Comment on An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house"

• MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The reason it being turned off matters is because LE has a significantly more difficult time extracting data from that state. And again, a proper faraday bag prevents signal leak.

  You guys are welcome to do what you want, I’m just explaining the best way to stay safe if you don’t want to leave your phone at home. There are plenty of legitimate reasons someone may want one as a lifeline just in case.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    My concern would be that the police would confiscate my phone. Not that they would necessarily be anything on it, but I don’t want them to have my nice expensive phone. They can have this crappy cheap one instead.

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    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Load the foam with Iranian counter interceptor malware and infect the oppressor from inside. Give them spiked ammo.

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      • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        sounds good, where can we obtain it?

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    • tamman2000@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Do you have a recommendation for a good cheap android phone that one could get to have a “clean” phone?

      I’ve been thinking about getting a phone that has none of my socials on it for when I go to Canada to get vaccines

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      • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        A pixel 6a is a good idea as the other commenter said but depending on what you’re after you could get a fairly cheap second hand Samsung for about the same price.

        That has the advantage of legitimately looking like it might actually be your phone that you’ve had for some time. In the same manner you could also get an old iPhone. It’ll have a cracked screen because every iPhone older than 6 months has a cracked screen but the whole point is to be an unattractive decoy, you want the most average boring looking phone possible so there’s nothing for them to be suspicious about.

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      • frezik@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Pixel 6 is the minimum that can load up GrapheneOS. Those are like $130 on eBay.

        Pixel 8/9 does have some CPU features that help separate memory, which can be useful for keeping apps from creeping on memory they shouldn’t.

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