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Start Here --> Your Digital Privacy Journey Roadmap
The Privacy Roadmap is designed to help you navigate your personal journey toward digital privacy and security in a world increasingly hostile to both.
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Discernment: Your Digital Safety Depends on it
In our hyper-connected world, the person who pauses to think before they act has already won half the battle against digital predators.
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"Privacy" Is NOT in the Constitution
...no politician, no piece of legislation, no executive order, no judge, jury or even police force is going to protect your privacy.
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When "Smart" Became Stupid: The Rising Revolt Against Unnecessary Technology
Remember when your refrigerator was just a refrigerator that could last decades without issues?
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The Ghost Phone: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
A consistently updated repository of all the most Basic Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for the Ghost Phone + Tablet.
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Artificial Intelligence Evolution: A Reality Check That Will Save Our Future
Artificial Intelligence, at its core, is software that can perform tasks that typically require human intelligence. That's it. No killer robots. No sentient machines plotting world domination. At least not yet.
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The Ghost Phone: A Step-by-Step Guide to a Successful Start
A step-by-step guide that will walk you through the process of successfully getting started on your new Ghost Phone.
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The Ghost Phone: Migrating Contacts, Phone Logs, Texts, Pictures, Files and SIM cards
Unless you plan to start completely fresh on your new device, you'll need to spend some time migrating your contacts, phone logs, texts and files.
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The Ghost Phone: A Complete List of Applications Installed
The most current list of apps installed on The Ghost Phone.
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The Ghost Phone: A Guide to What Apps Work or Don't Work and Why
Customers frequently ask us if certain applications will work on the Ghost Phone. The short answer is, "YES!"
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Ghost Laptop: Migration & General Navigation Guide
This guide walks you through setting up your Ghost Laptop and using Zorin OS, an intuitive, stable, and high-performance Linux operating system designed to work seamlessly on almost any computer.
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Safe Email Alternatives and How to Setup or Migrate Successfully
Learn what exactly email is, a few vetted email alternatives worth considering, and how to safely migrate your current email to a new provider.
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Ghost Laptop: ZorinOS & Linux Troubleshooting
A complete updated list of the most common trouble shooting questions related to the Ghost Laptop
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Starting Your Digital Privacy Journey in 3 Simple Steps
A simple step-by-step guide that will help you start your journey toward a more private and secure digital life.
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The Ghost Phone: Solving Common Call & Messaging Issues
The #1 problem new ghost phone users face is that their phone number is still tied to their old devices and services
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Digital ID: The Trojan Horse
The most effective lies are wrapped in truth. The most dangerous policies are sold with genuine tears.
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Comparing Ghost Phones: Which One is Best for You?
Can't decide which device is the right fit for you? Here's a quick guide that might help...
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FOSS Apps: What Are They and Are They Safe?
Here we'll dive into what exactly Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) apps are, discuss how to find them, how to evaluate if they're actually secure, and how to install them safely on your Ghost Phone running GrapheneOS.
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Healthy Alternatives to BigTech Devices, Software and Platforms
A consolidated list of the ever growing and evolving BigTech alternatives that we have vetted and do support.
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The Fight for Digital Sovereignty: Why Independence Requires Investment
This fight for digital sovereignty requires capital, and traditional funding sources are part of the problem we're trying to solve.
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Rescue Mission: Recovering Deleted Files
Unlike traditional smartphones, recovering deleted files is not so simple due to the privacy and security features found within the GrapheneOS operating system. When a file is deleted, it's permanently removed from the device immediately.
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Is the Signal Messenger App "Safe"?
SignalGate: The Illusion of Privacy in a Surveillance State
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Tracking Apps & Privacy Phones: Addressing the Contradiction
...this brings us to an important crossroads between convenience taking precedence over privacy.
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GrapheneOS vs Google: What the Recent Changes to AOSP Mean for Ghost Phone Users
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The Apple Privacy Illusion: Marketing vs. Reality
If you've watched any Apple marketing over the past decade, you've undoubtedly seen their carefully crafted image as the tech company that actually cares about your privacy. But this entire narrative is built on marketing sleight of hand rather than technical reality.
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A Wake-Up Call
We're living in a time where comfort has become our cage. Most of us know something's wrong. We feel it in our bones. But we keep hitting snooze on reality.
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The Ghost Phone: A Simple Guide to Backup and Restore Your GrapheneOS Device(s)
How to backup and restore your GrapheneOS Ghost Phone or Tablet device.
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Freedom > Slavery
A Manifesto from our Co-Founder Sean Patrick Tario (June 27th '22)
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Digital Privacy Bootcamp Live Training
The Digital Privacy Bootcamp is the core to the live training we offer to groups across the country.
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The Ghost Phone & Tablet: Troubleshooting
An ever growing and updated list of the most common trouble shooting questions for those up and running on the phone.
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The Truth About EMF & 5G
Electromagnetic Frequencies (EMFs) are everywhere and growing in intensity with no end in sight. It's worse than you think... but all is not lost.
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SAR Values and Radiation Levels from Smart Phones
We put together a quick listing of "SAR Values" for some of the most popular phones in the market, as well as our own Ghost Phones, while providing some related information and needed context to keep you informed and armed to speak intelligently on this topic.
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Will My Ghost Phone Be at Risk from Hacks like Pegasus?
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Ghost Phone vs UnPlugged Phone: A Technical Comparison
Here's an objective comparison between our Ghost Phone solution and the UnPlugged Phone, highlighting the distinct technical and business model differences.
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The Best Big Tech Memes
A mountain of anti BigTech memes. #BoycottBigTech
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Updating Your Device(s) is Now a Good Thing: Learn Why and How
Learn why updating our device(s) is now a GOOD thing and no longer something to be feared.
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Helpful Digital Privacy Focused Interviews, Articles and Videos
A complete list of available podcasts, radio shows, articles and videos online that encourage you to ditch BigTech once and for all.
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A Step-by-Step Guide to Installing GrapheneOS
Learn how to install the most private and secure open source mobile operating system on your own phone!
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The Ghost Phone: A Helpful Guide to Understand OEM Support for GrapheneOS
The Pixel 5 and Pixel 4a Ghost Phone devices are no longer receiving "official production support" by GrapheneOS. This post addresses this head on and answer the basic question, "Does this matter? ...and if so why or why not?"
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A Quick Guide to Coreboot
What is Coreboot and is it absolutely essential to have for a private and secure laptop / desktop running Linux?
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Is Going Ghost and Digital Privacy a Myth?
Is "Going Ghost" really even possible while still using smart phones and laptops and living in the surveillance state that we have now?
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Your Smart Phone is a Deadly Weapon
Our smart phones, and the various applications running on them, indeed have been designed to be deadly psychological warfare weapons for mass consumption from the very beginning.
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Do You Actually NEED a Smartphone? Hard Truths About Tech Dependency
Let me ask you a simple question that might make you uncomfortable:
Do you actually need a smartphone?
Not want. Not prefer. Not find convenient. NEED.
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