Re:Pinephone first steps
by mindslight on Monday May 11, 2020 @04:47PM
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If you're talking about GPS location, then don't use application software that reports your location. MicroG+LineageOS will suffice.
If you're talking about tower based location, there is no way to significantly spoof your location since you can only connect to local cell towers.
To mitigate the latter, what you actually want is a phone with smarter software that will communicate over Wifi most of the time (rotating macaddr of course), perhaps with the option to turn on a cell radio in case you really need to communicate out of wifi connectivity. Hopefully the freshly built software stack inspired by new platforms will end up being conducive to this usage.
If you're talking about tower based location, there is no way to significantly spoof your location since you can only connect to local cell towers.
To mitigate the latter, what you actually want is a phone with smarter software that will communicate over Wifi most of the time (rotating macaddr of course), perhaps with the option to turn on a cell radio in case you really need to communicate out of wifi connectivity. Hopefully the freshly built software stack inspired by new platforms will end up being conducive to this usage.