Bilbo Baggins

Remember that woman who was arrested because her phone indicated she was at a house that was burgled at exactly that time? Police just do a dragnet. Turns out she just drove by the house as it was happening.

In the above example, imagine someone did an anti Israel terror attack in the area. Everyone mentioning such things will be found via dragnet searches and who knows if you just happen to have been nearby when it happened while also making suspicios SMS messages.

Dragnets are profoundly likely to catch innocent people. Protect yourself from them however you can. That should be in everyone’s threat model.

I personally find it easier to use a separate browser for anything I don’t need to be logged in for. It deletes all cookies when closed. No need to trust the untrustworthy.

Snowden showed us ages ago that all phone conversations are recorded. This is fact.

Do phones record what we say outside of phone calls? If you have voice control enabled, yes.

Do phones listen even if that isn’t enabled? Probably sometimes, but I don’t know that for sure.

If a specific guy was following you everywhere, that wouldn’t bother you? Having a stalker wouldn’t be a big deal?

I see no reason why it’s less disturbing if it’s done by my own phone.

It’s going to be retired though, unless something changes. All io domains will disappear.

It’s generally safer to stick to 3 or more letter domains since those aren’t tied to countries.