Quoth Nathan of Guardian:
> I've talked about this before, but the use of a "MiFi" portable
> network device providing wifi to a tablet/phablet running VoIP
> software on a clean ROM, provides the best of all worlds - telephony,
> portability and security.
>
> I lived life this way for awhile in New York, using combining the Mifi
> with known open hotspots in my general daily commute. It worked very
> well. I know many others, including some on the Guardian Project team,
> do this as well, as daily practice.
Sorry for coming late to the party. This is an interesting idea,
that I hadn't thought of before. I also like that it can allow one
to stop disclosing location data in a way that's impossible with
GSM, by turning off the separate portable GSM router ("MiFi"). Well,
you can turn off GSM on many phones, but obviously there's plenty
more trust that the baseband can't be hacked, and that the phone is
behaving well, compared to the GSM router.
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