"Yasamin Mostofi asks us to imagine this scenario: police have video footage of a robbery. They suspect that one of the robbers is hiding in a house nearby.
Can a pair of off-the-shelf Wi-Fi transceivers, located outside the house, look through the walls to see who’s inside?
That’s easy to answer, since we’ve seen it done before."
This is pretty terrifying IMO, and just another reason why we, as a collective, should move away from cell telephony. It really does have more issues than it’s worth.
In my opinion, while the gold standard is no cell telephony, these make good alternatives:
The Librem 5 - too expensive, but it’s gold standard if you must have a phone.
The Pinephone - All the benefits of the Librem 5 minus HW switches. Far cheaper.
A dumbphone - Not for everyone. Could be worth it if paired with a PDA. Theoretically better than the L5 or pinephone but that’s debatable.
A phone with mainline support - Rare and hard to find, but can be comparable to the pinephone minus the open HW specs.
A phone that’s well supported but no mainline - Good for now, but wont last.
Any other phone - The status quo.