i guess securescuttlebutt is what you’re referring to.

your best bet would be i2p

i have a poco f1 and alcatel idol3. both are ready for daily driving. i think idol3 is a little better than the pinephone despite being a 2016 phone, and poco is just amazing performance-wise. i have microg on poco and pmos on idol3, trying to migrate my whole workflow. apart from camera, everything’s working quite smoothly.

you can’t get a sim card anonymously here, and i believe that’s the situation in other places. and even individuals selling their phones make some ownership transfer papers.

it’s very hard to stay anonymous on mobile. our best bet is still desktop/laptop.

did you downvote your own post :)

“illegal activities” doesn’t always mean buying crack cocaine, or whatever. depending on where you live it can mean:

accessing wikipedia, forming communities, performing union activities…

in other words, the ruling class of your country decides something being threatening their power, and that becomes an illegal activity.

of course everyone can be tracked. also everyone is not julian assange, so i’m not so worried about using tor for “illegal activities”.

i am intrigued, can you give an example of a vulnerability as a result of no microcode updates?

i think you have it the other way around. usually windows is more prone to/attacks than linux. for a program to be installed system-wise, or a program to make system changes it has to have sudo privileges, and you would definitely be prompted for a password then.

but if you want people you share your files to be protected, you can by all means use an antivirus.