3 tips for increasing privacy of your mobile device

[SigTyr]

Since there are already post about cybersecurity in here, I will contribute those 3 tips that I find useful.

First one:
Cover your front camera
Ducktape is not a best puck for a phone, I recommend this

Second one:
Microphone jammer
For Android device.
In passive mode it will "book" the mic process, so other apps won't access it

In active mode it will generate noise. Useful when you have a real-life conversation with a person who has a compromised phone, just put them close to each other

Third one: if you need to use an application you don't trust, you can run it in separated environment. I put bunch of memes there and fake contracts, so if I need to an app like jewbook it wil only access that.

P.S If you install vpn and enable killswich, you will have separate environment that won't work without vpn

Shelter

If you running firmware without jewgle services you need to access apps that depend on them, use VMOS.
It is a virtual machine.

One downside, it's Chinese and not open source, but you can mask it as any device and use apps normally. To avoid logging in in jewgle install Aurora Strore from F-droid inside virtual machine

 

[The Alchemist7 [SG]]

Since there are already post about cybersecurity in here, I will contribute those 3 tips that I find useful.
First one:
Cover your front camera

I saw on youtube a video with a guy who was showing how the webcam of his gaming laptop could see through the plastic cover of his TV remote. You can try to search `webcam sees through plastic` or something similar, the video has millions of views. This is why I think that plastic sliders are not safe to cover the front camera. Probably many laptops come with plastic webcam sliders to give people the illusion that their camera is covered so nobody can see them.

 

[SigTyr]

Since there are already post about cybersecurity in here, I will contribute those 3 tips that I find useful.
First one:
Cover your front camera

I saw on youtube a video with a guy who was showing how the webcam of his gaming laptop could see through the plastic cover of his TV remote. You can try to search `webcam sees through plastic` or something similar, the video has millions of views. This is why I think that plastic sliders are not safe to cover the front camera. Probably many laptops come with plastic webcam sliders to give people the illusion that their camera is covered so nobody can see them.

I looked at this video (alienware laptop), it appear to have an infrared night vision and it's not clear what type of plastic is covering this.

Infrared cameras are capable to see through some materials, like sony camera in 1998 that was able to see trough some clothes, mostly black ones.

Most of the phones are not equipped with infrared night vision frontal camera, so I think using plastic covers will increase your privacy.
Of course you can completely remove the camera or use nokia 3310