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iOS Lockdown Mode? Ever heard of PRISM?

>>Aerbil+(OP)
Which mobile phone and operating system would you recommend?

>>walter+Dj3
If you are an American citizen who is not against American interests, sure, go with iOS Lockdown Mode. They won’t come after you. If you’re not, then you can get an open-source OS device like GrapheneOS, be careful not to emit any information to the internet except without over anonymity networks like Tor, and use E2E messengers in your day to day comms for your baseline security for today. I don’t know what will happen when AIs will be able to identify any person from a paragraph of text they’ve written. Best to move to a place where no technological State exists and live self-sufficiently then, maybe. Still you’ll be visible to satellites and thus targetable for States, unless you live on hydroponics in an underground mine or something.

For people who are targeted or in risk of being targeted by three letter agencies, it’s a different story.

It’s so easy for any three letter agency to install a mole or buy someone in those open-source projects like GrapheneOS, for example to publish compromised binaries. The best option is always to not use anything connected to the cell (GSM, 4G, 5G etc.) network and carry all comms encrypted over internet, with pre-exchanged secret keys and preferably over a network like I2P and over public Wi-Fis. You can use I2P outproxies to connect to visible (normal) internet. I do NOT recommend Tor, there were reports of Tor being compromised and it’s too suspiciously popular to be trustable IMHO. Pay attention to CCTV cameras as well, don’t sit in a mall to connect its public Wi-Fi. All these things obviously introduce a lot of friction to your communications, but if you are such a high-value person you should have set up your network of people accordingly beforehand as well, to relay messages and such. QubesOS is a good OS for such people. If you have the means, custom device solutions to communicate over radio with encryption is by far the best option you can have, especially for receiving critical comms on time. This only leaves the risk of triangulation when you transmit, but you must be a really high value target for this to happen. And you can always still use internet as I described to transmit.

Don’t ask how I know all this.

>>Aerbil+Ky4
Thanks for the detailed response. We need more opsec guides for "targets", especially if cheaper targeting => more targets.