You do realize that torturing people is not a way to get information out of people, right?

Torturing people produces misinformation, not information.

Torture is what you do to someone when you enjoy causing them pain.

The cruelty is the point.

Meh, doom is fine for me

What's the percent of apps on fdroid that run?

Go to a local solar shop and give them money.

Why are you eating socks?

Solar panels and cryptocurency mining

Really? Not because he's a murderer who committed war crimes, but because he leaked some data?

They sure have their priorities straight..

This is kinda silly. Most implants are installed by the NSA at the airport when you buy the device.

It's much easier for them to install implants on devices at the time you order it than to break into your house.

The Stasi is back

So he’s created the next best thing: a so-called mobile virtual network operator, or MVNO, a kind of virtual phone carrier that pays one of the big, established ones—in Phreeli’s case, T-Mobile—to use its infrastructure.

The result is something like a cellular prophylactic. The towers are T-Mobile’s...

So T-Mobile sees all of your DNS queries, the numbers of everyone you call, and can read all your SMS messages. And fingerprint your voice. And triangulate your position.

So, unless you avoid all of this with DOH, never making phone calls (and making sure no friends or family or employer or banks call you), never turn the phone on at your home address, and never using SMS: they'll be able to identity the owner of your plan within the first week of typical usage data collection

Merrill says. “If we were able to set up our own network of cell towers globally, we can set the privacy policies of what those towers see and collect.”

Well that's ambitious