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+ How to setup the secondary phone?
+How to have a phone for anonymous use?
WARNING: Best preferred Android ROM is GrapheneOS. If you REALLY NEED a secondary phone and it is compatible with LineageOS, you can proceed with it, but remember, you WILL NEED to @@ -230,36 +241,192 @@
- - Check if the secondary phone you want to use is compatible with
- grapheneOS/lineageOS or not. Only proceed if it is. Otherwise, don't use a secondary
- phone at all.
+ - Get yourself a grapheneOS phone.
+ Only proceed if you get one. Otherwise, don't use a secondary phone at all.
- - Back up any important data and flash your phone with grapheneOS or LineageOS after a
- factory reset and check if it booted in your new ROM. DO NOT CONNECT TO ANY WIFI OR
- CELLULAR NETWORK. Now switch your phone off.
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- - When you're about to leave for the protest, go far away from both - your home and
- the protest site; and factory reset your Graphene/Lineage ROM phone again and
- connect to nearby wifi from the WiFi list you got from openwifimap.
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- - Put the phone in a faraday bag at all times when not in use. Learn how to make
- Faraday bag Get a decently reviewed Faraday bag on amazon. However its recommended to buy
+ it physically with cash
+ or learn how to make Faraday bag here, here, or here.
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WARNING: Make sure to check whether your faraday bag works on not at your
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+ WARNING: Make sure to check whether your faraday bag works on not at your
home prior the protest by putting your or someone else's phone inside it with
- cellular data and gps/location enabled and trying to call/track it.
+ cellular data and gps/location enabled and trying to call/track it.
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+ - Back up any important data and flash your phone with grapheneOS or LineageOS after a
+ factory reset and check if it booted in your new ROM. DO NOT CONNECT TO ANY WIFI OR
+ CELLULAR NETWORK. Now switch your phone off and immediately put it in a faraday bag,
+ making sure its completely sealed.
+ Its is good to disguise the faraday bag as a normal envelope or put in a bag to
+ avoid high-level suspicion.
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+ Next steps (a) & (b) are for accessing internet anonymously ONLY AFTER you have completed
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WARNING: Make sure to check whether your faraday bag works on not at your +
+ WARNING: Make sure to check whether your faraday bag works on not at your home prior the protest by putting your or someone else's phone inside it with - cellular data and gps/location enabled and trying to call/track it.
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a. Accessing internet anonymously - eSIM
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+ - Dress up all black and go to a random place insignificant to you, get your phone out
+ of the faraday bag, and connect to a public wifi.
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+ - Download tor browser in your grapheneOS
+ phone.
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+ - Via the tor browser, with some monero, purchase an eSIM from https://silent.link,
+ and activate it on the secondary phone.
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+ - Make sure that while you're doing this, you're not under any security surveillence
+ (cameras, law encorcement buildings, etc).
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+ - Once you validate that the eSIM works, disconnect from and forget the public WiFi
+ network, power the device off, and put it in the faraday back again right away.
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⚠️ Although eSIM method works well, you need to remember that + the moment you activate it, the systems start tower-triangulation right away and + doing it anywhere close to your + location of interest might be potentially risky. You also need to be careful NOT to + switch it on at your own home by any chance, + or you could hear the bang on your door soon. This is why its best to use open public + wifi.⚠️
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b. Accessing internet anonymously - public wifi
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+ - There are multiple advantages to use tools like openwifimap to find public WiFi cafe networks
+ to connect to.
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+ - If for some reason the app/website does not show free open WiFi around your area,
+ you might want to go for a walk like a normal person just to grab some coffee and
+ note down the password without any suspicious movements.
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+ - Make sure to install f-droid on your grapheneOS
+ and install tor
+ browser and orbot vpn from it.
+ Check "Setting up package managers" section of this to be guided through how to install
+ fdroid securely.
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+ - Go in your grapheneOS settings and search for 'VPN' , find and select more options
+ for orbot vpn after opening the orbot app once and giving it permission to start a
+ VPN.
+ Select the option to set orbot as an "Always-on VPN" and turn on "Block all
+ connections not using this VPN".
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+ Install Mullvad VPN and proceed with the same steps to block all connections not
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+ ⚠️ Although Mullvad is one of the very
+ few trustable VPNs out there, we can NEVER trust a single entity so its better
+ and free to use orbot. ⚠️
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+ + Install Mullvad VPN and proceed with the same steps to block all connections not + using Mullvad. + +
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+ ⚠️ Although Mullvad is one of the very + few trustable VPNs out there, we can NEVER trust a single entity so its better + and free to use orbot. ⚠️
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Now whenever you are outdoors onto doing something sensitive, being unidentifiable with the + uniform and your gear, you can take the phone out of the faraday bag, power it on and use + it.
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+ +A trusted, decentralised communication platform for discussing things about the protest is the most important thing. Despite having all
+ the proxies and anonymization tools in your hand, if the Law Enforcement already knows about the people going to protest, they can arrest them prior the protest.
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+For sensitive communications while outdoors, it is suggested to use SimpleX chat with disappearing messages turned on.
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Anonymous Communications
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A trusted, decentralised communication platform for discussing things about the protest is the most important thing. Despite having all
+ the proxies and anonymization tools in your hand, if the Law Enforcement already knows about the people going to protest, they can arrest them prior the protest.
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+ This is why you need a secure, decentralised, end-to-end encryption based messaging platform.
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An extensive guide on how to use and why to use PGP encryption in messengers can be found here.
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Simplex Chat
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