JustAnotherKay,

My post was addressed at US residents engaging in “terrorism” by resisting the regime. We are being disappeared, deported, and imprisoned with zero due process or legal recourse simply for speaking out. Every day brings increasingly brazen impunity. You should definitely not use a phone if this is your situation. I did not intend this message for normal privacy fans in free places.

Hope you are well

From https://grapheneos.org/faq#cellular-tracking

“Connecting to your carrier’s network inherently depends on you identifying yourself to it and anyone able to obtain administrative access. Activating airplane mode will fully disable the cellular radio transmit and receive capabilities, which will prevent your phone from being reached from the cellular network and stop your carrier (and anyone impersonating them to you) from tracking the device via the cellular radio. The baseband implements other functionality such as Wi-Fi and GPS functionality, but each of these components is separately sandboxed on the baseband and independent of each other. Enabling airplane mode disables the cellular radio, but Wi-Fi can be re-enabled and used without activating the cellular radio again. This allows using the device as a Wi-Fi only device.”

This behavior has been independently verified by security researchers

Related discussion: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/16284-request-for-opinions-on-airplane-mode-is-a-myth/1

MalReynolds,

So, your key takeaway seems to be getting an untraceable phone number.

Absolutely incorrect. I do not recommend using a phone at all. I do not recommend using services that require a phone number at all. I found the clearnet version for you to read: https://www.anarsec.guide/posts/nophones/

From my point of view the options are grapheneOS with no sim, permanently on airplane mode, or no “phone” at all.

The point of my post was purely to point out the challenges and problems, and to get people in /c/resist open to rethinking and making changes to their relationship with technology. Not to use phone numbers, monero, or XMPP. The bit about anonymous signal was a side tangent not the “key takeaway”. Please re-read if you are interested in engaging further.

You asked for feedback.

I did not post this here, the owner of the instance took it upon himself to make this post. I asked for feedback from active resisters who need help, not privacy forum posters.

Hope you are well