if your travel with burner and normal phone for one hour, both switched on, cell tower registrations are in sync and both are easily linked. if your switch on your burner only occasionally at random locations, but cut real phone is/was there at the same time they are linkable.
to use a burner:
never switch on at home
leave main phone at home
travel a reasonable distance before switching the burner on
don’t travel with people who know you and who carry a phone
sim & phone mustn’t be bought/topped-up in a traceable way
cover cameras at all times (there are 0click exploits available to three letter agencies)
it’s possible, but certainly not trivial.
also: depends on the power of your adversary, as always the personal threat model is relevant. using a burner to cheat on your spouse is not the same as using one when plotting to the nuclear codes.
I mean… like everything this comes in many levels… go on the main road with your car, cameras will catch you. sign in with your public transport card when boarding the bus… these are obvious. use a cab, pay cash. ride a bike, change cities, change states, change countreis… depends on your threat model I guess :D
nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
if your travel with burner and normal phone for one hour, both switched on, cell tower registrations are in sync and both are easily linked. if your switch on your burner only occasionally at random locations, but cut real phone is/was there at the same time they are linkable.
to use a burner:
it’s possible, but certainly not trivial.
also: depends on the power of your adversary, as always the personal threat model is relevant. using a burner to cheat on your spouse is not the same as using one when plotting to the nuclear codes.
Crikeste@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Appreciate you elaborating, but if you wouldn’t mind doing so a little more…. lol
How does one “travel in a not traceable way”?
nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
I mean… like everything this comes in many levels… go on the main road with your car, cameras will catch you. sign in with your public transport card when boarding the bus… these are obvious. use a cab, pay cash. ride a bike, change cities, change states, change countreis… depends on your threat model I guess :D
klu9@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
One thing: Turn off your phone’s WiFi and Bluetooth when travelling.