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@RachelThornSub FLX1s+ from @furilabs has Android app compatibility solution set up out of the box.

#Flx1s #waydroid #FuriOS #Droidian

Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (33/2026): NFC in Plasma

https://linmob.net/weekly-update-33-2026/

#Plasma #KDE #PlasmaMobile #NFC #LinuxMobile #Phosh #GNOME #Dawndrums #DawndrumsDivineD #UbuntuTouch #SailfishOS #postmarketOS #Mobian #Droidian #PINE64 #PinePhone #Catacombing #Sxmo

The Double-Edged Sword of Digital Freedom: The Risks of Infinito.Nexus with Native Tor Support

⚠️ Disclaimer

This article was generated entirely by artificial intelligence without editorial review.

To publish this analysis quickly, I deliberately chose to release it without manual editing or fact-checking. The purpose of this article is not to provide a polished technical specification, but to stimulate discussion about the societal, ethical, and security implications of the next generation of Infinito.Nexus with native Tor support.

Some technical assumptions, predictions, or conclusions may therefore be incomplete, inaccurate, or open to debate. They should be understood as informed analysis rather than verified fact.

The scenarios described in this article are intended to illustrate both the opportunities and the risks of increasingly accessible privacy-preserving infrastructure. They do not advocate, encourage, or endorse illegal activity. The same technologies that can strengthen digital sovereignty, protect journalists, human rights organizations, researchers, and political opposition operating under censorship can also be misused by malicious actors.

The goal of this article is to encourage an open discussion about the consequences of making powerful decentralized infrastructure available to a much broader audience. As with encryption, Linux, Git, peer-to-peer networks, and the Internet itself, technological progress creates both new freedoms and new responsibilities.

Please read this article critically, verify important claims independently, and view it as a starting point for discussion rather than a definitive statement on the future of decentralized infrastructure.

Technology is neutral.

Whether it empowers democratic resistance or enables organized crime depends on the people using it.

With native Tor integration, Infinito.Nexus has the potential to fundamentally change how self-hosted infrastructure is deployed. It could become possible for anyone to create a completely private digital ecosystem with only minimal technical knowledge.

That prospect is both exciting — and concerning.

A World Beyond Traditional Surveillance

Today’s Internet relies heavily on centralized infrastructure.

Governments can subpoena cloud providers.

Internet Service Providers can monitor traffic.

Hosting companies know where servers are located.

DNS providers can suspend domains.

Payment providers can freeze accounts.

Social media platforms can remove communities.

Tor changes that equation.

By integrating Tor directly into the infrastructure layer instead of treating it as an optional add-on, organizations could operate entirely within Onion Services.

No public IP addresses.

No public DNS.

No visible server locations.

No conventional attack surface.

Infrastructure that was previously easy to discover suddenly becomes practically invisible to anyone outside the Tor network.

From Old Smartphones to Invisible Infrastructure

Perhaps the most disruptive consequence of native Tor support is that almost anyone could become an anonymous infrastructure operator.

Instead of renting a VPS or purchasing expensive server hardware, users could simply take an old smartphone, install a Linux distribution such as Droidian, deploy Infinito.Nexus, and immediately have a functional server reachable exclusively through Tor.

Modern smartphones already contain everything traditionally required for a small server:

• multicore ARM processors
• flash storage
• Wi-Fi and LTE connectivity
• extremely low power consumption
• integrated batteries acting as an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)

Unlike conventional servers, smartphones can continue operating during short power outages without requiring any additional hardware.

Because all communication occurs through Onion Services, the physical location of the device becomes significantly harder to determine than traditionally hosted infrastructure.

A server could operate from:

• an apartment
• an office
• a vehicle
• a backpack
• a cabin
• virtually anywhere with Internet access

Instead of racks in a datacenter, entire organizations could operate from inexpensive commodity hardware.

Infrastructure that once required thousands of dollars could eventually fit inside a jacket pocket.

Organization Beyond Censorship

Perhaps the most transformative consequence of native Tor support is not anonymity itself — it is organization.

Modern democratic movements require far more than encrypted messaging. They need complete digital infrastructure.

Imagine a group deploying the following services exclusively as Onion Services:

• Matrix for encrypted communication
• Nextcloud for document sharing
• OpenProject for task management
• Git for software development
• Wiki systems for documentation
• forums for public discussion
• video conferencing
• identity management with single sign-on

Every service is accessible only through Tor.

There are no public IP addresses.

There are no publicly reachable domains.

