Phone Is a Snitch – Untraceable Digital Dissident

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fsflover · 15h ago

> Think powering it off helps? Try again. Unless you physically remove the battery (good luck with that), your device still pings quietly in the background.

My phone has physical kill switches for the modem, WiFi+Bluetooth, camera+mic (and all three together kill all sensors). So whenever I need privacy I have it, while still being able to connect at will. There is no reason to completely avoid cell phones, as the article suggests.

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Phone Is a Snitch – Untraceable Digital Dissident

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