Could you get a simple game on there like tower of hanoi? That would rock. And Dual SIM too,for travelling abroad you just pop in a local SIM to the new country and avoid ludicrous roaming charges. I agree though that freedom and privacy are two very different things. I know Google are looking at what I search,but i still want o find stuff on the internet quickly. Unless you are doing something illegal what does it matter if the telecom company read your texts to your girlfriend? I think this dumbphone will be awesome.
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 9:26 PM, Spacefalcon the Outlaw < fal...@ivan.harhan.org> wrote: > Dimonik wrote: > > > Free dumb phone is not enough for freedom/privacy. > > Please don't mix freedom and privacy together; they are two different > concepts. To me personally, the most important freedom is the freedom > to fix bugs. If my dumbphone is misbehaving because of a firmware > bug, I want the freedom to fix it myself, instead of being beholden to > vendors' firmware "upgrades" that introduce 3 new bugs for every old > one fixed. > > > Lets assume freecalypso-sw reached the goal and produce this phone in the > > pocket: > > > > 1. You still will be tracked by telecom network (exposed location); > > So what? The laws of physics are the same for everyone; it should be > obvious to a hedgehog (Russian expression) that if I wish to talk to > my significant other while driving on a highway, I'm going to have to > use a device that acts a radio transmitter, and by the laws of physics > the location of a radio transmitter can be trivially determined by > anyone who takes the effort to trilaterate. Again, so what? > > Having one's location known to anyone who cares to know is the price > one has to pay for the convenience of making it possible for the > important people in your life to be able to reach you instantly at any > time. Again, it all stems from universal laws of physics, no need to > invoke conspiracy arguments here. > > > 2. Your voice will not be encrypted using trusted algorithm (End-to-End) > > because this is dumbphone as thus will obey badly broken standard GSM > A5/1 > > - A5/3 algos with SIM card's loosy 64bit keys; > > Again, a reality I am perfectly willing to accept. > > I may be able to implement end-to-end encrypted voice calls over CSD > (mobile-to-mobile transparent CSD calls work just fine in my part of > the world), even on a dumbphone - but that is a much lower priority > for me; I won't start working on it until *after* I have solved the > far more pressing (for me) moral problem of proprietary firmware w/o > source code. > > > 3. Your calls/sms'es will travel across telecom network and will easily > be > > accessible for prepared adversary (SS7 hacking); > > Again, something I am perfectly willing to live with. > > > So your data still completely insecure, and you better not to use this > > phone. > > *You* don't get to tell me what *I* should or should not use. If you > are willing to give up the ability to call your significant other on > the phone or have her/him call you, that's your choice. Mine is > different. > > For me it is of utmost importance for the special people in my life to > be able to call me at any time, wherever I am. Yes, it would be > wonderful to have these conversations encrypted end-to-end, but I am > still many years away from even starting to work on that part, > therefore, in the meantime we simply accept the fact that all of our > conversations are being listened to by some dude in a suit at FBI/NSA/ > whatever. It's mostly just lovers' talk, no military or business or > other real secrets. > > > Better goal is probably dumb-smartphone at least capable to send traffic > > over data-connection and able to run free OS/crypto software for > end-to-end > > encrypted communication. > > One does not need a smartphone to do what you are describing; I plan > on doing end-to-end voice encryption over CSD on a dumbphone platform. > But as I said, it is an extremely low priority for me personally, thus > I won't even start seriously looking into it until I have solved > everything else that is far more important to me personally. > > SF >
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