There is no central cloud provider that can simply terminate the infrastructure.

For political opposition movements operating under authoritarian governments, this could fundamentally change what is possible.

In countries such as Russia or Iran, governments have repeatedly attempted to restrict independent media, block communication platforms, and pressure hosting providers into taking services offline. A decentralized infrastructure based on Tor Onion Services makes these traditional forms of censorship considerably more difficult.

If one server disappears, another can be brought online using the same deployment automation and cryptographic identities.

Instead of relying on a single datacenter, an organization could distribute its infrastructure across many independently operated devices, including repurposed smartphones running Linux distributions such as Droidian. Every device becomes part of the organization’s digital backbone while remaining reachable only through the Tor network.

This significantly lowers the barrier to building resilient communication networks for journalists, NGOs, researchers, humanitarian organizations, and democratic opposition movements.

Building Invisible Organizations

Imagine an organization deploying:

• Identity Management
• Matrix
• Nextcloud
• Git
• Email
• Video Conferencing
• Project Management
• Forums
• Social Networks
• AI Infrastructure

Every service exists exclusively as an Onion Service.

Employees connect only through Tor.

No public domains.

No public IP addresses.

No externally visible services.

From the perspective of the public Internet, the organization barely exists.

A Powerful Tool for Democracy

For many people around the world, this would be an extraordinary step toward digital sovereignty.

Political opposition operating under authoritarian governments often faces:

• Internet censorship
• mass surveillance
• infrastructure seizures
• domain confiscation
• ISP monitoring
• targeted cyber attacks

A hidden smartphone consuming only a few watts of electricity could host secure communications for an activist movement.

Journalists could publish anonymously.

NGOs could coordinate without relying on commercial cloud providers.

Entire communities could communicate through infrastructure that is extremely difficult to discover or disable.

History repeatedly demonstrates that secure communication is one of the foundations of democratic resistance.

The Other Side of the Coin

Unfortunately, technology does not distinguish between good and bad actors.

The exact same infrastructure could also be deployed by:

• organized cybercrime
• ransomware groups
• illegal marketplaces
• extremist organizations
• terrorist networks
• large-scale fraud operations
• illegal trafficking

If deploying anonymous infrastructure becomes as simple as flashing Linux onto an old smartphone and clicking through an installation wizard, the barrier to entry changes dramatically.

What once required experienced Linux administrators could eventually become accessible to almost anyone.

A hidden smartphone server could host:

• a secure school collaboration platform

or

• an anonymous criminal marketplace.

Technically, there may be little difference.

The software cannot distinguish between them.

Risks for Democratic Societies

For democratic societies such as Germany, this presents a difficult challenge.

Security agencies often rely on information obtained from hosting providers, cloud operators, domain registries, DNS providers, or centralized communication platforms during investigations.

Infrastructure that exists exclusively as Tor Onion Services reduces the availability of these traditional investigative paths.

This can make investigations more difficult and more resource-intensive, especially when organizations are technically competent and operate their own infrastructure.

A terrorist cell, extremist group, or organized criminal network could theoretically operate:

• private Matrix servers
• encrypted file storage
• internal forums
• planning boards
• identity systems
• software repositories
• anonymous web services

all without relying on public-facing infrastructure.

That does not mean such groups become impossible to detect.

Tor does not make people invisible.

Law enforcement can still use endpoint forensics, undercover operations, financial investigations, human intelligence, surveillance of physical logistics, and mistakes made by suspects.

But the balance changes.

The stronger privacy technologies become, the harder traditional bulk surveillance and provider-based investigations become.

This is exactly why the same tools that protect dissidents in authoritarian states can also create serious challenges for law enforcement in democratic states.

The Democratization of Anonymous Infrastructure

Historically, operating Onion Services required substantial expertise.

Administrators needed to understand:

• Linux
• networking
• reverse proxies
• DNS
• Tor
• certificates
• firewalls
• application integration

Automation changes everything.

Eventually, the entire deployment process could become:

1. Install Droidian on an old smartphone.
2. Install Infinito.Nexus.
3. Select the desired applications.
4. Enable Tor support.
5. Click Deploy.

Minutes later, an entire private infrastructure could be online.

No cloud provider.

No VPS.

No static IP.

No public DNS.

Infrastructure that previously required experienced system administrators becomes accessible to ordinary users.

That democratization is both empowering and dangerous.

Open Source Has Always Faced This Dilemma

This is not a new ethical problem.

