Comment on Going to a Protest? Don't Bring Your Phone Without Doing This First
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Don’t bring your phone period. Any and all devices can be broken into by law enforcement. Buy a burner with cash if you need some kind of communication.
Yep, ding ding ding, buy a burner phone, with cash, from a store that doesn’t have many or very good cameras.
Bring your real main phone is you thinkinging you know more about cybersecurity and surveillance than Palantir.
99.99999999% chance you don’t.
Yes a burner that you don’t activate. Keep it in a faraday bag. In an emergency you can take it out and call 911.
And bring a separate video camera
No, , this isn’t the 90s. You want a many copies as possible immediately, later might not happen.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 hours ago
Its not the device cracking that’s the problem; its the “your device was identified at the protest we have labeled a riot and has been tracked to your home, which we will now raid in the middle of the night”.
Scotty_Trees@lemmy.world [bot] 7 hours ago
Has this regime already done this or are you just saying what the next steps might be if nothing changes?
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 hours ago
For the “already done this”:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
For the modern technology making it significantly easier:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMSI-catcher
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_phone_tracker
TL:DR, if you’re at a protest and your signal drops to 3G, your device is being monitored and tracked. Whether or not anyone acts on that data is a whole other thing.