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submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Cool...

This one goes out to all the small government, privacy loving, Republicans out there, supposedly hating invasive big brother tactics and representing the values of the American heartland.

Would be much appreciated if you could have a word with your people about this.

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[-] [email protected] 180 points 1 month ago

This first thing you should do when going protesting, is to leave your phone at home.

[-] [email protected] 88 points 1 month ago

And cover up your face and any visible tattoos or any other identifying features

[-] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks ago

Put a rock in your shoe too. Gait identification can be shockingly accurate.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

Dune sand walking

[-] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago

and cover your face if you are in a shithole country like USA, Turkey, Russia etc

[-] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago

USA ... the world's richest third world country.

[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago

Having a small faraday bag around is useful too, that's what I do.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

I wouldn't trust a foil bag to do anything 100%.

the only 100% way to not be caught is not bring it.

it also provides an alibi. "see, my phone was here all day long."

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

I'm talking about an actual faraday bag, not a foil bag. That, combined with a powered off device keeps you fairly protected. They aren't going to get into your phone if it's powered off.

it also provides an alibi. "see, my phone was here all day long."

There's going to be a deviation in usage regardless, it's not providing an alibi. A gap of time when you're not using your device that you normally would be is a marker they look for. They key is keeping them locked out (again, power them off).

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I mean, a proper Faraday cage will block anything unless the US government has figured out how to break the laws of physics...

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

A proper Faraday cage, a truly excellent one, just the most Faraday of all the cages, is easily defeated by physical attacks such as getting your phone cloned when you get mass arrested and summarily released on OR.

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[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago

If you think you need a phone, it should be a burner.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Radios or mesh devices only

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I bring my phone. I likely won't be breaking any laws, and I can afford a lawyer. So yeah arrest me and waste the system's time. Just another data point they have to sort.

And if it gets to the point where none of that matters we were cooked anyway

[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

Lawyers operate in courts. We don’t have due process anymore.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

Then as I said we're already cooked. But also that is demonstrably false anyway. Our judiciary is under heavy threat, but still functioning

[-] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago

Barely functionning isn't good enough, it has to be beyond reproach but today it has daily miscarriages.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Just go out wearing a MAGA hat. They only have small brains it'll probably confuse them.

Like how insects are always pretending to be wasps so they don't get eaten, see it's scientific.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

Or even just dress how they'd expect their own to dress, don't even need a dumbass hat. I wear an old tan leather jacket and a Swedish combat cap which apparently translates to friend for them. Also applies to the anarchists though, they see my clothes as friendly.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks ago

Police issues a dispersal order, but blocks all routes to safely leave the area.

Congratulations, you will now be charged as having committed a crime and good luck proving in a court that there was no realistic option for you to leave.

Also police seizes your phone. Congratulations now they access your data and either go after people you have had contact with or they claim you to be part of a criminal organization as they pin other charges on people they found a connection with.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago

This is the sort of nuts and bolts of protesting that Americans are learning the hard and fast way.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I doubt they will find anything of use. The most powerful thing I can do is slow them down. It's the best use of my privilege

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