Encryption protects:

• journalists
• dissidents
• criminals

VPNs protect:

• activists
• ransomware operators

Git is used to build:

• medical software
• malware

Linux powers:

• hospitals
• botnets

Artificial Intelligence can:

• accelerate scientific discovery
• generate phishing campaigns

Technology itself has no morality.

People do.

Infinito.Nexus Is Infrastructure

Infinito.Nexus is not being developed to create hidden criminal networks.

Its purpose is to simplify the deployment of sovereign, self-hosted infrastructure.

Native Tor support simply extends that philosophy.

The software itself does not decide who uses it.

The responsibility remains with those who deploy it.

The Ethical Challenge

Should powerful privacy technologies be withheld because they could be abused?

Or should society accept that technologies capable of protecting freedom will inevitably also be exploited by malicious actors?

There is no perfect answer.

Throughout history, almost every revolutionary communication technology — from the printing press to encrypted messaging — has been used for both constructive and destructive purposes.

Tor is no different.

Neither is Infinito.Nexus.

Technical Design

Native Tor support is currently being designed as a core networking feature of Infinito.Nexus.

Instead of treating Tor as an optional add-on, every deployed application can automatically receive its own Onion Service while remaining fully integrated into the deployment framework.

The current design proposal is publicly available:

Native Tor Support Requirements
https://github.com/kevinveenbirkenbach/infinito-nexus-core/blob/feature/svc-net-tor/docs/requirements/031-svc-net-tor-onion.md

Related projects:

Infinito.Nexus Core
https://github.com/kevinveenbirkenbach/infinito-nexus-core

Hetzner Arch LUKS
https://github.com/kevinveenbirkenbach/hetzner-arch-luks

Linux Image Manager
https://github.com/kevinveenbirkenbach/linux-image-manager

These projects together lay the groundwork for a future where deploying fully encrypted, self-hosted, Tor-native infrastructure becomes almost as simple as installing a mobile app.

Conclusion

Native Tor support has the potential to fundamentally reshape how self-hosted infrastructure is deployed.

For the first time, individuals, NGOs, journalists, companies, and political opposition movements could build private digital ecosystems with remarkably little technical expertise.

At the same time, the same technology could lower the barrier for anonymous criminal infrastructure.

A discarded smartphone running Linux could become a resilient, battery-backed server hidden almost anywhere.

That reality is both inspiring and unsettling.

Like encryption, Linux, Git, VPNs, and the Internet itself, Infinito.Nexus is infrastructure.

Infrastructure does not decide how it is used.

People do.

The challenge for society is therefore not whether such technology should exist, but how we choose to live in a world where powerful privacy tools become accessible to everyone.

I've bounced from PostmarketOS to Droidian, then back to Ubuntu Touch. Even though UT is arguably less 'pure' (due to its reliance on libhybris and Android HALs) compared to pmOS’s mainline-first stance, the keyboard's terminal integration is just superior. At the end of the day, I’ll take a stable, usable shell over a 'pure' system with a subpar input experience.
#UbuntuTouch
#droidian
#postmarketOS
#linux
#terminal
#GooglePixel3a

Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (23/2026): Vulkanic Mastodons

https://linmob.net/weekly-update-23-2026/

#Vulkan  #Phosh #SailfishOS #UbuntuTouch #postmarketOS #FuriLabsFLX1s #FuriOS #LinuxTablets #LinuxMobile #Droidian #Mobian

@etbe Hey @furilabs you might (or might not) want to boost : )

#FuriLabs #FLX1s #FuriPhone #FuriOS #Droidian #MobileLinux #LinuxMobile #linux_on_mobile #phosh #Debian #halium #libhybris

A special guest post by one of the Privacy Kids!

Droidian is an awesome system that runs quite smoothly with occasional crashes and occasional discrepancies.

https://theprivacydad.com/droidian-an-awesome-phone-os-for-patient-people-guest-post/

#linuxonmobile #hightide #flare #droidian #linux #privacy #foss

@linuxphoneapps @droidian @schmiddionmobile @Nokse @82mhz

Acabo de volver a Ubuntu Touch y me encanta. Droidian fue excelente, pero su nueva actualización lo dejó inservible: incluso borró la app de configuración. Consejo: deberían integrar zram en el sistema para teléfonos con recursos muy limitados.
Hablando de Ubuntu Touch, al parecer ya arreglaron los errores que tenía —felicidades— aunque lo he probado muy poco.

