if we changed the architecture of phones we wouldn't need centralized phone companies. If we changed the architecture of social media, we'd could all have our own individual sites. That model doesn't let the telecom sell 'your data'.
the model of the phone is broken.
I should be able to 'get a call' on any phone in the area. In other words if I travel I let my 'people' know where I am and they will know it's me and where I am and they will 'connect' the call in a secure way.
the model of 'one phone' and the 'device' being the 'person' is very broken. We need to start treating them like walkie talkies.
but they say 'how will the good people track the creeps'? There will still be ways. There just won't be a central money whore data-mongering disreputible paymaster central office of low level fat-cat cucks, worthless so they get the mid level manager job and demand a cut of all the patents made in the company, and act all high born, making sure that they have access to the expense account. They are often called 'marketting managers' . They usually try to drive engineers into process of sleep deprived fury (most California software is crap like that. The stuff made in Maynard and else is much much better than anything out of the drug-fields of california office slave shop coder factories.
look for all versions of source, old archives, everythign like that. Hand it to a prosecutor.