this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2026
1190 points (99.4% liked)

Technology

87598 readers
4071 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] jobbies@lemmy.zip -1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Good luck, dumb phone means no encryption, SMS and MMS are stored plaintext and freely shared with US three letters and phone convos have been spied on en masse since the 80s.

That wouldn't be an issue, if say, the dumb phone existed for emergencies only.

you'd have to give up phones

I did mention that as a possibility

Realistically you'd need to fall back on the postal service, but people can steam open letters

Well there's always carrier pigeons and jungle drums.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Even jungle drums, you'd need your own drum-language. If the rest of the tribe knows it..

You could book cypher all of your comms, I guess.

[–] jobbies@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

I think you've overestimated how much I want to communicate with other people 😅