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Re:How to secure phone against state actor? by brudgers on Sunday March 05, 2023 @12:53PM (#35032062)
To put it in perspective, state actors have departments full of people who spend their work weeks figuring out how to act on behalf of the state and then executing upon those methods.

Those people are more organized than you. They are more motivated. They often have the resources to align Apple's and Google's interests with their own.

And they are more motivated than you. They are patriotic and surrounded by people who are patriotic and paid to be patriotic.

A state actor can travel to your state and get the information when just beating it out of you isn't the better option...but if you're in its state, beating the information out of you is probably the simplest thing that might work.

The revolution will not happen on your smartphone. Those days are past and the Arab Spring taught states all they needed to know.

Good luck.

Re:How to secure phone against state actor? by quickthrower2 on Monday March 06, 2023 @05:12AM (#35039316)
They can only target you if they know you are worth targeting though. In some sense a run of the mill phone might be the best bet. Something too fancy and hard to crack will stand out.
Re:How to secure phone against state actor? by brudgers on Monday March 06, 2023 @09:38AM (#35041514)
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