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Without a Trace: How to Keep Your Phone Off the Grid
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this post was submitted on 13 Dec 2023
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Throw your phone out. Get a small librebooted laptop and use an android emulator for any apps.
I have often wondered if you can take an android phone, drill and rip out all the sensors and radio transmitters, and use wired Ethernet through a VPN router and still be able to use just banking apps as that seems to be one thing I keep a proprietary phone around for.
Edit: I forgot the speaker and the mic though the mic could be classed as a sensor
you're still traceable because every phone CPU is directly associated with it's IMEI. Although that's probably not an issue for you since you're planning on using banking apps anyway.
But is that a problem for the threat model of banking as your bank logs everything you're doing and will gladly share that with the government anyway. My question is is there any other possible data they could gather besides the VPN server's IP address and what I'm doing with my bank?
You can change IMEI at will. IMEI doesn't do shit.
Definitely don't. If there isn't a FLOSS Linux client for it, just don't use it.
I'm not giving up mobile deposit.
Leave my house? Duck that.