On Fri, October 16, 2015 8:02 pm, dean wrote: > What kind of smart phone?
That is what I wish to learn. If samsung televisions have a microphone, what surveillance should we expect of a samsung smartphone which has both microphone and camera? Instinctively, I distrust microsoft and apple. Besides, with apple you are paying also for a status symbol. And is microsoft capable of writing better software for a phone than it writes for a desktop? I am looking for guidance as to which smartphones provide reasonable privacy and security. Of course, reliability and battery life are very important. An article I saw a week or so ago said that samsung has one of the best antenna systems, because it is designed to direct radio-frequency energy away from the head of the user. > If its android there are apps that can run debian in a chroot > eg lildebi and if you want the most from your phone I recommend > installing cyanogenmod - that gives you a lot more control over > your phone. Modifying the operating systim is a realm with which I am not familiar, and likely do not have sufficient time to explore. What I thought might be a good alternative to a smart phone would be to use my old flip-open phone for voice calls and get a cellular modem which can interface with the ethernet port or usb port of a laptop or tablet. Then if I can find a computer which is much less bulky than the typical laptop, I could run Debian on that for Internet access on the road. But a typical laptop is entirely too big to be used in a car. Russ
