How to set up and use the torch phone
When it comes to the torch phone, be sure to get rid of it in a thoughtful way. “At the end of the intended use, consider the steps to eliminate information, remove SIM cards and/or memory cards, and make sure it does not leave a potential vulnerability after you,” says El Muskati.
Using the alternative phone
Depending on your risk model, the use of a real torch phone may not be appropriate or even the most practical. Instead, you may want to consider using the phone to separate the elements of your digital life.
“There is a lot of confusion because” Torch phone “is a public term,” says Matt Michel, managing director of the dangerous company. “I usually try to group tactics and advice based on goals. It begins why a regular phone is not good for privacy and then dialing the private you want to get, the privacy goals are dialing-from safer health to safer operating systems, to direct locked phones.”
For many people, an Altphone or “lighter” phone is probably a smartphone that allows for a wide range of communication and access to privacy enhancement tools such as encrypted messaging applications such as signal, VPN, online tracking blockers and more. This way you can adjust your personal privacy dial to keep some web browsing, software use, media consumption or more private and unknown communication than on your regular devices.
“What are you trying to protect? If you just try to vague your phone number, you can do it in a much lighter way,” says ACLU. “But if you really try to turn off the network, you have to do so much.
Altphone may be a smartphone that you can remove as much as possible, perhaps the phone you only use to attend the protests. Or this can be an old phone that you reuse and use for things like travel. How to adjust the privacy dial depends on the used.
VO Cyberlixir says “a renovated phone can be used for a long time.” “A phone again has your effect, even by resetting the factory. There may be a sales receipt, a CCTV system or your person speaking via the phone. So they are useful for manufacturer activities. Working against a personal phone is the most prominent example. Or one for international travel.” Reuse devices also retain specific IDs such as IMEI over time.
The use of smartphones as a second device has its own considerations. When it comes to the main devices, “smartphones do a terrible job in protecting people’s privacy and providing their communications.” “If people get a smartphone to use as a torch, it is best to reset it to factory settings, never connect real accounts (Appleid, Google, Social Media) and do not sync any other information, as well as unnecessary location and other services.”
You just have to use your Altphone for your purpose – if this is the phone you want to go to objection, for example, you should not be used for SMS SMS or online shopping. Like a real torch phone, you should avoid using it in the place you use other devices-in other words, avoid connecting to the same Wi-Fi networks. Do not turn on your Altphone alongside your daily devices and at the same time, do not carry them all together unless your phone is in a Faraday bag. Just provide contact information for Altphone for those who need it.
Whether you use the torch phone and whether via mobile phones, the main point is that there is no guarantee or complete solutions. And if there is no room for error, go to the analog and do not enter or engage the phone in whatever you do.
