Comment on Going to a Protest? Don't Bring Your Phone Without Doing This First

ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• anon_8675309@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That and cell towers….

  But a cheap burner. Don’t activate it. Keep it in a faraday pouch. In an emergency remove from faraday pouch and call 911. You can do that on phones you don’t activate.

  But everything else, like you said, document with a digital camera.

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• protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I use my android phons without a google acccount without having a custom rom, it is usable just that most people are too ignorant and clueless

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  • ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I have a Samsung phone and it is mandatory to have a Samsung account to use it.

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    • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You don’t need a samsung account lol. You probably missed the small text that allows you to skip it.

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    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I have a Samsung Galaxy S10 and no Samsung account. I just flashed the rom. I also bought an unlocked phone, but I don’t think that actually matters.

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      • ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Yeah it wasn’t mandatory back in the s10 days years ago. But times have changed. 

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      • Bitswap@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        What ROM are you using?

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• sureshot0@discuss.online ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  GrapheneOS or KaiOS?

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  • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    With the SIM completely turned off, maybe. But it’s still a bad idea.

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    • mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yup. It’s a bit of a question of how paranoid are you/you feel you need to be but it may be worth keeping in mind that the baseband modem of any phone is proprietary and runs its own unaudited software the end user has no control over or insight into.

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      • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        No need to be paranoid, IMEI/IMSI are built into the protocols. Phone networks were never built with anonymity in mind

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    • bufalo1973@piefed.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Without the SIM.

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  • blinfabian@feddit.nl ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    e/OS too? :3

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