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Smartphone Hardening. Privacy advice? (lemmy.today)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey guys, I have a Google Pixel 8a Smartphone. It is a Degoogled Pixel 8a, currently with Calyxos. Is this the best custom ROM for privacy + security?

I also need to try to make it an Hardened phone. Not a Spy phone..not a Surveillance phone. Basically trying to make it an safe phone, anonymity phone.

What VPN could I use for this phone, and is there any other guides or settings guides you can recommend me.for my phone?

The sim card is a kyc one but im stuck with it.

Thank you.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

I feel that, I just wanted to set your expectations. I prefer and will continue to use CalyxOS but I have no expectation that they will deliver the same level of protections/mitigations at the OS side as Graphene given their project scope is different.

CalyxOS aims for a private, yet simple (attainable) Android experience, and I align more closely with their ideology on having a FOSS replacement for Google Play Services in MicroG.

I suppose one thing you could levarage is work profiles on Calyx to "jail" apps you do not trust, though I'm not sure that meaningfully builds upon Android 15s own application sandboxing.

Perhaps as a long term goal you could look into making a custom fork of CalyxOS for your device and incorporating parts of Graphene's hardening but this will be a lot of work.