I wonder if anyone has made a "burner phone fixtures" toolkit that populates a burner phone with plausible looking but innocuous photos, contacts, calendar events, email accounts, etc to make a burner look legit?
Would be handy for people to can't avoid travelling to fascist states like the US or when engaging actually-legitimate-but-now-criminalised activities like protests in borderline fascist states like Australia.
COLUMN - Mijn dochter van 11 heeft een ‘burner phone‘. En dat had de school kunnen voorkomen. Ik maak me zorgen over hoe afhankelijk we ons hebben gemaakt van aantoonbaar kwaadaardige bedrijven (zoals Facebook’s Meta) en hen echt zo’n beetje alles van ons laten weten. Een manier waarop we dat doen, is door WhatsApp op […]
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I guard my #privacy and the only way I can bear to use WhatsApp is to have a second "burner" phone devoid of any names in the contacts. To function in modern society WhatsApp seems regrettably unavailable but this allows me to join in, supping with a very long spoon.
I also use it for shopping, where you have to provide a phone number. I set the burner phone to ping any text messages to my real phone.
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Heading out to a protest? Plotting resistance with others? Just tired of constant snooping, tracking and profiling? You may need a #BurnerPhone - but you may not know how to set it up or properly use it. That’s why @RazPie on Reddit made a quick slide and text show to explain the steps involved. From purchase to setup, even Faraday bags… A very useful guide indeed. #OpSec #InfoSec #surveillance #privacy
"Ouch! BLOODY HELL, this hurts!"
"What happened?"
"I touched that phone."
"It looks norm.... Ouch! FUCK! What's wrong with this phone?"
"I think it's a burner!"
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