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States track our phones using the IMEI code. But you can change it. They don't want people to know. This info is kept secret. But today I am making it public in this guide. You will get a hotspot usable with any phone that protects your IMEI from the government for $300. Your phone broadcasts 2 pieces of info: the IMEI which is tied to the phone's hardware and the IMSI which is tied to the SIM card. To change the IMSI, simply use change your SIM card every so often. The Pinephone allows you to change this number. Here's a guide to setup the phone for this. You will need a Pinephone, a micro SD card and an adapter for your computer. Terminology There are 3 storage types: SPI-NOR, eMMC and the SD card. The SPI-NOR stores the bootloader. The eMMC is internal memory for the OS. We will use the SD card to load the bootloader into the SPI-NOR. Setup the Installer Environment We install the OS to the pinephone using a tool called pmbootstrap, but it needs root access. So I instead made a VM with a USB passthrough and installed Manjaro Linux there. You can do this with virt-manager, then add a new VM with the Manjaro VM and install it. Then inside Manjaro, you can install spice guest tools for more seemless integration (optional). For the USB passthrough, I had to edit /etc/libvirt/qemu/manjaro.xml, where I added this code: