0:00

In regard to privacy and security, I believe

0:02

our mobile devices are the most

0:04

important things in our digital lives

0:06

which we need to protect. They are

0:08

the most likely to be lost or

0:10

stolen, but I try to look at a bigger

0:12

picture. Every mobile

0:14

device is a tracking device.

0:17

It's a tracking device which we purchase

0:20

with our own money and then we carry it

0:22

around everywhere and then we

0:24

pay for monthly service in order

0:26

to connect to a cellular network and then

0:28

we allow that cellular network to

0:31

constantly document our location

0:33

and document all of the activities

0:36

and communications which we use on their

0:38

network. If that weren't bad enough, we

0:40

then allow Google or Apple

0:42

or whatever you use to then

0:44

collect all the data that they

0:46

can see, which they can tie

0:48

to our profiles. We pay a lot

0:51

of money to all these different services

0:53

but then allow them to

0:55

profit off of our usage of

0:57

their networks, devices, and digital

0:59

products All of this data which we

1:02

volunteer to them can then be used

1:04

against us. We've heard about

1:06

geo fence warrants where you can get

1:08

caught up into a Dragonet involving

1:10

a crime, which you had nothing to do with.

1:12

We have subpoenas, even civil

1:14

subpoenas, which can immediately uncover

1:16

all the different things you do on your devices include

1:19

that in part of some type of civil litigation.

1:21

There's the occasional bad employee at

1:24

any of these services, which

1:26

will abuse their power to collect our data

1:28

and give it to people who don't need it. And of course,

1:30

we have the inevitable breach or

1:32

leak or whatever, That's going

1:34

to expose everything we've done anyway. Why

1:37

do we allow all these companies

1:40

to collect all that data, use it

1:42

to their benefit, and then send us the

1:44

bill. We have the ability to

1:46

make our mobile devices not only

1:48

secure but also private. Most

1:50

of us just don't do anything about

1:52

it. We can prevent most

1:54

leakage of this information, which

1:56

could be used against us in the future.

1:59

It just takes more effort. Google,

2:02

Apple, all these things are very convenient,

2:04

but they are also very invasive.

2:07

Today's show is all about mobile devices.

2:09

Mobile device privacy and security. What

2:12

what we can and what we can't do to

2:14

take ourselves out of this system of

2:16

tracking everything we do. We're

2:18

going to talk about many steps which

2:20

you can take today to eliminate many

2:23

of the headaches you will have in

2:25

the future. Let's start over

2:27

and let's secure our mobile devices

2:30

together. You

2:38

are listening to the Privacy Security OSINT show

2:40

episode 290 released on

2:42

February twentieth of twenty twenty

2:44

two. In this episode, I release our first

2:47

digital guide as part of our new Extreme

2:49

Privacy Series to vote the bulk

2:51

of the show to mobile device privacy and

2:53

security and offer some OSINT updates.

2:56

Direct support for this podcast comes from

2:58

our services training and my

3:00

new books for twenty twenty three OSINT

3:02

techniques, tenth edition, and extreme

3:04

privacy, mobile devices, digital

3:07

edition, more details can be found at inteltechniques

3:10

dot com or within these show notes.

3:13

Welcome back everyone. This is an odd show

3:15

because I'm releasing it on a Monday. Typically,

3:17

I release my shows on Fridays, but something

3:19

has come up. And starting in about four

3:21

hours, I am going to be off radar for an

3:23

unknown amount of time, so I wanted to get

3:25

this out sooner rather than later,

3:28

so here it is. Before we get into

3:30

the main topic, let's go through some OSINT

3:32

stuff because I do have several ossent updates,

3:34

which I think are quite important. For

3:37

people using the latest

3:39

tenth edition of the OSINT Technik's book

3:41

and you have a Mac computer

3:44

with an m one or an m two Apple

3:46

processor in it, you may have

3:48

noticed a problem recently with

3:50

the latest edition of Ubuntu. Obanto

3:54

in the book when I was making that book was

3:56

version twenty two dot o four dot o

3:58

one LTS for long term support.

4:01

And it works fine. There's no issues there.

4:03

Several people have contacted

4:05

me to say that the latest version

4:07

of Ubuntu OSINT two dot o four dot

4:10

o two LTS is causing them

4:12

issues. What people are reporting

4:14

is that specific recent

4:16

version of Ubuntu on a Mac

4:19

machine with an m one or an m two processor using

4:21

UTM as virtual machine software doesn't

4:24

boot. It just gives them a black screen.

4:26

This only applies to people who are,

4:29

a, making a new a Ubuntu virtual

4:31

machine. B, they're using a

4:33

Mac computer c, you

4:35

have the m one or m two processor and

4:38

d, you are using UTM, which by the

4:40

way are all great things. I recommend that. If

4:42

you are having this problem where you get the black screen

4:45

while installing Ubuntu, just go back to version

4:47

twenty two dot o four dot 01I

4:49

will put a direct download link in

4:51

the notes, which will download that specific ISO.

4:54

But again, that only applies to

4:56

people under those circumstances. Everyone else,

4:58

this probably means nothing. Next, numerous

5:00

people reporting that what's my name is not

5:02

working within the Ubuntu

5:04

build, and I was able to replicate this and

5:06

confirm this. This is something that seems

5:08

to be happening more often with

5:10

that application. When I was writing

5:13

the tenth edition of the OSINT book,

5:15

I had used what's my name in the ninth

5:17

edition, but I was having difficulty with

5:19

it with the tenth edition as well, which is

5:21

why I tried to introduce better

5:24

alternatives to that And

5:26

I think now that it's not working, we need

5:28

to really embrace those other options. My

5:30

preferred username Linux

5:33

lookup tool right now is Meg gray.

5:35

That is MAIGRET.

5:38

It is a fork of Sherlock which

5:40

is a staple which has been around for a long time, but

5:42

it adds numerous additional sites.

5:45

If you are using the tenth edition of the book and

5:47

you have the LinuxVM made,

5:50

you already have a username script and in

5:52

that script is May grey and it already

5:54

is configured to query all

5:56

twenty eight hundred sites that it

5:58

can query looking for a target

6:00

username on those websites. None

6:02

of those username search tools are perfect.

6:05

They all give you false positives. I

6:07

typically may gray can be a little

6:09

bit better, but if you're noticing that what's my

6:11

name just doesn't work anymore, it's it's it's

6:13

not just you, it's not just the script. It's

6:16

the the program itself. And

6:18

again, I'm recommending May Grey as an alternative

6:21

for that. Next, I added

6:23

a new option in the domain names

6:25

search tool on intel techniques dot com.

6:28

I added webscout, and that's webscout.

6:31

Io. It's a domain lookup

6:33

tool and it it's a very pretty

6:35

tool. It doesn't do a whole lot, but one thing

6:37

it does has helped me recently.

6:40

When you put in a target domain name,

6:42

it tries to conduct a query through a third

6:44

party API for any email addresses

6:47

involved in a breach at that domain.

6:49

Now that's never going to be complete, not

6:51

even close to complete, but what

6:54

it helped me do the other day was put

6:56

in a domain name and identify the

6:58

CEO's email address, which was not

7:00

a standard format like first name dot last name

7:03

or first initial last name It was something

7:05

a bit unique because the CEO probably

7:07

doesn't want a bunch of email. That helped me

7:09

identify the proper email to contact

7:11

the CEO of a company because That

7:14

person's email appeared in some data breach

7:16

and now this third party service was the only

7:18

domain research tool which presented

7:20

me an email address of my target.

7:23

So I'm adding it to the domain name tools.

7:25

You can go get that under the tools tab

7:27

over to inteltechniques dot com. Click on domains.

7:29

And you can use that or you can also do it

7:32

manually if you want to do a search on

7:34

that site. Again, not

7:36

anything too groundbreaking there,

7:39

but it was the only service which gave

7:41

me that one piece of information which I

7:43

needed and so we should always have

7:45

those. That domain tool is getting

7:47

quite long. But there's some good

7:49

stuff in it. Alright. Let's get into the main topic

7:51

of the show, which is mobile devices. This is

7:53

a show I've been teasing for a few weeks

7:55

now. And I'm going to

7:57

do my best to not

7:59

make this sound like an NPR

8:02

fundraiser show. Yes, I'm going

8:04

to promote the PDF we just released,

8:06

but I'm also going to give out a lot of

8:08

information from that PDF, which I think could

8:10

be helpful to people who are trying to

8:12

create a secure and private mobile

8:14

device. Let's recap just a little

8:17

bit. On the last show, I

8:19

stated that we would be releasing the mobile

8:21

devices PDF during

8:23

this show, which we are doing right now. I

8:25

stated that we had decided that we

8:27

would not be releasing a fifth

8:30

edition of Extreme Privacy this

8:33

year, and that brought up several conversations

8:35

of a, what's

8:37

the one thing that we would really drastically

8:40

change if we were writing a new book? And

8:42

b, what's the one service

8:44

we offer which people request

8:46

more than anything else, but then they either can't

8:48

afford it or don't come back to hire us

8:50

for that service. And that The

8:53

answer to both, by far is mobile

8:55

devices. There's a lot that's changed

8:57

since we wrote the fourth edition 290Extreme

8:59

privacy in regard to mobile devices, and

9:02

we hear from people every single day. Numerous

9:04

people every day saying, I need

9:06

help with a secure mobile device.

9:09

Most of them don't know that they want Android

9:11

or iPhone. They don't know that they need

9:13

a custom operating system. They don't have the details.

9:16

They just know that they need it

9:18

because either they have a problem or

9:20

they are realizing just how much of

9:22

their life they are giving up by using

9:25

these standard stock devices which we all

9:27

have been trained to use. So

9:29

that's why we got here. We decided,

9:31

well, we're not going to do another version

9:33

290Extreme Privacy as far as the fifth edition

9:36

this year. So we wanna do something what

9:38

if we tried to create a

9:40

smaller book, a more focused, a more

9:42

detailed book on one single topic,

9:44

which we could really dive deep

9:47

into, not worry about page limitations,

9:49

not worry about fitting it all into one chapter.

9:51

How do we do that and provide

9:53

it in an affordable way, in a

9:55

way that everyone can access it, and that's how

9:58

we decided, let's try a digital

10:00

edition. And that's what we've done. We have created

10:02

a single PDF file. It is

10:04

hundred and thirty five pages at eight and a half by eleven

10:07

full size paper and it has

10:09

sixteen CHAP which goes into

10:12

every facet, every

10:14

way that we build custom

10:16

devices for our clients. By putting

10:19

out a digital version, we really didn't

10:21

have to worry about any limitations. File

10:23

size doesn't matter. Page count doesn't

10:25

matter. We can go as deep into this as we

10:27

want and not have to worry about cutting

10:30

anything to make the

10:32

final book that we wanna make. So this is what we've

10:34

done. It is out right now. I will put

10:36

link in the show notes. We'll talk about it a lot

10:38

throughout this episode, but I want people

10:40

to know that it is available. The biggest

10:42

question, of course, is how much is it?

10:45

Fifteen bucks, and that purchase

10:47

also gets you updates. And that's, I

10:50

think, the big deal here. As I said last week,

10:52

this is not a buy it and we'll

10:54

talk to you next year and sell you something new.

10:56

It's a buy at once and anything we need

10:58

to change, anything we need to update, anything we need

11:00

to add, anything we need to remove, we can

11:02

do that and then just send out an email

11:04

blast to say, hey, new edition out.

11:06

Here's what's changed. If you want that, go get it.

11:09

This way, once you're in, you have

11:11

those updates without needing to buy

11:13

anything in the future. We actually released

11:15

this last week, but we did a

11:17

kind of a quiet release. I announced it on my blog

11:20

which a lot of people do follow because the podcast

11:22

is also fed to the blog, and

11:24

sales have been strong. I'm I'm

11:26

very happy with that. What I'm

11:28

more thrilled with though is

11:32

the names and the email addresses

11:34

being provided by the people buying

11:36

this extreme privacy book, easily,

11:39

at least ninety percent

11:41

of the sales are using either

11:43

masked or some type of

11:46

privacy related email addresses. I'm

11:48

seeing very few people use their true

11:51

email addresses that Gmail or that corporate

11:53

account and those who are doing that probably

11:55

aren't only doing that because they have to in order to get

11:57

reimbursed by their employer or something like that.

11:59

So I'm thrilled to

12:01

just see so many people using

12:04

alias or at least masked

12:06

information even from me that

12:08

that makes me so happy. It's also fun

12:10

to see the names. We we have to

12:12

ask for a name and email address and credit

12:15

card information because that's what our distributor requires

12:17

us to do. I don't care what name you put on there

12:19

as long as this charge through. doesn't matter to me.

12:21

I don't care what email address you provide as long

12:23

as it's a way to get a hold of you so that you can get

12:25

the updates. I don't even know your true

12:27

corporate or personal email address it's

12:29

great to see people using alias information.

12:32

The number one purchaser used

12:34

so far is John Doe followed by

12:36

my name, which just kind of creepy to see

12:38

come in. So kudos to all the people who are

12:40

taking their privacy seriously and

12:42

using that type of information. Several people

12:45

are already asking, will the current print books

12:47

on Amazon and the answer is yes. The tenth

12:49

edition of OSINT techniques and the fourth

12:51

edition 290Extreme They're still out there.

12:53

They're not going anywhere. We're just not doing anything else

12:55

with them. In an ideal world,

12:58

this will allow us to leave the Amazon

13:00

ecosystem and possibly move to this

13:02

new format for all future stuff.

13:05

The fifteen dollar charge for

13:07

the ebook covers everything

13:09

including the distribution, the credit card fees, etcetera.

13:11

And none of that goes to Amazon,

13:14

none of it requires any type of account to

13:16

be created. We are using our own

13:18

Stripe account for the purchases, so

13:20

your credit card information is only going straight

13:22

to Stripe. We don't even store that and

13:24

we cannot see your credit card details. You

13:27

can find many more details about this on my website

13:29

inteltechniques dot com, click on the books tab, scroll

13:31

to the bottom, you'll see the new option there.

13:33

And then the question comes, well, what's

13:36

next? We introduced this idea

13:38

of, could we do a series

13:41

of books on extreme privacy, digital

13:44

only, more affordable, and more

13:46

in-depth. I think that's a really good possibility.

13:48

We have to see how this goes first. I

13:50

wanted to do a book on our

13:52

brand new second

13:55

passport option, which is

13:57

a fast track option we've worked

13:59

out, which also includes an

14:02

optional foreign name change,

14:04

which does not reflect a US

14:06

name change, but my staff

14:08

says that would be such a

14:10

small niche community of people

14:12

who would be interested in that. And that might be

14:14

a waste of our resources. So we are probably

14:16

not going to do that. What my staff

14:19

brought up is if this works

14:21

out and if it's the new way we want to

14:23

do this. Let's start with ebooks on each

14:25

service we provide. So for example, the next two

14:27

ebooks could be the disappearance

14:30

kit or the dev kit. Let's walk

14:32

through the entire process of everything

14:34

we do, which I think would help a lot of people

14:36

who can't afford to hire us to do it for

14:38

them. Now, of course, my concern came up with,

14:40

well, wait, why would we put out a guide,

14:42

a detailed step by step guide on

14:45

how to do every service we offer, won't that kill

14:47

our business? And my staff immediately responded

14:49

with the people who hire us to

14:51

do this for them don't care that

14:53

there's a do it yourself guide out there for fifteen

14:56

dollars. They're hiring fessionals to do it because

14:58

they want it done a specific way, or they just

15:00

don't wanna do them do it themselves, which I completely

15:03

respect. And I think that That

15:05

makes sense. All that will depend on how this

15:07

goes. So if you are interested

15:09

in what we're talking about in this show and

15:11

all the details, please go check out the extreme

15:13

privacy, mobile devices, ebook.

15:15

And finally, lot of people contact us

15:17

and ask us how they can support the show. How can we

15:19

send two dollars a month to the show? Do you have a

15:21

Patreon or something like that? And we

15:23

don't. I don't like the Patreon style.

15:25

It's just not my thing. I don't like asking for

15:28

donations. That's not my style either.

15:30

So if you truly want to just support this

15:32

show, but we don't have a way for you

15:34

to do that, buy an ebook. That

15:37

works great for us. It's less money than

15:39

you would spend trying to do a Patreon

15:41

to support a show, but more importantly,

15:44

you get something out of it. I don't want to

15:46

just ask for donations to make this dumb

15:48

little podcast, I'd rather make a product

15:50

that I think you might like and that you might be able

15:52

to use and then sell you that for little

15:54

amount and let that support the show

15:56

and not ads. Or sponsors or

15:58

donations. Alright. My spiel is

16:00

over. Let's get into the main topic, which is

16:02

mobile devices. Let's start over.

16:05

Let's don't make any assumptions of anything

16:07

we knew before this show. Maybe lot

16:09

of you already have a private secure mobile device

16:11

and a lot of this is already known to you. That's okay.

16:14

Bear with us. Maybe there'll be something in there

16:16

which does send you to something

16:18

new you can research. My plan for

16:20

this show is to just go

16:22

through the book, not everything, not

16:25

every step, not all the technical details.

16:27

Let's go through the main topics throughout

16:29

the entire book, which will help

16:31

us maybe guide us into

16:33

what we care most about when

16:35

it comes to our mobile devices. Now

16:38

in the introduction, I already laid out,

16:40

I think, why we care. Frankly, I

16:42

don't think anyone's listening to this show who doesn't

16:44

care, but we are carrying

16:46

around tracking devices in our pocket.

16:48

Tracking devices which we bought with our own money

16:51

services which we buy and then we allow

16:53

all these different services and companies and whatever

16:56

to monitor what we do and

16:58

then use that to make more profits.

17:01

I don't like that business model, so I

17:03

do what I can to mock up those

17:05

results so that they don't really impact

17:07

me. That's the whole idea of this.

17:09

There have been several clients who have hired us to

17:11

help them make private and secure devices,

17:14

but we're not doing anything

17:16

special that you can't do

17:18

We are just other human beings using

17:20

the same services and same technologies and

17:22

same free software out there which you can use,

17:24

which is again part of the motivation to

17:27

make this book. Anyone can

17:29

make themselves a completely private and secure

17:31

device with completely private and secure

17:33

cellular access. If you just

17:36

put the time into it. I will put a link to

17:38

the book and show notes, but let's jump

17:40

into it in order to get some

17:42

actual actionable items

17:45

out of it. Chapter one of the book

17:47

is device selection. Now the

17:49

first two chapters of this book, a

17:51

lot of people might say they're not really needed.

17:53

And I I can kind of agree with you on that.

17:55

The first two chapters go into device selection

17:58

and OS installation. It's no surprise.

18:01

I like graphene OS. And when my

18:03

clients need a private and secure device, I

18:05

want them to have a graphene OS Android

18:07

device. So this book

18:09

is not just here's

18:11

how to install Graphina Less. You don't

18:13

need me for that. Their website does a much better

18:15

job at that. But the first two chapters

18:17

get into how should we pick device and

18:19

how should we install our custom operating system

18:21

on it. Now, let's start with picking a device.

18:24

I am a firm believer that if you want

18:26

a truly private and secure

18:28

mobile device, you have to get new hardware

18:30

because whatever hardware you're using which

18:33

has that cellular account in your true name or

18:35

you've done a bunch of stuff in your true name, whatever

18:37

it might be. It's dirty. It's

18:39

tainted. It's infected with

18:42

you. So getting a new device

18:45

resets that clock and allows us to set everything

18:47

up right so that we don't have that

18:49

contamination. Now, could you wipe

18:51

out your iOS device or your Android device

18:53

and start over, of course, but you

18:55

never get a clean slate. Apple,

18:57

Google, etcetera are always collecting unique

19:00

hardware identifiers on their stock equipment.

19:02

There's not a whole lot you can do about that.

19:05

In the book, I have the Apple versus Google

19:07

discussion very quickly.

