Comment on Going to a Protest? Don't Bring Your Phone Without Doing This First
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 hours agoIts 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] 5 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 4 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.