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I Tried the "Criminal's" Phone of Choice for a Month (m.youtube.com)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Toasted_Breakfast@lemmy.today to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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This idiots going to get it banned

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[–] Lfrith@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I love that he is implying that GrapheneOS is the criminal OS of choice. /s

That had not even entered my mind before just associating it with privacy. Thanks Linus what a real help pushing that narrative with the title and thumbail.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Tbf, whenever there's a private tool like graphene, tor, tails, whonix, mullvad, matrix, jabber, pgp, etc?

Yes, criminals will use it, because of course they don't want to get caught for crimes just as much as we don't want to be tracked in general (maybe more, because crimes lol).

But also, criminals use roads, trains, busses, the USPS and private mail carriers, normal phones including SMS and calls, facetime, email, they drink water and eat food, on and on.

"Criminals use it" is a fucking stupid reason to ban anything, in fact it's a good reason we should adopt it too in terms of privacy, because if it works for them doing way worse than I am, then it ought to work just fine for me too. Besides over half of those criminals are just using WHM or whatever is the go to these days, define "criminals."