19:09

It very right up front. In

19:11

my opinion, there is no such thing

19:13

as a private Apple iOS

19:16

device. Apple is collecting constant

19:18

telemetry from your usage. They

19:20

are pushing you to use their iCloud system.

19:23

That is storing your data on their cloud,

19:25

probably most of it's not encrypted. And

19:28

worse, they require you to

19:30

have an Apple ID with them

19:32

connected to your device in order to download

19:34

any apps and use the phone the way it's intended

19:37

to be used. You it's

19:39

extremely difficult. To use an iOS

19:41

device without an Apple ID, not

19:43

impossible, but almost. In

19:45

past shows, I have requested my data

19:47

from Apple and I was shocked to learn what

19:50

they were storing. I was shocked that they were

19:52

monitoring the last podcast I listened

19:54

to and how far got into it and when I quit

19:56

stopped, or when I stopped listening to it, they're

19:58

storing all of that. By forcing you to have

20:00

an Apple ID on your mobile device

20:02

that allows them to store all the information

20:04

about you in the way you use that device

20:07

in their network. Now, of course, they say they don't

20:09

share that, they don't sell it. Okay.

20:11

That could be true, but you're collecting it

20:13

which always leads to a problem whether

20:15

through a breach or through a real employee

20:18

or something else. The simple

20:20

matter to me is, I

20:22

don't feel I should have to create

20:24

some type of online account through a big

20:26

conglomerate such as Apple or Google just

20:29

in order to use device, which

20:31

I paid for. Because of this, Apple

20:34

is out for me. I will not use an iOS product

20:36

and I encourage my clients to do the same.

20:38

That leaves us with Google. Stock

20:41

Android devices are really no better.

20:43

You don't have to have a Google account to use

20:45

them, but you do if you wanna download apps from

20:47

the Google Play Store, Google is

20:49

going to collect a lot of your information. It's

20:52

going to collect it at the base of that

20:54

operating system, and it's going to send data

20:56

to Google constantly without

20:59

you really understanding what they're doing

21:01

in the background. Therefore, I believe

21:03

the only viable option for us

21:05

for those enthusiasts who want to go to

21:07

the extreme is Grafting OS.

21:09

Grafting OS is an open source operating

21:11

system. It is based on Android, but it is focused

21:14

on privacy and security. I

21:16

prefer it for several reasons. One,

21:18

it's just minimalistic. It's

21:21

simple. It's a very hardened

21:23

but very minimal operating

21:26

system. That's important to me. I don't want a bunch

21:28

of junk. I don't want a bunch of stuff

21:30

that I can't remove, I just want

21:32

the necessities and let me take over

21:34

from there. Every decision about graphene

21:36

OS is based on private use security, mostly

21:39

around security, but also privacy. So you have a lot

21:41

of options on the graphene OS devices,

21:43

which you don't have on stock android devices.

21:46

The biggest reason I like graphene

21:48

a less better than all the other custom

21:50

android operating systems, it's

21:53

the updates. Every week, I'm getting an

21:55

update from Graph OS from their servers,

21:57

which is patching up phone abilities, it's

21:59

adding new features, repairing features, fixing

22:01

minor bugs, I don't get that

22:04

kind of update from Apple or Google. I only

22:06

get it from GraphinoS. I will go as far as

22:08

to say, I don't know of any

22:10

other custom operating system

22:12

for any mobile device or any

22:15

stock operating system of any mobile device,

22:17

which issues updates as fast as graphene

22:20

OS. Really important to me. This is where

22:22

I'm going to offend a lot of people. They're going

22:24

to say that I should be looking at other operating systems

22:26

I have. I think I've looked at all of them. I

22:28

like graphene OS the best. And

22:30

I think it is the cleanest most minimal

22:33

option we have to start our

22:35

private and secure device. Therefore, chapter

22:37

one of the book gets into device selection, you're going

22:39

to need a new device. Currently, I

22:41

only recommend people buy either the Google

22:44

Pixel six, six

22:46

pro 6A7

22:48

or seven pro. Graphite OS

22:51

requires a Google

22:53

Pixel device because of the

22:55

way that we can get into it, unlock

22:57

the boot loader. We can clear out

22:59

all the Google junk from it. We can then install

23:02

our own operating system and relock that boot

23:04

loader in a way that you can't do with

23:06

say a Samsung or something else.

23:08

Also, Google Pixel devices are

23:11

the most universal for practically any

23:13

other custom operating system you want to try.

23:15

If you don't like Graph OS and you want to try

23:17

a different operating system, it

23:20

very likely will work with a Google Pixel

23:22

device when it might not work with that

23:24

that one note that you bought two years ago.

23:26

So I only recommend those five devices

23:29

because we can install graphene OS on

23:31

them. Now the four a and

23:33

the five, those would work

23:35

too, but they

23:37

stop getting updates from Google

23:39

at the end of this year, which means they're probably not

23:41

going to be supported by graphing OS

23:44

more than maybe the end of this year or

23:46

early next year. So If you're buying

23:48

a new device, I only recommend the five that I

23:50

mentioned because you have five years

23:52

of support from Google, which

23:54

translates to also having support from

23:56

graphene OS. If you get one of those five devices,

23:59

you're good for several years and you don't have to worry

24:01

about not getting those updates. Of

24:03

those five, I prefer the

24:05

Pixel six a. It

24:08

is the cheap model, but

24:10

I don't think that's quite fair. They are very

24:12

affordable. I bought a bunch of

24:14

six days during the holiday season when they

24:16

were on sale for two hundred ninety dollars.

24:18

The current retail price is four forty nine, but

24:20

I see them often for anywhere from three hundred to

24:23

three hundred dollars brand new, sometimes even

24:25

in store at places like Best Buy. You'll have

24:27

to do your research there. I like

24:29

the six a mostly because of size of

24:31

those five devices. It is the smallest

24:33

in size. I don't like these big

24:35

pop tart phones. I miss the

24:37

original SE size, that four point

24:39

seven inch screen or that four inch screen something

24:41

around there. I don't like these

24:43

six point four inch screens. The

24:46

Pixel 6a, I believe, is a six point one inch,

24:48

and it's not extremely big. It's bigger than I

24:50

like. But of the options I have, it's

24:52

the smallest one. If the Pixel

24:55

eight comes out at the end of the year and they are

24:57

they rumored to have a smaller device which might

24:59

happen, If that does happen, I would probably

25:01

go to that just for the size alone.

25:04

The six six Pro seven and seven Pro,

25:06

they have better insides than the six

25:08

a. But you pay a premium for that.

25:10

But here's my thing. We should not be using our

25:12

mobile phones as entertainment devices. We should

25:14

not be using them as gaming devices should

25:16

not be watching four k videos on them all

25:18

day. We should not be processing files

25:21

and photos on our devices. That's what computers

25:23

are for. If you are only going to

25:25

use your mobile device as a communications

25:27

device, the six a is

25:29

more than enough for resources to get

25:31

that done. So for me, The six a is

25:33

where it's at. That's what I use every day, and

25:36

it's the most affordable and smallest of those

25:38

devices. Now from there, the book gets

25:40

into in stalling, graphene OS. I'm not

25:42

going to waste your time with that here.

25:44

And you don't need me to tell you that anyway. I

25:46

I steal the instructions from their website. Just

25:49

go to their website, they can walk you through. The only

25:51

thing I do in book is I walk through the different

25:53

options and I I change things just

25:55

a little bit just on personal preference. But

25:57

it wouldn't matter much anyway. So let's move past

25:59

that and get to chapter three, which is device

26:02

configuration. A lot of this is personal

26:04

preference, but I talk a bit about how I prefer

26:06

to change my quick launch menu in graphene

26:09

OS. How I prefer to add the

26:11

microphone access and camera access

26:13

buttons to that for easy access, because

26:16

I can use software switches to disable

26:18

the microphone and all the cameras. This is

26:20

a huge benefit of graphene OS.

26:23

Yeah, we could put stickers on our phone, yeah,

26:25

we could put physical micros or

26:27

microphone blockers. And those

26:30

might work, and that might even be an extra layer.

26:32

But if you are disciplined enough to

26:34

use your phone correctly, graphene OS

26:36

gives you the option to disable your cameras

26:39

and microphones so that when any

26:41

application tries to use them, it has

26:43

to prompt you first and make sure you

26:45

are okay with that. I leave my microphone

26:47

and camera blocked all times am I graphing

26:50

OS? And when I need to turn it on, it'll prompt

26:52

me and say, hey, you've got a call coming in. Do you want to answer

26:54

this call? Do you want me to turn on your microphone? Yes or

26:56

no? I can make that call then.

26:58

I actually don't use physical

27:01

microphone and camera blockers much

27:03

anymore. I trust my device

27:05

and I trust the software more than

27:07

I would say an iOS device or a stock

27:10

Android device. So I walk through that a bit Basically

27:12

in this chapter, I'm just walking through some custom

27:14

changes. I've talked before about

27:16

I like to make my display monochrome when

27:19

I'm doing communications such as email or

27:21

messaging It takes some of that fun

27:23

away, but also think it takes some of that

27:25

temptation away from using my phone

27:27

as an entertainment device. I

27:29

walk through how I put a shortcut on my menu

27:31

bar for that to immediately turn it from full

27:33

color to monochrome. Again, personal

27:35

preferences here. Most people don't care about that.

27:37

I won't spend much time. But next, I

27:39

talk about browsers, and this is something that's

27:42

changed a lot for me. In previous

27:44

books, I talked about Firefox Focus,

27:46

great product, it's a mobile browser,

27:49

which allows you to immediately clear your

27:51

history when you exit it. It's got some nice

27:53

features in it. I actually don't use it

27:55

anymore. I now rely on

27:57

the vanadium web browser. That's

27:59

the default web browser included with Graphino

28:02

West. It is Chromium based, but

28:04

it does not send any data to

28:06

Google. My reasoning here is simply

28:08

that this option is

28:10

almost maybe even better

28:13

than Firefox focused. But more so,

28:15

it's I don't want multiple apps I need

28:17

to worry about. I don't want multiple layers of

28:19

potential vulnerability. If I just have one browser,

28:21

then I just have one thing to worry about and one

28:23

thing to keep updated. I also trust

28:26

the work that graphene OS has put into

28:28

it in order to make it as secure as possible.

