Technology

Yesterday, I posted a reply that said, just do not bring any cellphone with you. I do not own one & double check people using electronics around me during activists activities. Lat night, before I went to sleep, the obvious occurred to me, activists need to record evidence of what is going at the activism.

Thus, my updated answer/recommenation (as a veteran, own no cellphone & double checks people using electronics around me activist) go back to the ‘80s’ or maybe, even ‘90s’ recording technology to record evidence of what is going at the activism.

IMO just having your personal device on you in the presence of a protest puts you in danger. They have ample tools to track cellular devices that basically cannot be guarded against without disabling the function altogether, such as with a Faraday bag. They will catch and log that you were at a protest, and use that against you later.

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.

This might be relevant for following ICE around or direct action, but at this point there's almost zero personal risk from attending something like a rally or a march.

My relatives and even friends my age are afraid to go to protests. They read stuff like this, and it acts as demobilization messaging. In my experience, once you get them to go once they're no longer afraid to engage, but there's an initial fear and anticipatory obedience that has to be overcome.

inb4 protests do nothing: getting people to stick their toe in the water helps build commitment that will one day be necessary to gain critical mass for more organized disobedience.

Going to a Protest? Don't Bring Your Phone

FTFY

Just don't bring it. Bring a digital pocket camera instead to document stuff.

Nowadays, you can't use a mobile phone without signing in to some Google service or Apple. It's mandatory. Giving them access to every data you own.

Shitty article. Doesnt even contain the words SIM card or IMEI so it has no business advising people on whats safe to bring to a protest. There is no such thing as cop-proofing a mobile phone unless all wireless modules have been removed. The cops can and do track peoples cell tower signal derived locations and they can log active Wifi/Bluetooth MAC addresses in their vicinity.

As others have said, just dont bring it if you are scared. Consider just using a bodycam or gopro style camera.

Shut off and leave your phone at home, buy a pay-as-you-go to bring with you for emergency contact/coordination

I bring my phone, and my wallet, and my keys, and a $7,000 camera, and my lawyer's phone number in my head.

they can suck my balls

always film cops

If it makes you feel better, go nuts.

But they have Face ID, gait ID, they have the signal from your cellular-equipped car, on and on. Even if your phone is “off” it’s transmitting an ID for antitheft purposes. Your smartwatch is leaking your location, and your smart tags.

Leave the car at home? They can track your public transit card via the credit card you used to fill it.

Stay home and post online? Palantir has Reddit posts from deleted accounts they will dig up to torpedo your future political ambitions as they did with Graham Platner.

We are all on the regime’s naughty list. Might as well make the most of it and demonstrate peacefully. And without a mask so you don’t look like an agent provocateur.

It’s Spartacus time.

1. Get a cheap mobile specifically for protests, especially using it for pictures and video.
2. Set it up to livestream everything, so that any video evidence gained can't be taken away.
3. Get a faraday bag for when you need to put that mobile away and not be tracked.

Maybe I'm missing something though?

Going to a protest? Don’t bring your phone ~~without doing this first~~

I’m skeptical of bringing your phone at all, either in airplane mode or off, because modern phones still broadcast location when it’s ‘dead’ in order for you to find it. But I don’t know enough about that to say for sure

I would like to bring the attention to LoRa.

Meshtastic is a good example of leveraging LoRa.

Cripes all of that and not even, "Buy a burner SIM card", "Use a VPN at all time if you have to use data", "For the love of god don't use biometrics as authorization, use a alphanumeric password to unlock", "Use the damn encryption solution provided by your phone's OS".

Buy a used phone on eBay. Activate with phreeli at a library. Only turn on phone at protests. Turn off when you leave.

You can buy faraday wallets for like $20.

Would an old school walkie talkie be a better solution? You want to be able to communicate within a group in case shit happen

Faraday bag all electronic items; phone, smartwatch; hell, I’d even bag my car keys. Cover your face, especially the eye area. Make your voice heard, but don’t be a data point.

What's the plan for having your phone at home? They're going door to door and shooting innocent white American citizens.