#UbuntuTouch #Droidian #LinuxMobile #zram #OpenSource #MobileLinux #LinuxPhone #Privacy #FOSS #ARM @droidian @ubuntu @ubports

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💻🔒 Google es conocido por recopilar grandes cantidades de datos personales de sus usuarios, incluyendo información de navegación, ubicación, contactos y más. Esto se hace a través de sus servicios como Google Search, Google Maps, Google Drive y muchos otros. 📊

🤝🌐 ¡Únete a la lucha por la privacidad y la libertad! Apoya a los proyectos de software libre y a las empresas que defienden la privacidad y la libertad en línea. 💪 #PrivaticeLaWeb #Libertad #librephone #lineage #droidian

¡Un espacio para debatir! 💬 Me encantaría ver un foro de discusión o un espacio de comentarios en la página web de Droidian donde los usuarios podamos debatir y compartir nuestras ideas y opiniones sobre la distro 💬. ¿Te gustaría ver estas mejoras en la página web? ¡Comparte tus pensamientos y opiniones! 💬 #Droidian #UnEspacioParaDebatir #ComunidadActiva @droidian @debian @[email protected] @[email protected] @ev

¡Seguimos mejorando! 🚀 Algunas sugerencias para mejorar la página web de Droidian:

Un botón de donación más accesible y llamativo 💸
Una tienda en línea para vender mercancía de Droidian 🛍️ y así crecer aún más rápido 🚀
Un sistema de reporte de nuevas actualizaciones 📝 para que los usuarios podamos estar informados #Droidian #MejorasSugeridas #Comunidad @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]

!Hola a todos! 👋 Me encanta destacar lo que está bien 👍 y quiero compartir mi entusiasmo con la comunidad 🤝. Droidian es una distro excepcional 🤯 y está muy por encima de otras distros 🔝. Les pido por favor que actualicen su página web 📈, algo como lo hace Postmarker OS o otras distros, para que podamos estar al tanto de las nuevas actualizaciones 📰. #Droidian #DistroMejorada #PaginaWeb #ActualizaciónUrgente @droidian @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]

@TWiT @jp_bennett @RobCampbell Thanks for touching on #LinuxMobile in this episode.

> [01:25:24]: getting ridiculous out there, the whole smartphone debacle we have going on. If someone could make a full-functioning Linux smartphone, I think it's getting to the point where I would pay maybe some serious money for it. I'd be willing to pay the premium dollars just make it work, get a phone on there.

Please check out the #FLX1s from @furilabs It's the most user-friendly option for #MobileLinux currently and stuff just works out of the box, including camera, phone calls, flatpaks, Android apps, etc. The specs are decent and the price is $499 atm.

#FuriOS #phosh #Droidian #FOSS #FreedomLadder #Linux #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

@fbinin also check the #Droidian devices list. Droidian relies on proprietary Android drivers to get some things to work, but on the flip side you'll have more things that "just work" without having to set up things or wait for someone to figure out the drivers.

FLX1 which I recommended earlier runs FuriOS which is based on Droidian, but you'll probably find one of the devices listed on the official Droidian list secondhand at a much lower cost:

https://devices.droidian.org/#/devices

Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (09/2026): Sovereign Stacks

https://linmob.net/weekly-update-09-2026/

#Modal #Phosh #SailfishOS #UbuntuTouch #ModalCollective #postmarketOS #Catacomb  #LinuxMobile #LinuxOnMobile #PlasmaMobile #FuriLabs #FuriOS #Droidian #Mobian

Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (07/2026): Foundations and Forward Motion

https://linmob.net/weekly-update-07-2026/

#Phosh #SailfishOS #UbuntuTouch #GNOMEonMobile #Librem5 #FLX1s #Jolla #PinePhone #postmarketOS #Mobian #Droidian #FuriOS #LinuxMobile #LinuxOnMobile

Looking for an alternative to the ROOM stock from Android/Google?
Here are fully #deGoogled OSs for📱phones, 📟 tablets.

