Can’t stress enough if you plan to attend a protests, turn your phone off miles from the site & don’t turn it back on until you’re miles away. Go ahead and buy a faraday bag. It’s not crazy.
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No contacts and no apps.
Don’t even have your real cell phone on you.
We have been doing things like that in Venezuela for months, protecting, hiding or leaving phones while outdoors, for the not infrequent case of police, national guard or military seizing it looking / planting evidence of mere disliking government for blackmail purposes.
All of this is just as true under democrats as it is under republicans.
for those like me who can get turned around on my own street or even in my own house (yeah that’s a real disability that exists), it continues to be safer to stay home.
Turning your phone off on the way to a protest can easily be made as evidence that you were planning to commit a crime in a court.
Wear masks and different glasses/shoes/hats/backpack than usual.
Faraday bag is a great idea.
This is us now America.
Step B. Declare ANTIFA a domestic terrorist group.
Step C. All left leaning protests are started by ANTIFA justifying the use of the U.S. military against them.
Just get the faraday bag.
The faraday bag is not overkill.
But sure. Leave your phone at home.
It’s weird to suggest people are too stupid to do that, but are smart enough to resist the impulse to leave a device they habitually never let out of their sight.
I was aiming to offer a simple piece of advice that a lot of people could easily follow, that will lower their profile & prevent a lot of existing tracking.
If you're on camera, but your location data doesn't match with the cam location, you'd be flagged.
If you're going to be in a dense urban area, bring the phone. Blend in with everyone else.
If I have someone on Cam and but there's no location ping, we'd flag them as an outlier and look closer.
I'm no longer in LE, but the equipment we use at my current role can do similar things. We don't use Flock cameras though
vibes as 2020
whem dogshit trump was bully-losing-on-his-way-out. like the coast was not clear bc the old white caps were afraid to lose their gravy; now they are hungrier than ever. that's part of the house fascists build.
https://skyview.social/?url=https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jfvqgypmywhtzna56rsbk4nq/post/3lbletu6n222m&viewtype=unroll
on surveillance of protests around the world
https://restofworld.org/2024/facial-recognition-government-protest-surveillance/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWEpW6KOZDs
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/05/opinion/capitol-attack-cellphone-data.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
Some interesting products like this out there https://slnt.com/ (the irony of a black Friday sale)
And this https://www.reflectacles.com/#home
Umbrellas can be helpful
@eff.org makes great guides:
https://ssd.eff.org/module/attending-protest
#opsec #infosec
https://www.digitaltrends.com/news/cv-dazzle-makeup-facial-recognition-protests/
https://www.vice.com/en/article/researchers-defeated-advanced-facial-recognition-tech-using-makeup/
The can see the location of the advertising ID if they but your data from a data broker. If they can then spot you at a location and match that to your Ad ID they now can track you.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/05/how-disable-ad-id-tracking-ios-and-android-and-why-you-should-do-it-now
If you think this is because of project 2025, you haven’t been paying attention.
I'm proudly Jewish.
Take detailed written notes including dates, times and physical descriptions.
Thinking the clean phone w/location off and no apps on wifi only going through a VPN on a separate cellular/wifi hotspot could work too?
https://youtu.be/kMRtB6yEavU?feature=shared
'The defense has talked to you a little bit about reasonable doubt. You’re going to get an instruction from the Judge. And you can tell it’s clearly written by a bunch of lawyers. It doesn’t mean a whole lot'
DoJ lawyer during the inauguration court cases.
You were there, so you're guilty of throwing things at a cop!! Took MONTHS in court.
https://www.techdirt.com/tag/inauguration/
Trump went from “it’s rigged” to “vote twice” to
“we have a secret” to “we don’t need your votes” to “you won’t need to vote again”. He is a serial liar and cheat.
#recount @marcelias.bsky.social
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoVqbuCihAM
https://youtu.be/RJR5uQpweko?si=1CKDt0PguTbh-4vk
You're welcome.
a credible pattern of life gives more plausible deniability than dropping off the map during the time you'd rather not be detected
but yes everyone should own a f-bag
Instead we are trained to take detailed notes including descriptions, times, and locations.