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Presume any phone you own has malware in it, and adjust your behavior accordingly. This means putting the phone in a Faraday sleeve when not using it, so it can
by legrande 5y ago
Presume any phone you own has malware in it, and adjust your behavior accordingly. This means putting the phone in a Faraday sleeve when not using it, so it can't communicate with a C2, putting black nail varnish on the camera, keeping the phone in another room when having a sensitive conversation, etc
For doing the crimes, use a desktop PC with a TailsOS flash drive and communicate with XMPP with OTR preferably with Intel Management Engine neutered and removed. Do Not use a smartphone or dumbphone for criminal dealings.
- askonomm 5y agoCan't tell if you are being serious or not.
- celim307 5y agoFor a certain demographic this is good advice
- askonomm 5y agoFor criminals, I guess?
- recursive 5y agoEveryone's a criminal. Some just haven't been charged or convicted yet.
- celim307 5y agoBusiness secrets, political dissidents, journalists. Let’s not start the “if you got nothing to hide” argument
- atok1 5y agoHey, we can't slander or marginalize any group now. Criminals have rights!
- gpm 5y agoIntelligence agencies are a lot more likely to be using illegal malware than law enforcement. Criminals are actually pretty far down the list of people who should be concerned. Think political dissidents and groups that support them like citizenlab.org, people working on classified projects - or with geopolitcally important trade secrets (which is actually a pretty broad range), members of the military in times of war - or when working with classified information/going to classified locations, people susceptible to being blackmailed with things like nudes of themselves, and so on and so forth.
- alisonkisk 5y agowhy use the phone at all? its still not safe, because it tracks your movements.
- JohnJamesRambo 5y agoI’m firmly in Poe’s Law land on this one as well.
- IshKebab 5y agoThis is HN so definitely serious. There are a lot of people with rather distorted views of reality here. Also armchair criminal masterminds apparently.
- RotaryTelephone 5y agoFound the criminal.
- contravariant 5y agoMy preferred method is to skip to the end and just carry around a brick. Attaching a message to it and throwing it is a pretty effective way of communicating, provided the recipient is using windows.
- grishka 5y agoBut what if they are using linux
- dredmorbius 5y agoMouldy corn, obviously.
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- dtgriscom 5y agoYou have to tie a string to it, so you can reclaim it before sending your next message.
- npteljes 5y ago>putting the phone in a Faraday sleeve when not using it Why, so that it can send the accumulated data the next time you're using the phone?
- meowster 5y agoI think the idea is that it can't be tracked, but unless the gyroscope and accelerometers are disabled somehow, at least it won't be tracking in realtime.
- beckman466 5y ago> Presume any phone you own has malware in it, and adjust your behavior accordingly. This means putting the phone in a Faraday sleeve when not using it, so it can't communicate with a C2, putting black nail varnish on the camera, keeping the phone in another room when having a sensitive conversation, etc This solution is of course a nonsolution. It vaguely acknowledges the problem of NSA spying yet does not offer a meaningful collective response to counter it (e.g. pushing for open source movement and technology embedded in an anti-capitalist framework/system).