Thank you for your comment. Your response had me thinking for a while, and yes I think you uncovered it: I had a theoretical idea without actually considering the practical outcome.

I do not have a 3-letter agency targeting me to my knowledge. I quickly realised that sending signals over VOIP is a bad idea, I won’t be doing that.

You are again correct: I run Debian as my daily driver, and it would be foolish to not consider my computer to have been compromised already. I have removed the built-in camera and microphone but I haven’t attempted to clean out Intel ME from my system.

All of this makes my question look pointless since there’s already so many attack vectors. In which case, I’d be interested in your opinion in physically cutting off attack vectors from an Android phone as an academic question.

Thank you for the wonderful comment.

I don’t think you said anything unusual. I’m going to try and get to this stage myself. It’s pretty normal for people interested in digital privacy

The issue is cost. Purchasing a pixel just to keep it lying around for one app is a bit too expensive. I’ll just use my of phone instead

I’m not putting it in a Faraday cage, just preventing it from listening and seeing anything. I’ll place it closer to my WAP if it needs it

It’s still the same problem no? If I can’t DeGoogle a phone then I don’t know what and how much data is being captured. Honestly I really liked the idea to just keep the desktop app running on a separate PC with headphones plugged in. I’m wondering if USB landline converters exist so I can have it ring when a call comes but then I can speak like when I’m wearing headphones.

Thank you for the suggestion though

Yes I realised that after I posted, sorry. Do you have any other ideas I could look at? I just want to keep my phone locked up and away from me when I’m in the house but still be able to talk to family over the chat apps they use (they are not very technically literate so Simplex is out of the question; it took a lot of convincing to get some of them in Signal)

Hmm, do you think there’s a way to have the ringing happen on the speakers but the conversation on the headphones? TBH if this is possible then I don’t need to use such complicated measures

What are you talking about mate? The VPS will be a wireguard server, your device will connect to it and use the VPS’ IP address to connect to your game

Just so you know; American tech is the exact same with different overlords, and Europe is actively banning encryption.

Where do you want to go?

I’d wrap it in a towel inside the box. Have you considered making a DIY Faraday cage? I’ve been thinking about it but my physics isn’t very good

Let’s see: TAILS, Fedora/Debian, Windows and OpenBSD?

Why not both

2FA won’t work as well for banking. Unfortunately, family is still on WhatsApp

Thank you. This was exactly the response I was looking for.

1. Is it possible to set a password for sudo on Android? I’ve never seen anyone talk about it.

2. Sucks that I can’t control sensors with root. Sensors are my biggest fear on all phones.

3. Ah yeah, ARM TrustZone. I had forgotten about that.

4. afaik the modem often relies on a linux based system

   Well, shit.

We need something better than Anubis that can run with JS disabled

Are you able to run banking and chat apps?

I see. You need either IPSEC/OVPN or need to encapsulate wireguard in an SSL tunnel. It’s a little involved but possible to do

How do they plan to “ban” encryption? What are they going to do if I get a VPN and download the Signal APK?

None of them usable

This is setting Google up to eventually say “Aw shucks, might as well make it proprietary, we’re doing it in-house anyway”.

Edit: I can’t believe this comment got downvoted. I wish I could see who the Google SIMPs are in this community