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went to my first protest today :33 (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 7 months ago by riwo@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[-] tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Why shouldn't you bring your phone?

Edit for y'all who thought I don't know what cell triangulation and gps tracking are: If you're involved in protesting to the extent that you might be actively tracked, you should have the proper precautions in place on your phone that make it untraceable even when you're carrying it with you.

Edit 2: "Proper precautions" includes using GrapheneOS with 2 SIMs. Only use one of those SIMs at protests and make sure to never use them at the same time. If the government is tracking you past that point, why do you even have a phone in the first place?

[-] po-lina-ergi@kbin.social 3 points 7 months ago

To respond to your edit: no, you just shouldn't bring your phone

You can't harden your phone against every hypothetical because you can't think of every hypothetical and it's dumb to think you can. Why would you think you alone can outsmart teams of very well-paid people who literally sit around all day thinking about ways to track you using your phone?

Your phone literally can't even have signal without your carrier knowing where you are, so why bother bringing it?

[-] AVincentInSpace@kbin.social 1 points 7 months ago

Are you seriously here to tell me there are no uses for a cell phone without signal or Internet access, when the most common use for cell phones at protests is taking video?