“Chief, we got a citizen here with a suspiciously small online footprint. Investigate further?”
replyUsing GrapheneOS makes you a terrorist now. I'm a terrorist.
replyWe're all terrorists here.
replyOwn a general purpose computer you can run arbitrary software on, not just corporation and government approved software? You're clearly a money laundering drug trafficking child molesting terrorist.
Friend of a friend retired several years ago from Intel. He'll go into detail about all the ways you're being spied on. He won't let you into his house with a smartphone; you have to turn it off and leave it in your car.
replyI used to think he was just paranoid...
> He'll go into detail about all the ways you're being spied on.
replyDon't doubt it for even a second.
> He won't let you into his house with a smartphone
replyHis mistrust might be about the phone's owner and the recording apps they might use, more than the smartphone itself.
Socially it's much safer to direct suspicion at "the smartphone" rather than the people invited to your house.