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Buy your FREEDOM PHONE for only $500!
Or buy it from AliExpress for $120.
The maker claims it has a "special secure operating system" that won't report back your personal info to 'the mothership'. Except the phone runs Parlour, Signal, Facebook: all the standard Android apps, making it extremely unlikely it's a custom OS.
Meaning it's a cheap CHINESE phone that people are paying a 3x+ markup for.
But it's FREEDUMB!
The guy who released it is a 22 y/o self-proclaimed Bitcoin millionaire who says the app store is "uncensorable", which means it will be rife with malware and apps guaranteed to steal your personal information. The Wild West! YEEHAW! FREEDUMB! And for only $500!
https://uk.pcmag.com/mobile-phones/134539/freedom-phone-meant-for-trump-supporters-is-also-made-by-chinese-vendor
The description in this Slashdot post header by various articles from The Daily Beast and Gizmodo just highlight the scam aspect.
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/21/07/17/011226/right-wing-activists-500-freedom-phone-actually-cheap-rebranded-android-model-made-in-china
The maker claims it has a "special secure operating system" that won't report back your personal info to 'the mothership'. Except the phone runs Parlour, Signal, Facebook: all the standard Android apps, making it extremely unlikely it's a custom OS.
Meaning it's a cheap CHINESE phone that people are paying a 3x+ markup for.
But it's FREEDUMB!
The guy who released it is a 22 y/o self-proclaimed Bitcoin millionaire who says the app store is "uncensorable", which means it will be rife with malware and apps guaranteed to steal your personal information. The Wild West! YEEHAW! FREEDUMB! And for only $500!
https://uk.pcmag.com/mobile-phones/134539/freedom-phone-meant-for-trump-supporters-is-also-made-by-chinese-vendor
The description in this Slashdot post header by various articles from The Daily Beast and Gizmodo just highlight the scam aspect.
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/21/07/17/011226/right-wing-activists-500-freedom-phone-actually-cheap-rebranded-android-model-made-in-china
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Apparently a group of right-wingers are pushing the phone with promo codes and getting $50 for every phone sold with the code, so I guess there's plenty of margin to spread the gift of graft. I can't wait for the first major data leak and the utter bafflement of the people responsible.
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And yeah, the data breach or the situation where the authorities are just waiting for the conspirators to show up is going to provoke a lot of rage.