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A thread of a few reasons wholeheartedly trusting digital security is a bad idea.
There are a number of ways cops can use your phone against you. Encryption is great, but they can bypass it illegally and use other legal but tenuous reasons to prosecute you. 1/x
There are a number of ways cops can use your phone against you. Encryption is great, but they can bypass it illegally and use other legal but tenuous reasons to prosecute you. 1/x
Police can now use geofence warrants:
https://dailydot.com/debug/geofencing-warrants-surveillance-police/…
Geofence warrants mean anyone whose cell pinged a tower in an area can be arrested. Its dystopian and infringes on several rights but remember rights dont exist anyway. 2/x
https://dailydot.com/debug/geofencing-warrants-surveillance-police/…
Geofence warrants mean anyone whose cell pinged a tower in an area can be arrested. Its dystopian and infringes on several rights but remember rights dont exist anyway. 2/x
Police don't need warrants to access data anyway:
https://www.npr.org/2017/02/17/515841069/local-police-departments-invest-in-cell-phone-spy-tools?t=1600632596801
Police can also rip the data from your phone in minutes. This article is through a device but it’s possible to do remotely:
https://thenextweb.com/us/2011/04/20/us-police-can-copy-your-iphones-contents-in-under-two-minutes/
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https://www.npr.org/2017/02/17/515841069/local-police-departments-invest-in-cell-phone-spy-tools?t=1600632596801
Police can also rip the data from your phone in minutes. This article is through a device but it’s possible to do remotely:
https://thenextweb.com/us/2011/04/20/us-police-can-copy-your-iphones-contents-in-under-two-minutes/
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Feds are now working with local PD all over the country. Feds are sharing tech with local PD and establishing policing tech hubs. There are 130 law enforcement tech hubs around the country capable of real time cross platform surveillance:
https://venturebeat.com/2020/07/13/atlas-of-surveillance-now-provides-searchable-interactive-database-of-police-surveillance/
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https://venturebeat.com/2020/07/13/atlas-of-surveillance-now-provides-searchable-interactive-database-of-police-surveillance/
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Feds are already remote installing keyloggers:
https://www.cnet.com/news/feds-use-keylogger-to-thwart-pgp-hushmail/
This means local PD can do the same. A keylogger records everything you type, making encryption pretty useless. The concrete fortress of your Signal app can have a wooden side door installed. 5/x
https://www.cnet.com/news/feds-use-keylogger-to-thwart-pgp-hushmail/
This means local PD can do the same. A keylogger records everything you type, making encryption pretty useless. The concrete fortress of your Signal app can have a wooden side door installed. 5/x
They can use fake cell towers to track your phone, wiretap it, and jam it. Which means they also have the capability to send data to it. Add this the last few tweets, and cops can gather the data off the phones of every single person at a protest.
6/x https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/quick-and-dirty-guide-cell-phone-surveillance-protests
6/x https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/quick-and-dirty-guide-cell-phone-surveillance-protests
Heres a crappy article spelling out how bad all cellphones are with security:
https://www.techradar.com/news/8-reasons-why-smartphones-are-privacy-nightmare
The mic & camera can be remote turned on. So after the protest when you go home with a virus from the local PDs fake cell tower, they can spy on you with impunity. 7/x
https://www.techradar.com/news/8-reasons-why-smartphones-are-privacy-nightmare
The mic & camera can be remote turned on. So after the protest when you go home with a virus from the local PDs fake cell tower, they can spy on you with impunity. 7/x
The geofencing warrants previously mentioned plus this last bit means they can get a warrant for invasive stuff from you being in a protest, track you home, listen in on you, figure out who else is there, then because they can use RICO on us, get into that persons phone too. 8/x
“But I use a burner phone at protests!”
All you have to do is mess up once & have its battery in while having your regular phones battery in, or have the switchover happen in the same place. Ever forgot your wallet at home? Its that level forgetfulness that’s totally damning 9/x
All you have to do is mess up once & have its battery in while having your regular phones battery in, or have the switchover happen in the same place. Ever forgot your wallet at home? Its that level forgetfulness that’s totally damning 9/x
What can be done then?
Well, nothing. We use Signal and other security measures to POSTPONE the inevitable, not stop it. We as revolutionaries are doomed. They will catch us eventually. Just be smart about it and stay alive long enough to do something meaningful. 10/x
Well, nothing. We use Signal and other security measures to POSTPONE the inevitable, not stop it. We as revolutionaries are doomed. They will catch us eventually. Just be smart about it and stay alive long enough to do something meaningful. 10/x
