Taggart Oct 12

There are some reports of Stingray activity in Portland.

https://san.com/cc/exclusive-fake-cellphone-tower-likely-surveilled-protesters-at-portland-ice-facility/

If you're in an occupied city, Rayhunter may be valuable to you: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-open-source-tool-eff-detect-cellular-spying

Exclusive: Fake cellphone tower may have surveilled protesters at Portland ICE facility

Law enforcement officials may have deployed a secretive cellphone surveillance technology last weekend at Portland’s ICE facility.

Straight Arrow News
Show threadaburka 🫣Oct 12
@mttaggart what exactly do we do about it once we detect them though
Show threadTaggart 

@aburka I'm not going to pretend to be an expert in this realm, but I would imagine that the order of priorities would be to:

  • Cease all unencrypted communications
  • Inform all parties with whom you were communicating during the action
  • Back up your data, destroy the phone and get a new phone/phone number? This one is more speculative and I think depends largely on your threat model concerning local, state, and federal law enforcement.

    • I'm very happy to hear additions/corrections to this list.

    Oct 12 at 3:20amWeb
    Show threadauggie ✿Oct 12
    @mttaggart @aburka honestly, one shouldnt even bring their phone to demonstrations in the first place. lots of protest safety guides just recommend you dont bring a device to a demonstration. but if you absolutely must do it should be a throwaway device you dont care about and has absolutely nothing personal or anything related to the demonstration (resources pertaining to it, chats, pictures/videos, etc) should it get seized if you get arrested or should it connect to the mobile network and be intercepted in someway like this.
    Show threadTaggart Oct 12
    @june @aburka I've read those guides but I think we have to recognize that this is not an actionable plan for all who attend.