28:31

Now, I do walk through the book on some additional

28:33

changes I make, and I won't go through all

28:35

those here. If you're interested, go check that out. But

28:37

basically, I do tweak

28:39

a few things which I think could be bit better,

28:42

but also that might not be best

28:44

for global audiences, I just think it's better for

28:46

this audience for those of us who are really

28:48

interested in this. So some modifications

28:51

there, slight then walk through some of the

28:53

camera settings I change, mostly just

28:56

eliminating the sounds. I don't want the shutter

28:58

sound to go off. That that can be embarrassing when you're

29:00

trying to get a photo and not

29:02

be seen doing it. I enabled the gyroscope

29:04

on the camera. So just some little

29:06

things like that. I talk about ring tones a bit.

29:09

Mostly because we don't want our phone

29:11

going off when we're trying to be discreet doing

29:13

something. From there, I talk

29:15

about contacts and how I maintain

29:17

contacts. The short story

29:20

here is I maintain my

29:22

immediate contacts within

29:25

the native contacts app

29:27

on Graphino West because I want all of

29:30

my communications devices to be able to

29:32

access that information. Everything from signal

29:34

to my pseudo or whatever, I don't

29:36

synchronize it to anything. I

29:38

keep all my contacts in the in

29:40

the native contacts app within Ubuntu,

29:43

and I can export them to AVCF

29:46

file from there and import them into my phone. So

29:48

nothing too crazy there. That's all some

29:50

pretty standard stuff. Let's get into chapter

29:52

four because this is where things I think actually

29:54

get important DNS configuration.

29:57

DNS is very important. We've talked about it

30:00

a lot. DNS is what takes a

30:02

domain name such as intel techniques dot

30:04

com and translates that to an IP

30:06

address so that when you go to intel techniques

30:08

dot com, your device knows to go to my

30:10

server IP address and grab my website.

30:12

DNS is extremely vital for

30:15

this whole Internet thing to function. By

30:17

default, the DNS provider

30:20

of a Graph OS device is whatever the

30:22

network is using. So if you are on

30:24

an AT and T network, then

30:26

your default DNS provider is AT and T.

30:28

They are doing your DNS queries for you.

30:31

If you're on your home WiFi, it's whatever your WiFi

30:33

is using. If you're using a stock Android

30:35

device, you're probably using Google as your

30:37

DNS. And sometimes even when

30:39

you have a VPN set up on your iOS

30:41

device, Apple's bypassing that and using

30:43

their own connection to get data. So

30:46

with graphing OS, we have actual

30:48

control of this by default. It's using

30:50

whatever your network uses, but we can

30:52

change that. In the book, I

30:55

talk specifically and I recommend next

30:57

DNS. I like this for two reasons.

31:00

One is it's a third

31:02

party DNS provider, which I trust. So

31:04

the queries are not being done by my Internet

31:06

service provider, who I know is going to abuse

31:08

them. It's being done by a privacy respecting

31:11

DNS provider. But that's not

31:13

the big reason I like them. There's

31:15

tons of privacy respecting DNS

31:18

providers. What I care about is filtering.

31:21

Fulfuring is where I can tell NextD

31:23

and S, hey, block

31:26

these one hundred thousand

31:28

known trackers, malicious

31:31

things, bots, ads,

31:33

etcetera, and don't let them ever

31:35

even come into my phone. Then when

31:37

I go to yahoo dot com and I load the page,

31:40

a lot of the junk doesn't load because next

31:42

DNS, my DNS provider isn't letting

31:44

that load. That's happening way

31:46

before an application would

31:48

be required on my device. Now,

31:50

in the past, I've talked about application

31:53

firewalls on a mobile device. I've

31:55

talked about block data on Android. I've

31:57

talked about lockdown on iOS.

32:00

I don't use any of those anymore. I

32:02

believe filtering by your DNS

32:04

is superior to an application based

32:07

solution. It requires less

32:09

overhead. It requires less layers to

32:11

go wrong, and it also doesn't conflict

32:13

with things like VPN applications, which

32:16

don't like it when you're trying to do a firewall in

32:18

a VPN at the same time. I have

32:20

no blockade a type

32:22

stuff on my mobile devices. I

32:24

use DNS to block it. The book gets

32:27

into a lot of detail about my exact settings.

32:29

I won't bore you with all that here. But

32:31

the more important thing is in the book, I'm able

32:33

to put lots of screenshots to say, while

32:35

you're configuring this, it should look like this.

32:38

Your should look like this. And if so, okay,

32:40

you're on the right track. Here's where you make that decision

32:42

on a, b and c. Default filtering

32:44

is great. But custom filtering

32:46

is where the real power is. And I

32:48

do some examples in the book to where I say, alright,

32:51

let's let's install an app, let's launch

32:53

that app, and let's monitor our

32:55

DNS requests, those DNS

32:57

queries coming out of our mobile device. That's

33:00

where we can see. Okay. That app has

33:03

some analytics stuff it's sending out.

33:05

That app has telemetry in it. Let's

33:07

block that. A lot of apps will

33:09

say don't don't

33:11

allow me to send statistics

33:14

out to my owner. Okay? They

33:16

often don't mean it. They still send stuff

33:18

out anyway. What we can do

33:20

with NextDNS is we can go in and say,

33:23

this application here uses Braze

33:25

to send analytical data their

33:27

headquarters. Let's block that connection because

33:30

it doesn't have anything. Head doesn't have any

33:32

impact on the usage. It doesn't restrict

33:34

me in any way. It's just sending data out that

33:36

I don't want them to have. So let's block that.

33:38

That entire chapter really gets into the

33:41

weeds of what to block, what not to block,

33:43

and I think that DNS

33:45

is probably one of the most vital

33:48

things that is overlooked by people

33:50

creating a private secure device. You

33:52

could have the most private and secure mobile device

33:54

ever invented on the planet and then go

33:56

to Facebook and let them start tracking what you're

33:58

doing and you've lost so much of that.

34:01

With DNS, we can say, don't

34:03

ever connect to any face book domains. I

34:05

don't want that, leave that out. Finally,

34:07

Next DNS allows us to disable the

34:09

login completely once we know everything is set

34:12

up the way we want it. Once you can see that everything's

34:14

running, you're not adding bunch of new stuff to your device,

34:16

you can turn that logging off completely so that

34:18

there's not this constant documentation of

34:20

every website or every domain that you're going to,

34:23

we can just disable that, which

34:25

you can't do with your ISP. Chapter

34:27

five gets into push services. I talked about

34:29

this bit the last couple of shows.

34:32

Push services allows us to

34:34

get notifications on our devices. That

34:36

typical Apple iOS or Google

34:38

device which you have is getting push

34:40

services through Apple or Google in

34:42

order to tell you, hey, you just got a text message.

34:44

Hey, you've got a VoIP call coming in. Hey, you've

34:46

got this alert over here. Now,

34:49

in the past 290Extreme Edition,

34:51

I was pretty strong on we

34:54

don't need this stuff. We If

34:56

you go this far to create an ungoogled

34:59

device, you don't need to introduce

35:01

Google back into the mix just so that you can know

35:03

every time someone texts you. From a

35:05

personal view, I still kind of

35:07

stand by that, but that's because I don't

35:09

need push services. I don't need

35:11

to be notified of incoming text messages or

35:14

emails. I check them when I can

35:16

check them and I don't want my phone buzzing,

35:18

dinging, ringing, etcetera, whenever

35:20

I'm not ready to check my communications. I

35:22

have adopted a pull lifestyle

35:25

instead of a push lifestyle. However,

35:27

that doesn't work for most of my clients.

35:30

And frankly, I I it shouldn't

35:32

work for most people. Let's if you're

35:34

if you have children in school and they need to

35:36

get a hold of you via tech or a phone call, but you don't

35:38

have any kind of push services, so you can't be ready

35:41

for that. That could be very damaging.

35:43

So I completely respect that

35:46

most people cannot and probably should

35:48

not completely eliminate push services

35:50

from their mobile device. It's what makes

35:53

these things smart. Of all of my

35:55

clients who have embraced graphene OS

35:57

as an ungoogled mobile device, I

35:59

would say over ninety percent of them have push

36:01

services enabled, and I am completely okay

36:03

with that. I just don't use it in my

36:05

life because I don't need it. Most

36:08

people need it, and frankly, most people want

36:10

it. So I dedicated an entire chapter

36:12

to push services, but let's talk about the

36:14

the brief version here. For on Google

36:16

devices, you have pretty much two options. You

36:19

have micro g, which is an open

36:21

source, mostly open source version

36:23

of Google's drivers on your device

36:26

at the operating system level, which will allow

36:28

your device to receive notifications and any

36:30

push services. And then you have

36:32

the stock Google push

36:35

services, the Google framework but

36:38

in a sandboxed environment within

36:40

graphene OS. That is the way I

36:42

prefer it. If you're going to use push services,

36:46

I believe the implementation in Graphino

36:48

West using the actual Google

36:50

push services but sandboxed

36:52

into a limited application, which doesn't

36:54

have root access to your entire device, is

36:57

superior than putting micro g

36:59

and letting it have unfettered access

37:01

to everything. That statement has upset

37:03

a lot of people. I can hear your keyboard

37:05

typing right now. This is just my opinion.

37:07

You might disagree. I think

37:09

using Graph OS and enabling their

37:12

push service implementation is

37:14

the way to go if you need it. It's also extremely

37:16

easy to disable any time you want. This

37:18

becomes extremely important when you

37:20

need to accept VoIP phone

37:23

calls or you need to be notified of emails or

37:25

text messages, which we get into quite a bit in

37:27

the book, I already see that I'm supposed

37:29

to be at about the twenty minute mark here,

37:31

and we are way past that. So let's keep moving

37:33

on this. Again, the book is more detailed.

