Someone's gotta record the fascism.

I go to protests without my phone, and I'm afraid every time.

I get that nothing is likely to happen to me, but it could. I get that this is am irrational fear. But idk strategically what to do.

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.

No. If the data exists at any point, then a future threat will be able to exploit it, so full on nazi style fascism might not be here yet, but when it is, you'll be in danger. Data can sleep forever before it becomes a threat.

ICE has literally started going door to door in Minnesota looking for immigrants and activists. It's already starting, people need to be protecting their privacy now.

Its not the device cracking that's the problem; its the "your device was identified at the protest we have labeled a riot and has been tracked to your home, which we will now raid in the middle of the night".

And bring a separate video camera

Yes a burner that you don’t activate. Keep it in a faraday bag. In an emergency you can take it out and call 911.

Yep, ding ding ding, buy a burner phone, with cash, from a store that doesn't have many or very good cameras.

Bringing your real main phone is you thinking you know more about cybersecurity and surveillance than Palantir, than all the cybersec and intel firms the US Mil and Police departments have been partnering with with over a decade now.

99.99999999% chance you don't.

That and cell towers….

But a cheap burner. Don’t activate it. Keep it in a faraday pouch. In an emergency remove from faraday pouch and call 911. You can do that on phones you don’t activate.

But everything else, like you said, document with a digital camera.

GrapheneOS or KaiOS?

I use my android phons without a google acccount without having a custom rom, it is usable just that most people are too ignorant and clueless

I got a body cam for about $50 amazon dot com/dp/B0BHZ4PRRG, currently unavailable. Makes a great dashcam too. When the usb charging cable is plugged in it turns on when you start your car and turns off when you turn off your car.

The only thing you're missing is to put a piece of white tape on the sole of your shoe. When you are lying on the ground It's a cop signal that you are an undercover agent.

Off should be off. Airplane mode often leaves WiFi and Bluetooth on because airplanes allow them. And GPS doesn't transmit anything, but if it's enabled it's still recording your location.

Modern phones rotate random MAC addresses. For WiFi, capturing SSID probes can be enough to track somebody though (some phones also have some mitigation for that too, like not probing for an SSID after it hasn't been seen for some amount of time). Even when turned off, many phones, including iPhones, turn into BLE beacons similar to AirTags, which can be used to track you.

Thank you, I have been saying this. Use a regular camera and be sure to delete meta data off images and videos when uploading!

You wanted to bring attention to it but you couldn't bother to say what it is?

I really really hope that this takes off.

Haven't used my client in almost a year, but my repeater is still running strong.

Burner sim won't help, you need a burner phone too.

A VPN does not stop location data for your physical device when looking at cellular data from the carrier. Your location can and is always triangulated using cell towers. VPNs only ever protect your IP address from being geolocated and encrypting the data downloaded and uploaded while connected. Bit streams are still sent and received from a physical place in the world before the VPN hides your traffic and that is recorded by the cell provider.

I turned off biometrics for unlocking the phone. Still works for downloads, passwords, everything but unlocking the phone. I’ve barely noticed a change.

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

Leave the pay-as-you-go phone powered off too, and only power it up if you actually have to use it. If you have to use it once, you need to get a replacement for a future event.

I'm thinking perhaps something like Meshtastic transmitters and receivers should be used for coordination instead.

leave your primary phone ON at home.

Right? It’s like these guys have never seen The Wire.

I believe there are Bluetooth network protocols that mesh that would work for messaging and not require cell service. It would be smart to organize using something like that and just use any cell phone without cell service turned on. That still gives you the ability to call 911 in case of emergencies as well.

Interesting, but $25 a month. Tello dot com has a cheap plan for $7.91 a month after taxes and fees. I use it on a $50 Amazon blu phone because I wanted something else for 2FA, and I have a phone ready if my main one breaks or gets lost.