Opsec for Androids (please geek me out)

so decided to upgrade to an android today, i've previously only used the most basic tracfone for a burner, nothing with data or location or anything like that.

So what I would like to know is what is: 1. What is essential opsec for using a burner that is also a smart phone? (do's and dont's) 2. Essential and best apps to use and why 3. Advice on any form of encryption or any other helpful opsec for using android burner.

ps. went with Virgin Mobile (intake on that would be appreciated too) thank you


Comments


[4 Points] None:

Here's a don't: don't use a phone if you want opsec better than what a 5 year old could do.


[1 Points] None:

There are a couple apps I've found that you can use instead of just texting, the most useful of which is Surespot.

This app is not only encrypted, but messages can be deleted from both ends, so if you text someone something you don't want seen again, you can delete it from their phone and yours.

Great open source app, I highly recommend it.

Whatever you do, don't text anything ever. Texts are like a permanent record that will follow you to the ends of the earth. Just don't do it.


[1 Points] diOpAnonMu:

Use Signal, use as few apps as possible otherwise.

There's some general info here: http://www.slideshare.net/grugq/mobile-opsec


[1 Points] supernothingnome:

Orbot + orweb/orfox + AGP


[1 Points] al_eberia:

https://yawnbox.com/index.php/2015/03/14/create-an-anonymous-textsecure-and-redphone-phone-number/


[1 Points] None:

Don't use an android phone for anything other than browsing, don't do anything illegal, that's just plain stupid.


[1 Points] hangbellybroad:

Android is Google, and you know the business they are in, ie gathering all the data they can about you. If opsec is a concern there are better ways to go.


[0 Points] FuckingRedditBlah:

Your TracFone had GPS abilitiy, whether you realized it or not.

Unless your phone is OLD as fuck, like from 1999-2000, it most likely is a Phase 2 phone.

Phase 2 95% of a network operator's in-service phones must be E911 compliant ("location capable") by December 31, 2005. Wireless network operators must provide the latitude and longitude of callers within 300 meters, within six minutes of a request by a PSAP.[5] Accuracy rates must meet FCC standards on average within any given participating PSAP service area by September 11, 2012

You people need to stop listening to each other on OPSEC advice.

99% of you are straight up amateurs. But I always get to LOL when reading the discovery in your cases about how you got caught.

Fucking AMATEURS and rats...all of you.