clean up this text into prose - cell phones are the most powerful
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tracking devices ever created
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they can be used by governments and
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corporations to know where people are in
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real time
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listen to their conversations through
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the microphone and see what's going on
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around them
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through the camera it's important to do
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everything that you can to reduce how
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closely you're being tracked
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not just for your own freedom and
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liberty but also to protect your
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identity
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because while all of these corporations
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are so focused on collecting as much
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data as they can about you as possible
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they're doing a horrible job of securing
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it
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once they have it almost every single
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day we're hearing about some company
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getting hacked and having all of the
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personal data of their customers
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leaked onto the internet all companies
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from social media to
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cellular carriers and even public and
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government-owned entities are guilty of
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this
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so i'm going to show you how to mitigate
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the smartphone
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the primary point of data collection in
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your life
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so to start off you're going to need to
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get a new smartphone
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because all phones come with an imei
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which uniquely identifies
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that device so this number is going to
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be associated to
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everything that you've done on your
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phone already the imei
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and or serial number also gets scanned
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whenever you purchase
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a phone whether you buy it in person or
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online
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so you're going to want to use cash for
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the purchase
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and not a credit card or anything that's
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going to have your name on it
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this should also go without saying but
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don't finance your phone
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through a carrier because that's going
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to require you to give them
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your name address and financial details
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to
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open a line of credit with them so if
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you want to get a brand new phone
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buy it unlocked from the manufacturer
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with cash
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another option that i really recommend
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is to get a
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used phone from someone else which can
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save you a whole lot of money
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and it also reduces e-waste try to find
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someone ideally a town or two over
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on craigslist to buy the phone from them
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with cash
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i wouldn't really recommend buying it
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from somebody close to you like a friend
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or relative
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because that's going to be pretty easy
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to trace back to you
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now as for the type of phone to purchase
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ideally you're going to want an
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android phone that you can root and
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de-google
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because we want to mitigate big tech
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tracking us as well as government
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tracking us
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in companies like google samsung sony
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and apple
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they all install spyware on their phones
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by default
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if you aren't tech savvy enough to root
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and de-google a phone yourself
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you may be able to find someone to help
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you do it or
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you could purchase a phone that ships
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with a private operating system by
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default
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like the pine phone or the librum 5
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phone
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one final important note is that if
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you're going to
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root and de-google the phone yourself at
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home
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make sure that you have wi-fi turned off
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on
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the new phone you purchased whenever
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that phone is in or
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around your house and especially never
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connect it to your wi-fi
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also do not connect your phone to any
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devices
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that have windows or mac os running on
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them
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i'll go over why at the end of this
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video
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now that you have a privately obtained
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phone with a private operating system
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it's time to get private cell service
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now
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this part of the video is going to
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mostly apply to americans
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because in most countries they require
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you to show
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id whenever you activate any kind of
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cellular service
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so for people in those countries your
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only other option
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would be to get somebody else who you
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trust
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to go and get this sim card for you or
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you can purchase a pre-activated sim
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card
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for cash that works in your home country
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online apparently there's services that
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offer that
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but i have no idea how reliable the sim
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cards are but here in america you're not
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required to
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give an id to get cell phone service you
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don't need to give
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an address for the service and you don't
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need to use your real name
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and you can pay in cash for the service
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i would also
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recommend if you're going to do it this
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way to add a few months of credit to
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your account
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in cash because the only way to
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continuously pay this
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is to go to the cell phone store and pay
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in cash so
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that'll save you a couple of trips
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another option if you don't need to use
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a whole lot of data is to just get
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prepaid phones
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uh so with these you're not paying month
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to month like you would with standard
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cell phone service you're just paying
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for
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a certain amount of data usually if you
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stay
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under four or six gigabytes or so
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this ends up being cheaper than paying
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month to month for an unlimited plan
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now that you have a private phone and
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sim card
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don't put the sim in the phone just yet
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you're going to want to make sure you
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activate that
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in a secure way you've already put so
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much effort into keeping personal
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information
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away from this device so you don't want
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to ruin it by
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activating it near your house or
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activating it
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when your other cell phone is in your
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pocket because
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if a new phone comes online at your home
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address or if it comes online right on
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top
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of this phone that's already identified
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as yours
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then the cellular company is going to
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assume that new phone
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is yours also i recommend activating the
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new phone
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somewhere that has a lot of people like
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in a fairly public place but
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that doesn't also have too many security
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cameras so
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public park or beach would probably be
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ideal
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and leave your old phone at home when
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you go to that place to activate it
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so congratulations you now know how to
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get a private smartphone and cellular
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service
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so now let's go over some operational
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security tips to
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keep things that way you don't want to
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associate this phone
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with any of your personal information
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you don't want to log into any emails or
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accounts that you have created
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previously
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instead you want to be creating new ones
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from this phone
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uh this should also go without saying
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but don't go taking selfies and posting
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to social media from this phone
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that's going to ruin your opsec it's
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also a good idea to
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not consume the same kind of media on
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this phone
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or at all through streaming services
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because
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those can uniquely identify you as well
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like there's a good chance if you look
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at
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all of these specific things you watch
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on spotify or
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youtube they're probably different than
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other people so if you must consume
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media on this phone
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make sure that you download it on a
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separate device
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and then load it onto that phone you
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should also avoid
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any applications and services that will
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try to track you
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so don't use anything made by amazon
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google facebook microsoft and so on
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if you de-googled your phone you
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shouldn't have the google play store on
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it anyway
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so if you just stick to apps that you
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can get in the f droid store
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you should be relatively safe and you
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should also keep your private phone
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disabled and disconnected from any
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networks
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whenever you have it near your home your
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place of work
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or when you have your old smartphone
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near you you should also disconnect the
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private phone when you're in your car
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if it has built-in gps satellite radio
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you know anything you want to keep your
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private phone away from
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any non-private devices that are
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connecting to any kind of network
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because from the cellular company's
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point of view they can see
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exactly where you are in the world when
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your old phone is connected to cellular
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towers
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or when your satellite radio goes and
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pings the satellite
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even if the sim is removed and cellular
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service is
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off on your device it can still make
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e911 calls
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so it's still able to ping cell towers
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um
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so if they see that old cell phone or
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that satellite radio
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side by side with some anonymous cell
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phone
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that's obviously not going to remain
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anonymous for very long
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so to prevent this you can make sure
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that you only have
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one device on your person at any given
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time
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and you should also start incorporating
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the use of
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faraday containers or if you want a
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cheaper alternative
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tinfoil now we are going to be putting
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the tin foil on our heads to try and
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block reptilian mind control waves
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but rather we're going to be using it to
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block electromagnetic signals
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to our phone this is including cellular
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wi-fi bluetooth and radio signals
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you can try this at home connect your
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phone to a bluetooth speaker while
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you're streaming something
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and the moment that your phone is
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wrapped in tin foil
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the connection is going to drop so while
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your private phone
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is charging or it is in your home at
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rest
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keep it in a faraday container last
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we'll talk about connecting your phone
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to other devices so this usually tends
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to be necessary
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in order to root your phone uh you want
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to make sure that whatever device you
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are connecting
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to isn't going to be sending information
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about your private phone
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somewhere so this is why i don't
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recommend using windows
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to root your phone because microsoft is
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collecting data about
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any device that connects to your window
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machine as well as
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any applications that you run in windows
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so
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for routing and loading any kind of
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media onto your phone
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i would recommend using a free open
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source gnu
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linux distro so there you go that's how
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to obtain
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and use a private smartphone be sure to
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like and share the video
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not from your private smartphone of
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course to help other people find it
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and rid themselves of corporate tracking
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as well