@ty.prompts.ai: Most privacy lists are about advertisers. These 5 are about the state, and they come from the organisations that actually litigate this stuff. Rayhunter is EFF's, and it detects IMSI catchers, the fake towers also called cell site simulators or stingrays that get your phone to talk to them instead of a real tower. It was built for a cheap Orbic mobile hotspot and the project specifically tries to keep false positives down. MVT is the big one at 13k stars: Amnesty International's Security Lab released it during the Pegasus Project in 2021 to pull forensic traces off iPhones and Android, and it is still maintained. Read their own warning first, because they say plainly it is for investigators, not for self diagnosis. Molly is a hardened Signal fork that puts back the passphrase on the local message database that Signal removed, adds a secure RAM wiper and automatic lock, and tunnels through Tor. That is the one that matters if your phone ever leaves your hands. Orbot is the Guardian Project's Tor front end for Android, built for journalists and activists, and it can push any app's traffic through Tor. And TrackerControl analyses app tracking locally on the device, no root and no VPN server, using a blocklist built from analysing around 2 million apps. Save this one. Repos: 1. Rayhunter - github.com/EFForg/rayhunter 2. MVT - github.com/mvt-project/mvt 3. Molly - github.com/mollyim/mollyim-android 4. Orbot - github.com/guardianproject/orbot-android 5. TrackerControl - github.com/TrackerControl/tracker-control-android Book a 1:1 or an app build: tyblackard.com (link in bio) #opensource #privacy #security #github #eff

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