How Do I Prepare My Phone for a Protest?
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Do not use Smartphones.
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If they get you you want nothing outside oft your memory that has any link to others. Depending in the effect of carrying your passport with you in your country decide wether to take it along.Smartphones are far too valuable to our efforts to be left at home. They are the difference between personally observing law enforcement atrocities, and being able to prove them. The media isn't covering the protests. We need as much video as we can get. We need to be able to coordinate efforts, passing along troop deployments and numbers.
While our main phones and accounts are probably linked to more information than law enforcement should ever be allowed to touch, burners add too much to our efforts to seriously consider not bringing them.
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Before going to a protest, demonstrators or observers should note that their cellphones may subject them to surveillance tactics by law enforcement. If your cellphone is on and unsecured, your location can be tracked and your unencrypted communications, such as SMS, may be intercepted. Additionally, police may retrieve your messages and the content of your phone if they take custody of your phone, or later by warrant or subpoena.
How Do I Prepare My Phone for a Protest? (Updated 2024) – The Markup
Simple steps to take before hitting the streets
(themarkup.org)
Leave it at home for a protest if you care about being tracked.
Pretty much all cell phones can be tracked even when turned off.
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Leave it on at home.
"Your honor, as you can see from my mobile device location history, I never even left my house that day."
Not that that'll actually work or that they'll care, but still...
They likely have the data to show it didn't move at all. Eg it wasn't on your person.
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They likely have the data to show it didn't move at all. Eg it wasn't on your person.
Put a harness on your pet and put it on the harness. Boom, instant spoofing.
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Regardless of the law, you can be detained by law enforcement if you cannot prove who you say you are until you can prove it.
They’re detaining people with Real IDs for hours at a time. It likely makes no difference.
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Leave it at home.
Or get a burner
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Leave it at home for a protest if you care about being tracked.
Pretty much all cell phones can be tracked even when turned off.
Even with a libre OS and all radios turned off? (So to use the phone as a camera and offline navigation)
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Put a harness on your pet and put it on the harness. Boom, instant spoofing.
Movement data shows that you scratch your fleas a lot, you should do something about that.
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Why do you need an ID? Leave it in your car if you're driving.
I don't think there's a single state that requires you to actually carry documentation.
These are the states that require you to at least verbally state your name, and only if the officer has reasonable suspicion that you have or will commit a crime.
They can ask your name. You may not have to answer.
Research your state's law on this before you go. It's in the link.
"No ID found, this must be an illegal"
-ICE probably
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Most modern devices track the phone even when it's turned off. If you can't remove the battery, leave it at home.
When I shut the lid on my work computer I assumed it was "off" or at least inactive. My home network showed me it was continuing to "check in" throughout the night.
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I’m in one of the bluest. Our police and FBI are not “blue.” American spy forces and “committee on anti-American activities”-ass motherfuckers are not kind or just, no matter the voting tendencies of the populace.
How many decades have we seen far right terror groups overlooked for anti-capitalist leftists? The left threatens the status quo, the right fortifies it. The blue and red dichotomy is the status quo. The democrats support the genocide in Palestine. Going against that status quo makes you not safe from government crackdowns, the party in power is completely irrelevant.
If your "blue leaders" are any good, they enforce psych profiles on police recruitment that ensures you don't have a force full of racist authoritarian law in their own hands radicals, at least for the forces they control - feds may be a different story.
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Faraday bags do not work with modern phones anymore, specifically 5G
Faraday bags work, period, if they are made and used properly. If there's no RF getting in or out, there's no GPS and no checking in with the towers. Inertial navigation doesn't work worth a damn after a little while, and it won't work at all when powered down. Obviously? black tape over the camera lenses unless you're ready to share what they're seeing, and the microphones can listen very well too, it is a phone after all, so bear that in mind.
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people on the internet love to talk about all these great security smart things that they will definitely never do.
leave valuables at home, wear unremarkable clothes, and write your lawyers number on your arm with a sharpie.
personally i bring my phone and a leica. ive been to jail for protesting before and in my current situation i just don't care.
Leica digital or chemical film?
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Leave it at home.
I can understand the wish to film things; I recommend buying a cheap camera, maybe one to strap on your forehead (starting at $20) or an old compact digital camera. Something without any sort of connectivity. Something you can leave behind if the going gets rough.
maybe one to strap on your forehead
They make much more practical chest straps for things like GoPros - you can sort of forget it's there and just let it capture everything. I did that while white-water rafting and it worked very well.
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Or get a burner
And get a burner.
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Why do you need an ID? Leave it in your car if you're driving.
I don't think there's a single state that requires you to actually carry documentation.
These are the states that require you to at least verbally state your name, and only if the officer has reasonable suspicion that you have or will commit a crime.
They can ask your name. You may not have to answer.
Research your state's law on this before you go. It's in the link.
There's legal requirements, then there's practical dealings with officers in the field. Seems to me that these days if you're "undocumented" you're asking to be sent to processing which can be a quick trip to a center somewhere across the country, if that's the mood they're in. After you get out you can try to sue them, maybe even win, but how long before you collect your damages?
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They’re detaining people with Real IDs for hours at a time. It likely makes no difference.
When they've got a cell full of detainees and they're deciding who ICE is going to ship to "advanced processing" who do you think goes to the front of that line? I'm guessing it's the "undocumented," regardless of whatever laws you're focused on.
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And get a burner.
Yeah. And, leave the other at home. Somehow, that mutual exclusivity between devices made me write "or". Hehe.
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Leica digital or chemical film?
m10p with a 28mm and a flash
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Its important because you endanger not just yourself but anyone who is possibly linked through your activities. Your actions are your own responsibility. If you are able to protect others in this Situations you should.
And i hope you only document voilation oft power with your leika and not others protesting.i don't know what you just said but the whole point of a protest is to disrupt in order to be seen.
I went to jail for trespassing. same as everyone else. its bullshit.
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