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And watching other actors pop batteries in and out of burner phones. "The network knows where your phone is" is a well established part of pop tech assumptions.
by usrusr 3y ago
And watching other actors pop batteries in and out of burner phones. "The network knows where your phone is" is a well established part of pop tech assumptions.
Despite all this, if it came to overthrow a surprise dictatorship tomorrow qI'd still expect almost everybody, myself included as well as a majority of hn readers almost as big as that amongst the general population, to naively show up at the street riots with their devices happily logged into the network. But not a single one of them would do so because they believed that toggling the GPS feature to off somehow protected them.
- acdha 3y ago> I'd still expect almost everybody, myself included as well as a majority of hn readers almost as big as that amongst the general population, to naively show up at the street riots with their devices happily logged into the network I agree this would be common but lower percentages after the George Floyd protests got a LOT of widely-circulated warnings on social media, and then a bit later a ton of right-wingers were getting rounded up for January 6th. I think those were eye opening for a lot of the people for whom this is likely to be relevant.