It may be a NSA sponsored phone, but, who knows....
Once trust in the "power" is lost it will not come back
Oh, what a beautiful world we had
Unless you can change your IP and obfuscate or spoof your device ID, I don't see anything special about this thing.
Seems like a trojan horse phone. It's probably got C_A/F_I baked right into it. Additionally, it still uses the Big Tech mobile phone infrastructure so I'd hardly called it "uncensorable" or "private".
You are correct. Telecom specially does not enable call encryption because state players require intercept capabilities.
Sims can be cloned.
The radio CPU is completely black boxed. More info: https://poal.co/s/conspiracy/396514/f277105d-068f-4616-be4f-9474ee9ef43b
Anything that goes over any common carrier is vulnerable. I posted the article for the LULZ.
FreedomOS is just a custom Android ROM with a new/third party app store.
It IS open source though so at least you could in theory verify: https://github.com/agravelot/FreedomOS
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