37:36

I'm just trying that overview of what we

37:38

care about when it comes to mobile devices. The

37:40

bottom line here is most people

37:43

I know who embrace Graph

37:45

OS also embrace Google's

37:47

push services in a sandbox limited

37:50

way through GraphinoS. I

37:53

think that's the best way to do it. Next, chapter

37:55

six is application installation. And while

37:57

I'm upsetting people, let's continue that train,

38:00

I still recommend F droid

38:03

and Aurora store. Now

38:05

every week, at least once a week,

38:08

someone e mails me and says you really

38:10

need to stop recommending f Reuters or Aurora

38:12

store. There's all kinds of problems. There's all kinds

38:14

of They're bad bad things. They're borderline

38:16

malicious. Blah blah blah blah. Almost

38:19

every single one of those emails refers

38:22

to one single blog post

38:24

of person who seemed quite

38:26

upset at Eftroid and outlines

38:28

all the problems everything from their websites

38:30

ugly too. They don't update it enough. My

38:32

stance is this. If you are truly

38:35

worried, about being tracked

38:38

in any way possible on

38:40

a mobile device, then you should not

38:43

be using a mobile device. If

38:45

you're expecting absolute perfection

38:48

of no application knows anything you're ever

38:50

doing on this thing and no cell phone company

38:52

knows anywhere you are, then a mobile device

38:54

is not for you. We have to have some realistic

38:57

expectations. Now, the blog post

38:59

I'm talking about, their solution, instead

39:01

of f droid and Aurora Store, is

39:03

to install the Google Play Store,

39:06

sign in to your Google account, and just download

39:08

your apps from Google, which I

39:10

don't see any way that

39:12

is better from a privacy perspective. The

39:15

whole point of a Graphino's device is you

39:17

don't need a Google account in order to use it.

39:19

So connecting your Google account

39:21

to your device in order to avoid using

39:23

something like F droid. I don't

39:25

get it. Maybe you disagree and that's

39:27

fine. For most people out there that

39:29

just seems backwards to me. So

39:31

chapter six walks you through proper eff joint

39:34

installation, proper eff storage configuration?

39:36

What should we turn off? What should we change? How

39:38

should we do the Aurora Store? What do we need to change

39:40

to make Aurora Store work on any other website?

39:42

Which one's the Google Play Store? It's

39:44

stuff I've talked about before. Some of it

39:46

is in extreme privacy fourth edition.

39:48

I just tried to update that and really make

39:51

everything step by step. So

39:53

you there's really no leniency

39:55

there to maybe make the wrong decision.

39:58

Again, these are my opinions and they might not

40:00

be yours, but the book tries to give you

40:02

here's the way I do it from my clients and you can

40:04

adopt or adapt from there. That chapter

40:07

also gets into using NextDNS

40:09

while you are in stalling your applications to

40:12

see what they are doing behind your back

40:14

and blocking that when necessary. Let's

40:16

fast forward a bit here and let's talk about chapter seven which

40:18

is cellular service and this is where

40:21

we start to get into, okay, now that we have

40:23

this device, now that we have it set

40:25

up the way we want it, how do we connect

40:27

it because we need that cellular service. Now,

40:30

this chapter is the one chapter

40:33

which is heavily focused for US audiences

40:35

because that's what I know, but the other

40:37

chapters get into more international considerations

40:40

as well. I do talk about mobile,

40:43

which is a T Mobile reseller. I still

40:45

think that's one of our best options because

40:47

we can provide any alias name we want.

40:49

We can provide masked debit

40:51

card payments through something like privacy dot com. We

40:53

can use secondary credit cards. And

40:55

we're not buying it directly from T Mobile. We're buying

40:58

it from a reseller. I think that's important.

41:00

Not only because they don't verify information you

41:02

give them, but also we have at least one

41:04

small, very thin layer between

41:07

us and the telecom themselves.

41:09

The big difference here from previous

41:12

writings is we have adopted

41:14

the eSIM option more

41:17

than the physical SIM. In the past, I've always

41:19

talked about, you get a physical mint

41:21

SIM card or whatever service you use, get your get

41:23

your SIM card, have them send it to you, have them ship it to

41:25

you. Okay. Well, now we have connection to our home

41:27

address or to a PO box or something where

41:29

we have access. With

41:31

the eSIM, we can order our service

41:34

online, we can program it and be ready

41:36

to go that day without ever giving a home

41:38

address or even a PO box in the area

41:40

you live. Now part of that might

41:42

be pointless because the cellular provider

41:44

is going to know what towers you're connecting to

41:46

they already know what general area you're in, but

41:48

I don't have to give them physical address.

41:51

For most of our clients, we

41:53

issue eSIMs and program their

41:55

phones, we don't rely on physical SIM cards.

41:57

I explain a lot about that process, about the

41:59

programming process. It's not too complicated,

42:02

but some services make it harder than others.

42:04

Specifically, I talk about some problems with However,

42:07

you can get a right now,

42:09

it's a thirty day free trial with

42:11

an eSIM. I can get on chat

42:14

with Met Mobile on a website behind

42:16

a VPN and have one month of free

42:18

cell phone service without giving them any

42:20

real information about me or

42:23

any kind of payment. That's quite nice.

42:25

I also talk about other providers. I talk

42:27

about telo, TELL0, which is an

42:29

option I've used. They are also a

42:31

T Mobile reseller, but you can buy just

42:33

a number. You can buy just data. You can

42:35

buy limited data. I have clients

42:38

who have nine dollar monthly plans

42:40

through telo that's all they need for

42:43

everything that they need for that phone. So I

42:45

walk you through some of those options. I'm

42:47

not a total meant fanboy,

42:50

especially if they're going to sell out the T Mobile,

42:52

so we have to have other options. I try

42:54

to be a bit more fair in this writing

42:56

to include many more options which

42:58

might give you a wider range

43:00

of choices. The other beauty of eSIM

43:02

is we can have multiple accounts. I can have

43:05

five cellular accounts, each with their own

43:07

e SIM programming, and I can enable and disable

43:09

each one one at a time and use any tower, any

43:12

service I want. I talk a lot about secondary

43:14

accounts, affordable secondary accounts,

43:17

and how you can have multiple real

43:19

cellular numbers, but can never connect

43:21

to that cellular account. We can use WiFi

43:23

calling. We there's all kinds of options here.

43:25

I have clients who want

43:27

a burner true cell phone number, which

43:29

they can provide to their bank when they have to log in,

43:31

but they don't ever want that number to connect

43:34

to a cell phone tower and be connected to that profile.

43:36

So we can just disable that when we don't need

43:38

it. So you have a lot of options with

43:40

graphing OS and with the Pixel. You

43:43

have a physical SIM slot, but you

43:45

also have that eSIM slot which you can

43:47

program and that just opens up

43:49

so many new opportunities especially

43:52

when we get into data only plans which we'll talk

43:54

about in just a moment. I do also talk

43:56

about AT and T and Verizon. I'm not stuck

43:58

on T Mobile. I know that their service isn't

44:00

great everywhere in the country, so I do give

44:02

you some options for them. And again, they're

44:04

pretty cheap at about fifteen bucks a month

44:06

for everything you would need. Overall, that

44:09

chapter is just designed to say here

44:11

are some options you might not have

44:13

known about with eSIM

44:15

stuff. And and also here's the way that GraphinoS

44:17

will allow you to disable not only your

44:20

but also your physical SIM, which is another important

44:22

thing. I can disable both my physical

44:24

SIM and my e SIM. And then if my phone

44:26

ever leaves airplane mode for whatever reason,

44:29

yeah, I'm probably going to be throwing out some

44:31

signals there. Yeah, I'm probably gonna be

44:33

sniffing around the the closest tower.

44:35

But my physical SIM card,

44:38

which is an connected to an account is not going

44:40

to connect. And my eSIM account,

44:42

which is not going to connect because

44:44

it's disabled, it's not just broadcasting,

44:47

hey, here I am. So my phone's out

44:49

there, but my accounts are not out there. So

44:51

I think that's another nice feature we have.

44:54

Most devices tell you if you want

44:56

to disable the physical SIM card,

44:58

remove it. Graphina West, let's

45:00

just say, no, just toggle that switch off

45:02

and don't connect that card anymore. I

45:04

like that feature. Alright. Chapter eight gets into VoIP

45:06

service. VoIP service.

45:09

A lot of this is brought over

45:11

from Privacy Fourth Edition, but a

45:13

lot of it is also new. Now,

45:16

I've talked before about VoIP. This is

45:18

where we can buy phone numbers, Internet

45:21

based true phone numbers, and we

45:23

can set up an account with a service

45:25

which allows us to use that phone number for

45:28

phone calls and text messages, but

45:30

it's not a cellular number. It's not connected

45:32

to a cell phone tower. It's not It doesn't

45:34

know where we're at at all times. It's not

45:36

tracking our location. I

45:38

rely on VoIP telephone numbers at

45:41

all times. I don't ever use my true cellular

45:43

number because that's connected to my location at all

45:45

times. So I use voice over IP

45:47

numbers. Now in the past, it's

45:49

been Twilio versus Telmex.

