Secure laptop advice? / Smartphone purchase advice ?
Obviously buy only unlocked carrier independant phones cash upfront no financing, fuck the carriers. Bonus is they won't come preloaded with carrier blingware, only manufacturer blingware. Most of the manufacturer warez can be avoided with... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_One http://www.android.com/one/ You can also customise, compile and emulate test Android OS. Strip out the entire Google app suite, search, play, tunes, all the useless apps, spy, network and battery eaters, background daemons, all gone. Set your own security defaults in ROM, etc... https://source.android.com/ https://www.xda-developers.com/ GPS chip / antenna / pwb traces can be physically disabled, same for camera, microphone. Learn on freebie recycled phones before hacking on your Librem, Purisim, or whatever. Still doesn't solve the baseband HW backdoor issue. For that today you'd need VOIP number provider via WiFi via cellular hotspot, or an OpenBTS etc SDR setup. Intel is a top secret behemoth, so AMD should be preferred by default just for competition sake while #OpenHW rolls. There's somewhat more open Power9 platforms... https://www.raptorcs.com/TALOSII/ Plus all the ARM and random *boards HW out there, most of which isn't truly open. At least don't buy WinTel systems. Today you can also easily startup and adopt... #OpenFabs , #OpenHW , #OpenSW , #OpenDev , #OpenBiz , #OpenAudits , etc #CryptoCurrency So far it seems no one's minds are deprogrammed redpilled and free enough to actually imagine and come together to initiate that FTW, so all we still see for decades is same dumbass questions... - What untrusted CPU / Laptop / Phone / Gear to buy? - Give me Fiat Which is nothing more than kissing your master's ass. They love that. The first to market with verifiable trustworthy #OpenHW made in #OpenFabs will make immense profits from sectors that need that assurance.