Category: Mobile Phones / Tarife

All SmartPhones are spies! that’s why Merkel keeps the Nokia from 1995 (even if that device is spied on as well, because it can not end2end encrypt sms or phone calls (*FAIL*! X-D)) Putin does not have a mobile phone […]

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: “be careful what you reveal to your friend” (the internet) https://irlpodcast.org/season4/episode5/ data google tries to collect from users: (it is probably only the tip of the iceberg) what if – instead of security – Google […]

short version: + D1 Masten nicht überbucht/gute Netzqualität bei Nutzung von LTE (muss Handy können, kostet 5€ extra d.h. für 25€ monatlich (Stand: 2020-01) kann man dann tatsächlich sein Handy auch nutzen (falls dieses kein LTE kann… sollte man das […]

Warum VoIP? Viele Anbieter von LTE z.B. bieten gar keine Festnetz-Telefonie an, sondern nur Internet. (das zum Teil (nicht günstiger) aber schneller (und schnurloser via Handy-Netz) als die Telekom (4G/LTE/UMTS)). D.h. man braucht dann noch einen weiteren Anbieter der die […]

update: 2020-05 for whatever reason the following SSHDroid app does not work anymore. please checkout the even easier to use (default port: 2222) and setup: SimpleSSHD (Easy to use SSH server) – https://f-droid.org/app/org.galexander.sshd # start the ssh server app # […]

update: 2021-01 “the best (most privacy & security & usability) Smart Phone solution” is yet to be found (PinePhone (yet untested) comes close) and it would be like: runs standard unmodified GNU Linux kernel 100% open source drivers comes with […]

update: 2021-03: https://www.space.com/air-force-emp-attacks-protection fast answers: EMP is a serious threat to all survival of electronic devices (esp without a proper (double!) metal casing) get one of those: wrap whatever shall be EMP protected into cartonage + wrap aluminium foil around […]

Your mobile phone is giving away your approximate location all day long. This isn’t exactly a secret: It has to share this data with your mobile provider constantly to provide better call quality and to route any emergency 911 calls […]

  one was running CyanogenMod “Beanstalk” on Samsung Galaxy S3 (i9300) for the last 2-3 years and it worked pretty well, but after a while (and a lot of Apps) it becomes unreliable/unstable. (but that is with all systems that […]

“Thinking is hard work and not worth the effort” (The Love Police) Ever wondered why WhatsApp is for free? It is a self-surveillance tool. Phones with closed-source wifi drivers are cheap. Because to know the last detail about you – […]

About the TL-WR841N(D) box: Device Type: WiFi Router Brand: TP-Link (Shenzhen, China) Model: TL-WR841N(D) Version: v11 FCCID: https://fcc.io/TE7/WR841NXV11 Availability: Discontinued Supported Since Commit: https://git.lede-project.org/?p=source.git;a=commit;h=c8dd53e591801cb403cc4b916b474e39d65f2214 Supported Since Rel: 15.05.1 Supported Current Rel: 18.06.8 Gluon support: Broken Target: ar71xx-ath79 Subtarget: tiny Package […]

i would love iceland or any government come forth on that issue – developing and standardizing free hardware (from phones to laptops to 3d printed houses?) for it’s free citizens – without closed-source-binary-blobs and drivers. https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw http://reprap.org/wiki/RepRap_Machines Further hardware resources: […]

replicant.us: Samsung Galaxy Qualcomm Modem Backdoor in Software (FSF) “We are also having tough times with GPS: all the GPS chips found in the Android phones we support implement a secret and non-documented protocol that we just cannot figure out.” […]

Update: 2019-10: Plötzlich keine Mobilen Daten mehr (weder 2G 3G 4G) am Nexus 6P Das 3G Netz (UMTS) wird scheinbar rückgebaut auch von der Telekom (D1, Congstar) (warum auch immer!? mir war die Geschwindigkeit ausreichend) . Mein Problem war aber: […]

what is great about mumble: clients exist for Windows, OSX, (at least Debian/Ubuntu) Linux and even Android and IPhone. the audio quality is SUPERB (better than phone) if you use good headphones like sennheiser a disadvantage is the reverb that […]

update: 2020-09: problems getting bigger without regular updates because a SmartPhone (no matter Android/Samsung or IOS/Apple based) are essentially complete “notebook computers” with a very very small form factor directly or NAT (NAT better to avoid direct attacks, but no […]

update: 2021-01 “the best (most privacy & security & usability) Smart Phone solution” is yet to be found (PinePhone (yet untested) comes close) and it would be like: runs standard unmodified GNU Linux kernel 100% open source drivers comes with […]