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Jesus fucking christ.
I don't use my phone for anything other than directions, phone calls, and texting my wife. Partially because I'm not going to carry around something with tons of shit that can be used against me.
This is fucking insane.
It does not matter. The phone still uses you, no matter how much you use it.
For directions you can use a separate GPS navigation tool. Phone and text calls -> just get a dumb phone.
Just know that SMS and regular phone services are inherently insecure and to not use them for any conversations you wouldn't want broadcasted to the whole world.
Fair point, what's then the safest?
I don't think there's necessarily a safest, thats a moving target and everyone's threat level is different. There's a number of open source E2EE encrypted messaging apps though and lots of resources comparing their pros and cons. I can try to find you a link a bit later when I have more time if you'd like.
Sure, I'm always open to it. And even if it has no use for me, all the more use for other queers and demsocs :3
I'm not sure what demsoc means, but I've found these sites to be helpful.
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/real-time-communication/ https://eylenburg.github.io/im_comparison.htm
Simplex is probably the safest.
But I would say signal is very safe while being more convenient.