• oshu@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Start protecting your privacy by not visiting the Verge and the 876 partners they share your personal data with.

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    Buy a burner, keep the battery out until you arrive at the protest, remove the battery when you leave the protest. Don’t store any phone numbers in that phone.

    Not that protesting will do anything anymore, that time has come and gone

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      No offense but obeying in advance is fucking pathetic and it is what your last comment is doing.

      Any civil disobedience does matter and changes alot more than you think. They also want you to think it doesnt matter, it does.

      It is also dangerous to tell others protesting wont do anything, you are spreading fascist fears and you dont even know it.

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      I disagree about saving numbers, you should add your emergency contacts and anyone you went with in case you get separated or shit goes down

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    7 months ago

    Do not bring your phone with you to a protest.

    If you really need a phone on you, get a burner phone with a prepaid card not linked to your person. But remember, MITM attacks are possible and the police can intercept your traffic and in some cases even compromise your E2EE services (if the key exchange takes place on a compromised spoofed network, see stingrays [1]).

    If communication is necessary, get a meshtastic device. It’s not the most reliable, and the channels can be jammed, but no one will bother with that. Because they work on usual IoT/smart home appliances frequencies, there is so much interference in cities that triangulating your position in a crowd of people isn’t very realistic.

    [1] https://theintercept.com/2020/07/31/protests-surveillance-stingrays-dirtboxes-phone-tracking/

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    7 months ago

    What a boring dystopian article. It’s sad, but necessary.

    purchase and use a burner phone instead, and only turn it on when you’re at the site of the demonstration

    This should be the de facto response. In addition, I’d suggest not using your personal phone for any protest related communications and stick with burners no matter how much you may trust the organizers.