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Comment by Terry_Roll | Hacker News Reader

I dont have a phone because I have enough trouble keeping my life private from the govt, let alone anyone else in society. Its bad enough science stole my privacy!

I find phones amusing because of all the trouble and strife they bring.

There are pro's and cons for phones, I get it, but should I be that accessible to anyone who can dial the right number combination or use a war dialler?

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This comment fits in just as well with a phone from the 1870s as a phone from the 2020s. I can just imagine someone saying this about the neighbors' party line.

Next time something bad happens to you, please post about it here so we can say how amusing it is that you exist. Do you see how condescending this is? Billions of people use smartphones.

Phones can be quite secure if you take the time to secure them.

I've had NSO like activity on my phone, I've had hacking on my phone since the 90's. So what I have learnt with the law is, firstly it generally needs evidence although there are some rare situations where accusations are enough. Even when you have evidence, this can still generally be removed or the police prevented from seeing it.

Another problem with phones is you cant control when they drop from 3G or 4G back to 2G which then makes it easy to capture the conversation from the air and do a replay attack. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/your-phone-vulnerable-...

External influences, control when your phone drops down to 2G and I have not seen any phone manufacturer put in an option to terminate calls and prevent calls being made on 2G. Things like the PinePhone and Librem are missing a trick.

The other problem with technology is the sheer number of options or inability to access and modify in order to make secure. Whether we like it or not, our lives are in the hands of others.

I gave up a long time ago when I realised how many legal ways there are to kill people. Its quite clever really but some institutions have had hundreds of years to perfect their dark arts.

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