[fsflover]

> Whenever I read articles like this, I get more and more horrified.

> Makes me very wary even of dumbphones

If you care about it, consider GNU/Linux phones, Librem 5 and Pinephone, which run FLOSS and have hardware kill switches for microphone and other things.

[na85]

>If you care about it, consider GNU/Linux phones, Librem 5 and Pinephone, which run FLOSS and have hardware kill switches for microphone and other things.

Last time I checked in with the Librem project, the phone was completely unusable as a phone because the power management and in particular the sleep mode wasn't working properly. Sometimes the phone would wake up from sleep, and since the power management was buggy it would blow through the entire battery charge in an hour.

So essentially you'd need a backup phone for your Librem 5 because you never know if it'll be dead when you need to call 911.

[fsflover]

Currently, Librem 5 lasts about 10 hours on battery (sleep isn't there yet), and Pinephone can last 24 hours.

[speeder]

Last time I checked, these phones are not allowed in my country.

In my country all phones must have permission from the government to operate, and the phone manufacturer that need to ask this permission in first place, any phone detected by cell towers that aren't one of them, can be legally banned from the network (not just YOUR phone, but all identical model phones!)

[jbaber]

Waiting for MMS support, my friend.

[fsflover]

https://forums.puri.sm/t/state-of-mms-on-librem-5/11809/114