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All on Thu Mar 21 13:53:48 2019
XPost: alt.privacy, comp.security.misc, comp.mobile.android
Right now Lineage OS is still the best privacy oriented rom, especially considering their access control "privacy-guard" feature. I recommend
the microG fork so you don't have to install Google Play services.
Even so, there always seems to be data leakage out of the phone, some
even to Google since they use Google services for WiFi connectivity
checks, NTP, etc... To really be private even with a custom rom you need
root and to use an actual ip tables firewall such as AFWall, that will
stop 99% of the leakage.
It should be noted though that even running a custom rom stripped of
Google there is still somehow someway Google requests that get made. I
have found my phone trying to phone home a Google server through TCP dump/Firewall logs even using bone stock Lineage OS with the firewall
set to deny everything out even ticked the option of blocking the
kernel. There must be some Google code buried DEEP in the OS operating
at a really low level.
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