, a.k.a doing good opsec and feeding the databases with enough selected info so it doesn't look suspicious.
@@notsam9528 Yeah, building a person.
Links & vids on 'how to do' the basics of that need to be made then or better available to the public
I find this amazing the lengths we must go through for privacy
Don't buy a used phone. The previous owner can get it blacklisted at almost any point.
They can’t after the contract is up and it’s long been expelled out their plan, so when you buy unlocked rather than locked to whatever cellular towers the prepaid carrier is based off of.
This just popped up on my feed very interesting stuff Good information but again we’re always connected n there’s no privacy at all anymore…doing all these thing’s really is to no avail….good luck everyone
N merry Christmas
making sure4your phone doesn't connect to your home wifi is pointless... The network adapters of the phone will ping your router and vice versa just as a result of being in the vicinity... this is how they can triangulate your device even if it is turned off.. buy a phone with a removeable battery if you can find one
now i know why my personalized ads looks suspicious. 💀
anyway... good content.
godspeed
how else do you think its personalized…
I wonder if there's any existing service that would trade Monero for a pre-activated SIM and a new phone.
Good question
You got a good address to ship too?
@@tubeguy4066 you've got to take measures to ship anonymously like sending it to the empty house the next neighborhood over and paying the local crackhead to retrieve it and do a dead drop.
A lot of dark net drug forms have guides on how to securely ship stuff.
@@tubeguy4066 abandoned house or a park
I'm on the FBI watchlist for suspected domestic terrorism, which is just a fancy way of saying I prize my freedom. So naturally someone who knows me well recommended your channel.
I’m definitely on a list now. What’s up fed boys!
I watched a murder trial and the killer had a burner phone, he only called his wife from it once. He got 25 years for that call..One mistake and you're done.
Once you activate the phone, even if it’s off, store it somewhere at least 1 mile from your home. Like a safety deposit box.
You missed a very important aspect
Never call friends or family from this phone. Because of Contact Tracing
And once friends & family have this new number, your anonymity is gone
Use encrypted phone cals with people you know an of course a hardend version of signal,thor browser on mobiam with seLinux and system firewall.and a burnner phone number for the rest.