Turning your phone off, and having the friend turn their phone off, probably helps. Computers are easier to put free/open, trustable OSes on, and easier to put into real sleep, unless it’s one of those newfangled laptops that don’t have a real sleep mode. Even for phones a degoogled Android like say Lineage should help, IF you have one of the (many) devices it’s ported to (and then don’t install proprietary apps on the thing – even if the app itself isn’t sketchy, they could include an SDK that does sketchy stuff; you’re not just trusting the app, you’re trusting its dependencies too).
That’s a bit much just for silly banter though. But probably worth it for serious conversations.
Then again, if you take precautions even for silly banter times, then it’ll be harder to tell whether you’re talking about something that needs to be confidential or not (like how everyone using encryption for mundane stuff makes it safer to use encryption). So yeah I don’t know.
Honestly, might not be.
Turning your phone off, and having the friend turn their phone off, probably helps. Computers are easier to put free/open, trustable OSes on, and easier to put into real sleep, unless it’s one of those newfangled laptops that don’t have a real sleep mode. Even for phones a degoogled Android like say Lineage should help, IF you have one of the (many) devices it’s ported to (and then don’t install proprietary apps on the thing – even if the app itself isn’t sketchy, they could include an SDK that does sketchy stuff; you’re not just trusting the app, you’re trusting its dependencies too).
That’s a bit much just for silly banter though. But probably worth it for serious conversations.
Then again, if you take precautions even for silly banter times, then it’ll be harder to tell whether you’re talking about something that needs to be confidential or not (like how everyone using encryption for mundane stuff makes it safer to use encryption). So yeah I don’t know.
– Frost