45:52

And it still is Twilio versus

45:54

Telmex. But before we get into that,

45:57

I get into domain registration. If

45:59

you plan to make a Twilio

46:01

or Telmex VoIP account, you're

46:04

going to have to convince them that you

46:06

are worthy of paying them money for their

46:08

services. They only want businesses. If

46:10

you sign up with a Gmail or a Protonmail or

46:13

forbid a to Tenoda email,

46:15

your account's gonna get suspended. They're not gonna give

46:17

you access. So I talk bit in this book about

46:19

what we do every client

46:21

when they get a new device, they also get a new

46:23

domain with wild card emailing so

46:26

that they can have a what appears

46:28

to be a business, a true business domain

46:30

to sign up for services. What I

46:32

talk about in the book specifically is how to

46:34

find dropped domains, not

46:37

expired domains, dropped domains,

46:39

which had a business reference, which

46:41

had a history on all the services, which these

46:43

companies use to vet their customers to

46:46

basically bypass all of

46:48

these all the scrutiny to

46:50

see if you really are a business. I won't get

46:53

into every detail here on a public show, but

46:55

it is in the book to talk about here's

46:57

the easiest way to get a business

46:59

domain which has been around for fifteen

47:01

years. It's got stuff on archive dot

47:03

org. It's got stuff and all the marketing SEO

47:06

type stuff. And when you take it over, you can

47:08

now be the owner of that and use wildcard email

47:10

addresses for that and probably

47:12

pass the scrutiny of places such

47:14

as Telmex and Twilio. We're not

47:16

doing any fraud. We just want to

47:18

pay them to buy their service. Unfortunately,

47:21

today, you have to prove you're worthy

47:24

of that. It's just the way it is. So

47:26

talk very specifically how you can spend nine bucks

47:28

a year and have unlimited use of

47:30

a an existing vetted

47:32

business domain, including

47:34

all of the email forwarding as well. You do not

47:36

need a host for that. After

47:39

that, I get into all the VoIP stuff.

47:41

So let's jump into that now. I still prefer

47:43

Twilio for all of my VoIP

47:45

needs. When you see

47:47

third party providers that offer a burner

47:51

application or second line, whatever it might

47:53

be, They're just buying Twilio numbers

47:55

and upcharging you for it. So many

47:57

people constantly say, oh, you should recommend JMP

47:59

chat because you can buy a phone number

48:02

for only three bucks a month. Yeah, but

48:04

they're just getting it from Twilio for dollar

48:06

a month. I'll just go get it from Twilio for a dollar

48:08

a month, not pay the extra two dollars a month and

48:10

have the exact same number and the exact

48:12

same service I could ahead, I'm just cutting

48:14

out the middleman. So I don't like

48:16

a lot of these middleman applications when

48:18

I can just go do it myself. Now

48:21

I walk through all of the settings

48:23

currently for Twilio, which

48:25

includes ringing your phone.

48:28

And past, I've used Lynnphone

48:31

in my books to talk about using

48:33

voice over IP to make and receive telephone

48:35

calls. I do not use Lynnphone on a mobile

48:38

device anymore. Their desktop applications

48:40

I have a use for still, but

48:42

I don't like Lynnphone for iOS

48:44

or Android to just not reliable anymore.

48:47

I have switched one hundred percent to

48:49

SIP and ETIC, I

48:51

believe. And the book walks through

48:53

every setting. If you are using Symptic

48:56

for your VoIP calls and you're having an issue,

48:58

it's a configuration. And the default

49:00

configuration is not good enough. So I do walk through

49:02

all the details and you can kind of play with them if

49:04

you want to get it right. But basically, symptomatic

49:08

with Twilio even or Telmex should

49:11

absolutely reliably ring

49:13

your phone when a call comes in as

49:15

long as the background service is running

49:17

on your device. And you do not need push

49:20

notifications for that to happen. That's

49:22

why I like Symantec. I can leave that on

49:24

and I have dozens of phone numbers

49:26

through various VoIP providers, and all of them

49:28

will ring my phone and I can answer a call,

49:31

which is not possible on services

49:33

which we rely on push occasions.

49:35

That's why I like hyphenetic for that. Again,

49:38

I get into a lot of detail there. As

49:40

far as Twilio, most of the steps

49:42

from privacy fourth edition work

49:44

I did have to tweak a couple of things,

49:47

mostly because Twilio has changed their menus,

49:49

but nothing more than that. So a

49:51

lot of that is going to be recycled from

49:54

the fourth edition, including setting everything

49:56

up for SMS. I still

49:58

prefer to forward my incoming

50:00

SMS call or SMS text

50:02

messages from Twilio or Telmex

50:04

whoever to email. I don't

50:07

need to ever send SMS messages

50:09

from those accounts. That's not what that's for.

50:12

And that is going to cause more scrutiny with

50:15

the VoIP services. They might want you

50:17

to register as an email sender like

50:19

a a marketing person and we don't want that.

50:22

I use voice over IP through

50:24

Twilio and Telmex for receiving

50:26

voice calls, making voice

50:28

calls, and receiving SMS

50:30

text messages via email. That's

50:33

it. That's the way I recommend that most

50:35

people use them. That brings us into Telmex,

50:37

which I've had a love hate

50:40

relationship with both Twilio and Telmix. I've had

50:42

my problems with both of them, more

50:44

so Telmix in the past. There

50:47

there are some pros and cons of Telenex.

50:50

The pro is simply is cheaper. You

50:52

you pay a bit less per month

50:54

for a number. But

50:56

there are some cons. Telmex

50:58

will only give you an account if you are a confirmed

51:00

business, but that's probably pretty fair to say

51:02

with Twilio now too, so that's a wash. My

51:05

biggest complaint about Talnix is they

51:07

no longer provide any actual

51:09

customer support. You can open a support

51:11

ticket and you will get canned messages and then

51:13

they will close the ticket and you will not actually get

51:16

help with your problem. I've seen that time and time

51:18

again. Telnex does not

51:20

provide voice mail. Twilio does. Telnex

51:23

does not allow you to delete your user

51:25

logs. Twilio does. That's kind

51:27

of a big one for me. My other big gripe with

51:29

Telenex is they will suspend your paid

51:31

account with a balance on it if they don't

51:33

like what you're doing. And when

51:35

that happened to me, I ask them

51:37

about why it happened and I was ignored.

51:40

Now, if you have a Telmex

51:42

account, great. There's no reason

51:44

to leave them. If you have a Twilio

51:46

count, great. No reason to leave

51:48

them either. If you had to choose one, I

51:50

think Twilio is the better option.

51:52

However, I'll explain this in a moment,

51:54

but I had conversation with the Telmex CEO

51:57

OSINT, and I really I think

51:59

I overwhelmed him with my frustration about his

52:01

company, and he is he has reinstated

52:04

a an affiliate link,

52:06

which will give you twenty dollars in free usage.

52:09

And then it gives me my test account,

52:11

which we do our research with twenty dollars

52:13

that we can use for free too. I don't get any money

52:15

from them. We just get free credits that people use it.

52:17

So I put that in the book. Whether

52:20

it works or not, I don't know. They've kicked my

52:22

affiliates out several times, so who

52:24

knows if this will be any better? If you have neither,

52:26

I would start with Twilio and see if it meets your

52:28

needs. If you can't get Twilio

52:31

account, I would try Telmex. They might be a bit

52:34

a bit less scrutiny now. I don't know

52:36

because I don't really have a good way to try that,

52:38

but you do have options. Most

52:40

people if you're like me, you want

52:42

both and you want some funding within

52:45

both to have redundant options. I

52:47

think that's always great too. So I also

52:49

walk through configuration, next

52:51

configuration with sat Sipanetic and

52:54

basically the exact same thing we had in the book

52:56

just with updates. I do

52:58

talk about my pseudo MySuedo is

53:00

a VoIP reseller. Basically, they

53:02

have an app which will let you have up to nine

53:04

telephone numbers, all isolated within

53:06

profiles. You can make calls. You can

53:09

receive calls. You can send text. You can receive

53:11

text. Financially, it

53:13

is cheaper to get Twilio

53:15

numbers through my pseudo than

53:17

to buy them yourself because they buy

53:19

in book. The big problem

53:22

with my pseudo is you have

53:24

to have another device which

53:26

does have either Google services or Apple

53:29

services in order to pay for your account.

53:31

I have been talking with the CEO about

53:33

resolution possibly to this I don't

53:36

have anything to report right now, but it's

53:38

on their radar. So if you want my suit

53:40

on your graphene OS device, you have

53:42

to pair it with another device

53:45

which has that same my pseudo connection

53:47

on it and a way to pay for it such as

53:49

through Google Pay or Apple's App

53:51

Store. If a solution comes up for

53:53

that, I think I'll be one of the first to

53:56

know and therefore you will be one of the first

53:58

to know about it. What do I do?

54:00

I do have my suit on my graphene OS

54:02

device. And it works great.

54:05

And if I enable Google's push services

54:08

sandboxed within Graphite

54:10

OS, calls come through just fine. I

54:12

get notified of text everything works great

54:14

except I can't renew. So what I do

54:17

is I have an old iPhone SE original,

54:19

old school and it has one app

54:21

on it, MySoto. And once a year, I

54:23

OSINT that app, I boot that phone up, I charge

54:25

it, I open the app, I renew my

54:28

subscription to MySoto, I

54:30

use a gift card

54:32

to fund the account. And then when I renew

54:34

that, since I've paired those two together,

54:36

it automatically renews my graphics device.

54:38

And I don't turn that phone on for another year.

54:41

I know that's getting maybe out of scope

54:43

for some people, but my suit is the

54:45

easiest of all these options and it's actually

54:47

the cheapest. So I understand the

54:49

need for it. I have one

54:51

of everything, so I want Twilio, I want Telnix,

54:54

I want my suit, I want all these options

54:56

because I like the redundancy. The book also

54:58

talks about porting. I won't get into that.

55:00

Nothing new really has changed there. It also talks

55:02

about VoIP suite. I've talked about

55:04

that before. It's the open source application

55:07

created by a member of my online

55:09

video training. They now have

55:11

a an Android app,

55:14

which does work on Graph OS. It has its own

55:16

push services in it. Right

55:18

now, it's not on Android yet, but

55:20

they have submitted to that. So I haven't tested

55:22

it fully yet, but I do have just a blurb

55:24

in there of if that

55:26

makes sense to you, go do it. allows you to send

55:28

and receive text messages from

55:30

Telmex or Twilio within

55:33

an app with notifications instead

55:35

of using the email route. So haven't tested

55:37

that thoroughly. I don't know how the app

55:39

works compared to the web based app.

55:42

But it still requires you to set up

55:44

on your own self hosted online

55:46

server, which most of my clients just said

55:48

we don't wanna deal with that. So they

55:50

would rather just get the email. I picture this show

55:52

running an hour even, and we're not

55:54

even, guess, we are halfway through. Alright.

