Edward Snowden -- 698d If you take your phone between even just your home and work —doxxed locations— it is trivial to associate it with your true-name identity even if all of the hardware and services are perfectly anonymous. Even journalists have managed these kind of investigations. "Anonymized" location data is unfortunely not anonymous — it *can never* be anonymous. And yet it is sold like any other product. Your phone's movements through physical space are unique. Even if you live in a building of 400 people, the movements of 399 of them are not going to match the tower records of your phone's movements. Even if you work in the same office. People's geographic movements are unique—and identifying. reply [1 reply]If you take your phone between even just your home and work —doxxed locations— it is trivial to associate it with your true-name identity even if all of the hardware and services are perfectly anonymous. Even journalists have managed these kind of investigations. "Anonymized" location data is unfortunely not anonymous — it *can never* be anonymous. And yet it is sold like any other product. Your phone's movements through physical space are unique. Even if you live in a building of 400 people, the movements of 399 of them are not going to match the tower records of your phone's movements. Even if you work in the same office. People's geographic movements are unique—and identifying.
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People really don't realize how utterly dependent modern surveillance is on the idea that everybody is carryinga phone — which is always tracked. Their car has a cellular modem in it — which is always tracked. 99% ofinvestigation is one guy and a search box. If you're not low-hanging fruit, you aren't gonna merit the Eye ofSauron of manual, well-resourced, focused team attention—and if you did, you probably planned ahead for it,right? Because it's not a mystery what would get you on Santa's Naughty List.Anyway, the point is that even in a big city, the phoneless guy in a "covid" mask is going to be invisible toanything less than that exhaustive manual investigation — at least for a few more years. That may go away oncethey start networking all the cameras and having AI start trying to match up clothing sets moving from camera tocamera, butthat capability is hard to hide, so it'll be in the news. And it won't work that well in places withless camera density and, perhaps, for people who wear the most-common outfits (the visual equivalent of a"shared fingerprint").Remember: Phones are useful, but dangerous. And the people who will still wear covid masks to the beach arehelping to normalize facial obscurity—regardless of their intention. Don't be mean to them. Encourage them towear them everywhere. For passport photos. In police booking photos. At the customs desk. Family portraits! Thesky is the limit—let them push the boundaries so that you don't have to.nostr:note1dufu3sutqcu4er2pj9k7zmxdf7k23qxn3eskwdr8tp3ffvg7g9qqsv4lrc
This is why my Phone is Graphene OS, I use VPN, and my computer is linux based.
You'd need your phone not to be linked to your id. Ideally without an IMEI number (if that's possible). Youwould have to make sure your email, social media BANKING on your phone were totally anonymous. Even if you'reusing an esim which is not connected to your id, your phone will still track your movements.Most threat levels won't warrant such paranoia but don't be fooled. I love and use Graphene btw
If you take your phone between even just your home and work —doxxed locations— it is trivial to associate itwith your true-name identity even if all of the hardware and services are perfectly anonymous. Even journalistshave managed these kind of investigations. "Anonymized" location data is unfortunely not anonymous — it *cannever* be anonymous. And yet it is sold like any other product.Your phone's movements through physical space are unique. Even if you live in a building of 400 people, themovements of 399 of them are not going to match the tower records of your phone's movements. Even if you work inthe same office. People's geographic movements are unique—and identifying.
This is why my Phone is Graphene OS, I use VPN, and my computer is linux based.
8a719d42…0fe5 -- 698d [parent] | reply [1 reply]You'd need your phone not to be linked to your id. Ideally without an IMEI number (if that's possible). You would have to make sure your email, social media BANKING on your phone were totally anonymous. Even if you're using an esim which is not connected to your id, your phone will still track your movements. Most threat levels won't warrant such paranoia but don't be fooled. I love and use Graphene btw
I'm not trying to make you guys wrap yourself in tinfoil— almost nobody needs to be as paranoid as I am, and even I am tremendously lazy about opsec these days. The key is *awareness*: to simply be cognizant of what kind of records you're generating as you go about your life, so you can make informed, reasoned judgments about how much of it you can leave hanging out, and what parts of it you'd rather pay an effort-tax to shield from appearing in somebody's (or everybody's) database.