I’ve been thinking about this for a bit but I couldn’t come up with anything.
The idea is that you have a VOIP number and some self-hosted VOIP infrastructure connected to a landline phone. WhatsApp, Signal and voice traffic from other apps would be redirected to this landline phone instead of your mobile phone.
Is there a way to do this? How do I get started?
Reasoning: I can now keep my phone isolated, wrapped in a thick towel and inside a solid box to prevent it from eavesdropping on me inside my own house.
Please do not respond with messages like “you’re too paranoid”, it doesn’t help.
Thanks
As somebody else mentioned, using a computer and just taking calls there would work and give you solid control over microphone activation etc. If you really want the landline experience, look into adding a USB handset to that setup. It’ll just act like a mic and headphone from your computer but in the classic phone form factor
Yeah, Snowden himself says he desolders microphone and camera on his devices. I’m sure a pc with no mic and cam would do just fine. Or go the desolder route. You can use Signal on a burner phone for the initial setup and then take the battery out so now you just have Signal on your presumably private linux pc with nothing on there.