55:56

Let's keep pushing through You're tired of my voice.

55:59

Maybe pause this and pick it up tomorrow, but let's keep pushing.

56:01

Let's talk about chapter nine data service.

56:04

This is something brand new I've been using. A

56:06

lot of my clients don't want a traditional

56:09

cellular account. They don't want that mobile

56:11

T Mobile AT and T Verizon account.

56:13

They want something that doesn't have

56:15

a phone number attached to it. They just need data. They're

56:17

not using their phone number anyway. Why am I paying for this phone

56:20

number? I'm never using it. I just need some data

56:22

and I don't need a whole lot of it. So I do

56:24

talk a bit about data only

56:26

service plans. These are providers which will

56:28

say, we'll sell you data

56:30

and you can use that data on your device any way

56:32

you want it. And then when you're out, you're out and

56:34

you buy more data or you don't. You

56:36

don't need a phone number. You don't need a commitment.

56:39

You don't need a contract. You don't need anything.

56:41

You don't need AutoPay every month,

56:44

just buy data when you want the data, and

56:46

there are some very valuable uses

56:48

for that. There are plenty of online providers

56:51

which are resellers which will sell you

56:53

this data. These a lot of these are ran out

56:55

of Hong Kong, and they have contracts with

56:57

all the different carriers all over the world, and

56:59

they're designed for travelers. If you are person

57:01

going to the UK, your AT and T

57:03

might not work there, so you might want to buy a

57:06

UK provider just some data for the

57:08

week, that way you have access to your mobile

57:10

device. I don't use

57:12

those providers too much. Instead, I

57:15

use cellular services by

57:18

Twilio and Telmex. You

57:20

can buy physical SIM cards from Twilio

57:22

and Telmex, which you can pop

57:24

into your device, and they can

57:26

access data from any

57:28

major carrier. So if you're in the US,

57:31

wherever you are, it will connect you to the closest

57:33

AT and T T Mobile Verizon,

57:36

maybe US cellular tower, and let

57:38

you use that tower only for data,

57:41

and then pay per megabyte at

57:44

those providers. And this whole chapter walks you through

57:46

that entire process. There are many considerations

57:48

here. I have many warnings about it,

57:50

but it does work for a lot of people. What

57:53

I like is to have it as a secondary

57:55

or backup option. I prefer

57:57

Twilio over Telmex because Twilio

58:00

has international capabilities and

58:03

Twilio allows eSIM programming.

58:06

On my Graphio's device, I have an

58:08

OSINT for Twilio. I can

58:10

be anywhere in the world, turn that

58:12

on and have data, and I pay ten

58:14

cents per megabyte, which is a lot So

58:16

if you're going to do that, please heed

58:18

the warnings in the book about limiting your

58:21

background data, turning off auto updates,

58:23

make sure that your phones not downloaded

58:25

much of data in the background eating up

58:27

all of your ten cents per megabyte and now you

58:29

have this big bill and you're pissed off

58:31

at me. Telmics is

58:33

cheaper, much cheaper. It's

58:36

one cent per megabyte and

58:38

only two dollars a month for access

58:40

instead of three dollars month from Twilio,

58:43

especially if you want the Verizon Towers. Again,

58:45

we're we're we're over on time, so

58:47

I won't get too much into it. The book has much more

58:50

detail on that. What do I do?

58:52

I use Twilio for all of my international

58:54

data and I use Telmex

58:57

for a lot of my domestic data as a backup

58:59

if I don't want my account

59:01

through t mobile slash mint for

59:03

whatever reason. The best part for me is

59:06

I can go to any country, connect to their cell

59:08

towers, Those cell towers know

59:10

my device. They get a unique ID.

59:12

They know my OSINT but they don't know

59:14

who I am. Instead, they are

59:16

billing Twilio for my usage and

59:18

Twilio is just deducting it from my balance.

59:20

And if you're careful and only turn on your phone when

59:22

you need to access your email, when you need to make a signal

59:25

call, when you need to check an instant message, you

59:27

don't use that much data if you're not doing

59:29

other things in the background. I've

59:32

I took a month and relied just on

59:35

one of these programs and it was like nine bucks

59:37

for the month. It was actually cheaper than my

59:39

subscription. So you have to be careful

59:42

but if you're only using your phone for communications

59:44

and not watching four k video, you

59:46

could get by on one of these alone and not

59:48

have any phone number assigned to your account, which really

59:51

reduces a lot of issues. It

59:53

eliminates the possibility

59:55

of a SIM swap because you don't have a phone

59:57

number to even start the account with. With,

59:59

and the eSense can only be programmed one

1:00:01

time. You can't change those anyway. It

1:00:04

also prevents a lot of tracking

1:00:06

which can be done based on your cell phone number

1:00:08

because you don't have a cell phone number. You

1:00:10

have an account, but you might be connected

1:00:12

to an AT and T tower for five minutes and then connected

1:00:14

to a Verizon tower after that. So

1:00:17

you are a much smaller needle and

1:00:19

a much larger haystack. But again,

1:00:21

there are many warnings with this, so

1:00:24

don't just jump into that. Read

1:00:26

everything and understand all the warnings before

1:00:28

you say whether or not that might be for you.

1:00:30

Alright. Let's fast forward. This is getting

1:00:32

way too long. Chapter ten, secure communications,

1:00:35

I talk again about my

1:00:37

preferences, water, signal, whatever it

1:00:39

might be, proton male, to to nota,

1:00:42

any kind of settings. But a lot of that has

1:00:44

not changed and we've talked about so much of

1:00:46

this on the show. I don't feel like we need to revisit

1:00:48

every part of it. You probably have

1:00:50

already established your preferred secure

1:00:53

communications. If you have not, then you should

1:00:55

do that right away. I

1:00:57

prefer signal for most things because

1:01:00

it's the easiest for other people

1:01:02

to use. It's the easiest for my

1:01:04

friends and family to adopt versus I

1:01:06

had to remember a password for wire,

1:01:08

what? I don't just text me. Signal

1:01:11

is just the easiest for conversion in my

1:01:13

opinion, but you can read about some issues

1:01:15

there. Chapter eleven gets into VPN configuration,

1:01:17

but This is not a show about

1:01:19

VPNs. This is a show about mobile

1:01:22

devices. The only thing I do talk in

1:01:24

there about with mobile devices is

1:01:26

how I always have VPNs ready

1:01:28

on my mobile device because of issues

1:01:30

I've run into. For example, if I'm

1:01:32

in a country, which is not supported

1:01:35

by say my pseudo. I

1:01:37

can't make a phone call on those numbers because

1:01:39

I'm on that country's IP address. But I

1:01:41

can launch my VPN, connect to a US server,

1:01:43

and now I can use my pseudo again. So those things

1:01:45

are important. I talk a lot about clients

1:01:47

who have they have to use their banking

1:01:49

app on their phone. They have deposit checks,

1:01:52

they have to transfer money, whatever. Every

1:01:54

time they log into that banking app, it checks

1:01:56

for VPNs. They they now need a VPN,

1:01:59

which has a dedicated IP address, which

1:02:01

can bypass that restriction. So

1:02:03

we have some situations where

1:02:06

you absolutely need a VPN on

1:02:08

home, but I do also talk a lot in that

1:02:10

chapter about how I am not always connected

1:02:12

to a VPM on my device. My device

1:02:14

isn't calling out to Google and Apple. I don't worry

1:02:16

about that. My device service is not connected

1:02:19

to my name at all. Do I care

1:02:21

that T Mobile knows I'm checking my

1:02:23

proton mail? I don't care. It doesn't.

1:02:26

Tell them my content. They don't see anything about

1:02:28

what I'm doing. I don't care that T Mobile

1:02:30

knows that Mobile has

1:02:32

sold a prepaid plan to

1:02:34

an anonymous person who happens use

1:02:36

proton mail. That doesn't hurt

1:02:39

me in any way. So one thing I talk about

1:02:41

in the book is that I don't always use

1:02:43

a VPN on my mobile device. If it's not

1:02:45

necessary and that's gonna really

1:02:47

exceed the scope of this show. If you want more details,

1:02:49

obviously, it's there. I talk a bit about device

1:02:51

customization, how you might

1:02:53

want a different launcher for your phone. Graphiness

1:02:56

is great. It's minimal. I don't like

1:02:58

their default home screen. I want to fit more eye

1:03:00

icons on it. I want to customize my icons.

1:03:03

I want to change the name. I want to show

1:03:05

labels on my applications in the

1:03:07

doc. I don't want truncated names.

1:03:10

So I talk about options

1:03:13

for custom launchers. I

1:03:15

talk about long chair two a bit,

1:03:18

which is it's

1:03:20

no longer maintained. It's now being taken

1:03:22

over. It's now a launcher twelve, I believe, but it's

1:03:24

an alpha. It's not ready for

1:03:26

widespread use. So I'm still using launch

1:03:29

chair to and

1:03:31

I'm using the version from Aurora

1:03:34

Store, not the lawn chair version in f

1:03:36

drawer, which is even more outdated. I talk

1:03:38

a lot about the confusion there, but I like

1:03:40

long chair two as

1:03:42

my custom home screen. It

1:03:45

allows me to really change the way it looks.

1:03:47

I give examples, but it allows me to

1:03:49

control my icons. It allows me to control my labeling.

1:03:51

It allows me to control how many I can have on my

1:03:53

screen. That's important to me. It

1:03:55

might not be important to you, but it's really important

1:03:58

to my OSINT. So that's something to

1:04:00

consider. I also talk about how

1:04:02

to create a screen on your device,

1:04:05

which you can swipe to, which has all

1:04:07

of your phone numbers visible. Because if you

1:04:09

are like me and you've got twenty five VoIP numbers

1:04:11

used for different things. And then the dentist

1:04:13

asks you, hey, what's your phone number?

