So I just looked at this Freedom Phone and... wow. Is it a scam? It looks like a scam.
It's "uncensorable" and it's 500 bucks and you can pay now but it doesn't exist yet. freedomphone.com
It promises an "uncensorable App Store" which means an app store full of spyware, scamware and malware.
It says it has its own FreedomOS Operating System. But if it did, it wouldn't have apps. So if it exists, it's an Android underneath.
"It Does Everything Your Current Phone Does." but there are no device specs at all because I assume there's no actual phone. They don't know what my current phone can do anyway so they can't make that promise.
"Ships in August". Sure it does.
Best case, this is some 100 buck Chinese phone reskinned with a tweaked Android and a sideloading insecure app store. Worst case it's a 500 buck donation to whoever these guys are, followed by a lot of chargebacks to Shopify who's hosting them.

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
 

Keep Current with Arieh Kovler

Arieh Kovler Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @ariehkovler

15 Jul
Thanks to vaccines, Israel looked like the first country in the world to reach herd immunity from the coronavirus. But then Delta arrived. Daily cases shot up from less than 20 to around 750 in three weeks. Image
Most of the daily cases in Israel are now among vaccinated people. 56% of Israelis are vaccinated, and they make up roughly the same proportion of daily cases (though there are lots of demographic confounders in that data!) Image
On the other hand, only 1% of daily cases are people who previously tested positive for Covid, despite this group constituting 9% of the population. Again there are confounders here, but I think the effect is probably real.
Read 9 tweets
14 Jul
The letter from @OversightDems to Cyber Ninjas asks them to produce details of who's funding the audit, any security issues, their interim findings and the wild conspiracies about bamboo and UV light.
oversight.house.gov/sites/democrat…
Also asks for any communications between Cyber Ninjas and Trump, the Trump campaign, the 'audit' funders, Rudi, Sidney Powell, Lin Wood, Flynn, Byrne or Lindell.
Read 4 tweets
12 Jul
At the Kraken sanctions hearing, the judge asks who spoke to the "expert witnesses" to determine their facts and conclusions. Asks first about Joshua Merritt, (aka 'Spyder')
Howard Kleinhendler says HE spoke to Spyder. He says he can't disclose the real truth about Merritt, because Merritt is a super-sekrit informant to government agencies. Now talking techno-nonsense about the dark web and URLs.
Kleinhendler insists Merritt/Spyder is a hyper-qualified CI and says it's not 'technically false' that Merritt was in the 305th.
Read 10 tweets
9 Jul
Pfizer is now saying that this theory from February is true, and that the very high levels of antibodies that prevent mild infection do decline over 6 months or so to the point that another dose has value.
Lots of scientists seem sceptical about Pfizer's position on this, and the data showing a drop in effectiveness correlated to time in Israel has NOT been published.
Read 4 tweets
7 Jul
Surprisingly, a big focus of this Trump class action is Covid. Trump et al are suing Facebook for adding health warnings to Covid disinformation.
The Complaint hits conservative antivax talking points: Fauci, CDC, scare quotes around vaccine misinformation.
Trump himself sees the Covid vaccines as a personal success. This complaint in his name is all about how antivaxxers are being censored on Facebook. Also, note how the Fauci/Zuck emails are described as "surreptitious" for some reason.
Read 6 tweets
5 Jul
There's an odd history of early 20th Century feminist pioneers becoming leaders in the fascist movement. Violette Morris is one example.
Rotha Lintorn-Orman founded the British Fascists in 1923, which was Britain's first fascist movement. Mosley's British Union of Fascists was formed partly by breakaway elements from her group
Suffragette Mary Richardson famously slashed Diego Velázquez's painting, the Rokeby Venus, to draw attention to women's right to vote. She became organiser for the Women's Section of the British Union of Fascists.
Read 6 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!


This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

:(