#postmarketos 🇳🇱
https://nerdculture.de/@anon_4601/116053748632097887

#e_OS 🇫🇷
https://nerdculture.de/@anon_4601/116053866252727965

#PlasmaMobile 🇩🇪
https://nerdculture.de/@anon_4601/116054449752259582

#SailfishOS 🇫🇮
https://nerdculture.de/@anon_4601/116054567642998630

👑 #GrapheneOS 🇨🇦 Ally of 🇪🇺
https://nerdculture.de/@anon_4601/116054795784236213

#VollaOS 🇩🇪
https://nerdculture.de/@anon_4601/116054685695568320

#Droidian 🐧
https://nerdculture.de/@anon_4601/116054157609735047

#ReplicantOS 🇲🇫
https://nerdculture.de/@anon_4601/116054514863820973

#Mobian 🇪🇺
https://nerdculture.de/@anon_4601/116054200962393909

#UbuntuTouch 🇬🇧
https://nerdculture.de/@anon_4601/116053926068140345

#iodeOS 🇫🇷
https://nerdculture.de/@anon_4601/116054097235290272

🤖 #Android Based:
🎖️Pros: Best app compatibility (Signal, Banking, Maps).
☔️Cons: Still tied to the Android ecosystem structure.

🐧 #Linux Based:
🎖️Pros: True freedom from Google. More secure code base.
☔️Cons: App compatibility is harder: use "Anbox" or "AlienDalvik" layers, or find native Linux apps.

📢 LATEST NEWS
👑 GrapheneOS: Maybe no longer Pixel only forever.

Let's build this knowledge base together. Spot errors? Let me know!

#Droidian 🐧
https://devices.droidian.org/#/devices

Brand Model

📱#Phones
Asus | Zenfone Max Pro M2
F(x)tec | Pro¹, Pro¹ X
Google | Pixel 3a
Lenovo | ThinkPhone
Motorola | G Power
OnePlus | 3, 3T, 6, 6T
Samsungb | S9, S9+, Note 9
Sony | Xperia 1, 5, 5 II
Volla | Phone, Phone X, 22, X23, Quintus
Xiaomi | Poco (F1, M2 Pro, X3), Mi (6X, 9T, Mix 3), Redmi (7, 9C, Note 7/9 Pro)

📟️ #Tabs
Volla | Tablet

droidian.org @droidian
#DeGoogle #DeGoogled #Linux #droidian

@gnumdk @sebsauvage

Je suis un peu dépité de voir qu'aucun #Fairphone n'est supporté par #Droidian …

(et probablement aucune chance que mon « vieux » #FP3 soit supporté un jour — je trouve ça carrément triste que les matériels un peu « anciens » ne puissent pas bénéficier de ce genre de solutions, qui me semblent pourtant philosophiquement cohérentes avec la durabilité, le #permacomputing et la sobriété)

Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (04/2026): Hardware in the Loop

https://linmob.net/weekly-update-04-2026/

#Phosh #SailfishOS #UbuntuTouch #postmarkeOS #FuriOS #hardwaretesting #MechaComet #NexPhone #Librem5 #Mobian #Droidian #LinuxMobile #LinuxOnMobile

@vform Id like to add #droidian to the list, as I have enjoyed it. Runs on my ThinkPhone when others have not.
#droidianproject
https://droidian.org/

Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (02/2026): Plasma on a Comet linmob.net/weekly-updat... #Phosh #Sxmo #SailfishOS #UbuntuTouch #PlasmaMobile #FuriLabsFLX1s #postmarketOS #Mobian #Droidian #PureOS #PinePhone #Librem5 #LinuxMobile #LinuxOnMobile

Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux U...

Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (02/2026): Plasma on a Comet

https://linmob.net/weekly-update-02-2026/

#Phosh #Sxmo #SailfishOS #UbuntuTouch #PlasmaMobile #FuriLabsFLX1s #postmarketOS #Mobian #Droidian #PureOS #PinePhone #Librem5 #LinuxMobile #LinuxOnMobile

Open poll, please just reply (and mention your OS): What is your favorite #LinuxMobile app?

#SailfishOS #UbuntuTouch #postmarketOS #Mobian #Droidian #danctnix #PlasmaMobile #GNOMEonMobile #Phosh #LinuxonMobile #MobileLinux

@organicmaps Thanks for maintaining a #flatpak Linux version - especially useful on #LinuxMobile.

#MobileLinux #postmarketOS #Mobian #PureOS #Librem5 #FLX1 #FLX1s #Droidian #Pinephone

Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (01/2026): Happy New Year!

https://linmob.net/weekly-update-01-2026/

#LinuxMobile #LinuxOnMobile #phosh #postmarketOS #FuriLabs #PinePhone #PlasmaMobile #GNOMEMaps #Kaidan #XMPP #NemoMobile #unifiedpush #Mobian #Droidian #pocketblue

چون یه نفر ازم پرسیده بود سرعت اجرای #گنو رو گوشی چه‌طوره؟

#linuxonmobile #Droidian