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Anti-Tracking Smartphone Pouch
Tinman57:
This isn't an ad, but an article warning about government snoopers.
Anti-tracking smartphone pouch is a sign of the times
Are you the type the tapes over the camera on your MacBook? If so, you might also want to store your iPhone in a radio-free pouch when it's not in use. Big brother is watching.
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http://www.zdnet.com/anti-tracking-smartphone-pouch-is-a-sign-of-the-times-7000019010
40hz:
Wonder if it actually does work as well as claimed? I don't think they've had any independent confirmation of their claims - but I could be wrong.
Of course since the NSA can easily monitor who supported the kickstarter and got one - plus who buys one once they become commercially available (ain't debit and credit cards a grand thing?), it's kinda moot. Besides, any phone that regularly drops off the grid and can't be reached by a backchannel ping - and then pops back for no apparent reason - becomes a dead giveaway that the owner is employing some shielding mechanism.
That should be enough to get you on a list of phone owners targeted for 'heightened' scrutiny...
That's the insidious part what's going on. It's not a technical fix we need. We need to address and deal with the people and power issue here. And get it resolved definitively. Otherwise it becomes a game of "whack-a-mole" as somebody characterized it. It'll never end if we only try to deal with the technology and not the attitudes and motivations behind this government's blanket and effectively unsupervised surveillance agenda.
Tinman57:
Then again, it's much cheaper just to pull the battery out of your phone when not in use, and they can't make that against the law. If the battery isn't removeable, wrap that sucker in tin foil! :P
Stoic Joker:
Besides, any phone that regularly drops off the grid and can't be reached by a backchannel ping - and then pops back for no apparent reason - becomes a dead giveaway that the owner is employing some shielding mechanism.
-40hz (August 07, 2013, 03:26 PM)
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Bingo! (As usual...) Then they look at where the phone appeared and based on where it disappeared, and the time it was off ... calculate the most likely point what was hidden. Doesn't take too many tries to narrow it down either I'd wager.
Renegade:
Besides, any phone that regularly drops off the grid and can't be reached by a backchannel ping - and then pops back for no apparent reason - becomes a dead giveaway that the owner is employing some shielding mechanism.
-40hz (August 07, 2013, 03:26 PM)
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Bingo! (As usual...) Then they look at where the phone appeared and based on where it disappeared, and the time it was off ... calculate the most likely point what was hidden. Doesn't take too many tries to narrow it down either I'd wager.
-Stoic Joker (August 07, 2013, 05:20 PM)
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As long as you're not silly enough to constantly go back to where you buried the bodies, it should be ok. :P
Kinda makes you wonder whether it's worth having the hassle of a phone at all anymore.
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