at the first hint of any organized threat there is zero chance state security won't deploy cellular jamming technology and IMSI-catchers to track devices and prevent any wireless communication over encrypted communication channels they don't monitor and control.

a cell phone is going to useless at best and a liability at worst until the tide has turned, imo.

De-Westernize your technology as much as possible. Consider going with Huawei or Xiaomi or OnePlus for phones (or stuff like laptops, which there's also Lenovo (seek out a model that is made to support Linux)), Aliexpress for shopping, and Huion for art-related hardware. China's always producing better and better shit, and they very well may extend their satellite mobile and (potentially) internet services to the global market. Keep in mind protectionism is escalating in the West, so expect interference and sabotage at some point.

Those who are on Windows and Mac, consider getting something really cheap like a raspberry pi or dual-booting a Linux distro and slowly developing the skillset to leverage it to your everyday needs, then start carrying your workflow over gradually until the other two are obsolete.

Especially keep an eye out for 100% indigenous Chinese technologies like CPUs, RAM, GPUs, etc etc. Shit the West can't backdoor in the production process because they have no control over it.

Those of us who are already here on Hexbear, which is basically reasonably sovereign territory not controlled by the CIA, are already in a much better position than fucking Reddit.

For videos, consider using something like https://www.bilibili.tv/en/ if you can't afford to host or trust any existing PeerTube instance. Odysee is technically an option too (based on the LBRY protocol, decentralized video hosting), but it's currently full (and I mean full) of chud content (and possibly nsfw shit).

For file hosting I highly recommend something like IPFS if you want to guarantee file authenticity and make it impossible for someone else to censor (you control when and for how long you host the file). IPFS has been used to host a copy of Wikipedia in the past (yes, can host static sites) when the Turkish government (I believe it was?) basically yeeted the site in an act of censorship. The latter is just an example, nobody should ever rely on NATOpedia for anything political or historical, at all.

Those of you who feel are lacking in technological warfare literacy, you can follow the news at https://www.eff.org/ to understand the trends the state has used and is using to undermine the proletariat.

The West wants to be able to easily rug pull you, so make it a big ass fucking chore for them to do so.

yes

I'll probably be getting a Huawei phone for my next replacement.

I wouldn’t worry about apple in that situation.

The company theoretically has limited capacity to nuke icloud and appleid accounts but I don’t know of any examples of them doing that for any reason other than abuse (hijacking someone elses account and using icloud as mass storage).

They haven’t given up encryption to the authorities in the past and it might not even be possible for them to anymore (that’s the standard legal defense for a company that doesn’t wanna deal with it, a judge orders your company to comply with a wiretap or all writs and you say “okay. I literally do not have the ability to do what they’re asking or me”).

I’d worry about using a phone, computer or tablet connected through any wireless networking at all.

Another poster mentioned the stingray, and that’s one way that any cellular data connection could be rendered unsafe no matter the device on the other end. No one brought up the tremendous expansion of wifi hardware sold as “pineapples” that are explicitly intended to allow access to the data from our supposedly secure connections to wireless networks.

And that’s just the stuff someone could do by pulling up next to you or walking around with a device in a briefcase. Consider the operators of the networks we connect to themselves! Plenty of public WiFi use is being surreptitiously filtered, monitored and catalogued. The libraries in my county have a system that does all three, for example. And the interested parties don’t need to roll a stingray out if the cell network operators give them access to the gateway devices on the towers themselves! I don’t know of a court case where that last part was done, but I know that the modem chips have that capacity documented in detail for a reason!

In the event of a revolution we don’t need to look for the punches to come from the companies that make the phones. It makes much more sense for the opposition to punch from the network itself.

Also historically to the extent it comes from technology and not good old boots on the ground feds in the meetings fundamentals, that’s where infiltration and suppression have come from, not the device itself.

No revolutionary uses iPhone

Unless maybe compelled to do so by work

They don't even need Apple

https://theintercept.com/2020/07/31/protests-surveillance-stingrays-dirtboxes-phone-tracking/