1:04:16

I can't spot that off. I don't have them

1:04:18

all memorized, so I have sheet sheets

1:04:20

on my phone. I do that by downloading

1:04:22

simple notes, making the note

1:04:24

and putting a widget on my

1:04:27

home screen to the right, which I can swipe to and

1:04:29

see whatever number I need right away. Let's

1:04:31

talk profiles. Your graphene OS

1:04:33

device allows you to have multiple

1:04:35

profiles This allows you to boot

1:04:37

into different instances so to

1:04:39

speak of your device, and you can have

1:04:41

applications in one profile which are not available

1:04:44

in the other profile and vice versa.

1:04:46

This has been official. When you have

1:04:48

an application which is kinda

1:04:50

dirty, maybe you need Google Maps.

1:04:52

You've gotta have Google Maps. I respect that.

1:04:55

I don't want that in my home profile,

1:04:58

but if I had to have it, I'd probably put it

1:05:00

in a secondary profile so you could

1:05:03

do that. Also, you

1:05:05

could have a secondary profile. And

1:05:07

in that profile, maybe you have enabled Google

1:05:09

Push services and you have Google Maps and

1:05:11

all those things you need. And then ninety

1:05:13

nine percent of the time, you are not booted into

1:05:16

that profile, instead you are booted into your home

1:05:18

profile. But when you need those services,

1:05:20

you could always go to them without dirtying

1:05:23

up your entire device. Full disclosure,

1:05:25

I do not use profiles. I don't need

1:05:27

them. They're fun. They're

1:05:30

neat. I just don't need

1:05:32

it. And for me, it's more about

1:05:34

simplicity and reducing

1:05:36

complication. But if you want

1:05:38

profiles, of course, you can look at that too.

1:05:41

Chapter thirteen, maintenance and troubleshooting. It

1:05:43

really just goes over updating your device,

1:05:45

battery drain issues, backup issues.

1:05:47

How do you deal with your photos? How do you deal with

1:05:49

notifications? Again, we've talked about that

1:05:52

lot already, but I tried to spell

1:05:54

out the things you're going to most commonly

1:05:56

have problems with. If I'm going fast

1:05:58

here, it's because we have exceeded. Our

1:06:01

our mark for the week. Chapter

1:06:03

fourteen, daily usage, best practices.

1:06:06

Again, things we talk about a lot in the show. I just

1:06:08

get more into faraday bags which

1:06:10

we've talked about recently, proper

1:06:12

usage of your device. One thing I have changed

1:06:14

my tune a bit on is the secondary

1:06:17

device. Years

1:06:19

past, I talked about having

1:06:21

a secondary device, but the reason was

1:06:24

I was relying on an iPhone mostly.

1:06:26

I was relying on an iPhone while I traveled and

1:06:28

I was relying on an iPhone or an actually an iPad

1:06:30

touch in my home. I don't want to

1:06:33

knock down this concept ahead of having

1:06:35

two devices, one, which connects to cellular towers

1:06:37

while you're out. And one which you use in your home

1:06:40

which never connects to a cellular tower to have that

1:06:42

isolation, but I don't do that anymore.

1:06:44

And the reason is I trust graphing

1:06:46

OS. If you can be

1:06:48

disciplined enough to

1:06:51

turn off your microphone, turn off

1:06:53

your cameras through the software

1:06:55

and graphics OS, and disconnect

1:06:58

your cellular connection before you get

1:07:00

home. I see no

1:07:02

reason to have a secondary mobile device

1:07:04

in the house. What I do,

1:07:07

at the same spot, when I used to drop

1:07:09

my phone into a Faraday bag before I get to my

1:07:11

house, I turn off my camera, turn off my microphone,

1:07:13

and go into airplane I do that real quickly for my

1:07:15

quick menu, and then I go home. And

1:07:18

when I get home, I connect to my WiFi.

1:07:20

I'm okay with that. Only because

1:07:22

I'm on graphics device. I would never do that

1:07:24

on a an Apple iOS device.

1:07:26

I would never do that on a stock Android device,

1:07:29

but I will do it on a custom ungoogled

1:07:31

Android device. And I think

1:07:34

that that eliminates a lot of the issue I

1:07:36

hear people saying about the complications with

1:07:38

having two devices. I don't know

1:07:40

that we need that anymore. If you're using

1:07:42

iOS, I think there's a very valid reason

1:07:44

to have that. Every time you reboot an iOS after

1:07:46

an update, it turns on your cellular connection,

1:07:48

turns on your Bluetooth, it It screams to

1:07:50

the world, hey, here I am. Where are you? And

1:07:53

you can't do much about that. Over the past

1:07:55

two years, I've updated my Graphino's

1:07:57

device numerous times, which involved

1:08:00

a reboot and not one time

1:08:02

did it disable airplane mode

1:08:04

due to a reboot. So I trust it more than

1:08:06

I do iOS devices. There's still

1:08:09

cases for everyday bags in

1:08:11

our life. There's still reasons to have

1:08:13

them, but I no

1:08:16

longer push my clients to the dual

1:08:18

device lifestyle and just have one device

1:08:20

in the house and one device out. It's

1:08:22

up to you on whether or not are

1:08:25

you that disciplined to do it right? And

1:08:27

I talk in the book about that in a bit more

1:08:29

detail, but I just want people to

1:08:31

know that if you're going to do that, great. Just

1:08:33

make sure you're doing it right. Make sure that you're

1:08:35

doing it right for your situation,

1:08:38

not anyone else's. Let's fast forward.

1:08:40

Chapter fifteen reset and reversal. It just

1:08:42

walks you through, let's say, you bought that

1:08:44

Pixel. You hate graphene OS, or maybe

1:08:46

you're going to resell it. You you you bought a new one and

1:08:48

you wanna sell this old one. Well, you need to wipe all that

1:08:50

stuff out. And doing a a reset

1:08:52

on your GraphinOS device just resets GraphinOS.

1:08:55

So that chapter just walks you through. Here's how to

1:08:57

get that stock pixel android

1:09:01

stuff back on your device so you can resell

1:09:03

it or whatever. Again, nothing

1:09:06

special there. You can get those instructions

1:09:08

on the Graphiness website. You don't need me for that. Chapter

1:09:10

sixteen is Apple iOS considerations, and

1:09:12

it's basically for Everyone's

1:09:14

still reading who's decided, I'm not

1:09:16

going to use an Android phone. I'm going

1:09:18

to use an iPhone. Fine. No

1:09:20

judgment. At least do this.

1:09:22

And I walk through all the settings that

1:09:25

I recommend on existing and new

1:09:27

iPhone devices to make sure you're at least as private

1:09:29

as you can be. Since this

1:09:31

show is more about making a truly

1:09:33

private and secure device using something

1:09:35

like graphene OS, I won't go through all those.

1:09:38

Also, It's a hundred and thirty five

1:09:40

page book with sixty thousand words. I can't

1:09:42

fit it all into a show and also

1:09:44

I want to provide some value to the people who are

1:09:46

actually going to buy it. Speaking of

1:09:48

that, if you think

1:09:50

any of this is interesting, if you want

1:09:53

to create your own graphene OS device,

1:09:55

if you want to dive in and do it the right way,

1:09:58

please check out our digital guide. It's fifteen

1:10:00

bucks and that includes updates.

1:10:02

So when we need to change something, you will get notice

1:10:05

to update. That being

1:10:07

said, you have to give me some type

1:10:09

of email address where I can send those updates.

1:10:11

It should be a masked email address.

1:10:14

It should be a forwarding email address.

1:10:16

It should be something that I can't search

1:10:18

about you and get all of your information. It

1:10:21

should be something that you designate to this

1:10:23

purpose. We talked about that a lot. Simple login

1:10:25

offers a free plan that'll give you masked

1:10:27

email addresses. The important thing is whatever

1:10:30

you decide to use, just make sure you have access to

1:10:32

it in the future because I'm confident

1:10:34

this book will need

1:10:36

updated and it will get updated often.

1:10:39

When it does, I want you to get the free updates

1:10:41

so that you have that and you can see

1:10:43

what's changed. Obviously, this book

1:10:45

is going to be pirated. It it's probably pirated

1:10:48

already. I don't care. Not worried

1:10:50

about that. It wasn't the piracy that that bothered

1:10:52

me with digital books It was the counterfeiting

1:10:55

that we had to constantly battle on places

1:10:57

like Amazon. We're not offering this

1:10:59

as a print book, so we don't have to we don't have to

1:11:01

really deal with that as much. So of course, it'll

1:11:03

get pirated, and you could download pirated version,

1:11:05

but you don't get the updates. And

1:11:07

the pirated version might be ten editions old

1:11:10

by the time you hear this. Who knows? So

1:11:12

what we're trying to do is provide value to people who

1:11:14

actually support the show. If you wanna support the show,

1:11:16

buy an ebook, hopefully it provides some value

1:11:18

to you. But we want to also say

1:11:20

Thank you for not pirating it. So therefore, we're

1:11:22

going to give you free updates every time we have

1:11:25

something to add to this. And we want to apply that to

1:11:27

whatever books we do in the future. If we do a

1:11:29

book just on complete

1:11:31

disappearance kit. Okay. Well, if you buy that book, you

1:11:33

should get all the updates for that topic.

1:11:35

That's the business model I want to switch

1:11:38

to because that takes me out of Amazon.

1:11:40

And that's really where I wanna be. Wow. Okay.

1:11:42

This show way too long.

1:11:45

Hopefully, you got something out of it and maybe you got

1:11:47

some ideas of what you wanna do. My

1:11:49

true goal is it encourages

1:11:51

you take the leap. You don't have

1:11:54

to be stuck with iOS. I think you'd be surprised

1:11:56

if you can just devote thirty days to

1:11:58

an ungoogled operating system such as Graph

1:12:00

OS on a secure and clean device,

1:12:03

I think you'll forget all those things

1:12:05

you thought you needed from Apple. I

1:12:07

think you'll like this better. think it'll feel

1:12:09

cleaner. I think it will feel like

1:12:11

you're not sharing as much information. It might

1:12:13

even feel faster. If you're ready to jump

1:12:15

in, please go check out our new ebook.

1:12:18

It walks you through every single step

1:12:20

of the process. Alright. Thank you.

1:12:22

Now I get to go disappear myself.