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What does this mean? What does the zapping accomplish?
by theoreticalmal 2y ago
What does this mean? What does the zapping accomplish?
- Cpoll 2y agoI'm guessing in this context it means drain the battery. I haven't heard of this technique, but it seems plausible, by tricking the phone into constantly transmitting over WiFi or cell.
- dinosaurdynasty 2y agoI wonder how useful purism phones are for this (all external communication, including GPS, has hardware shutoffs). They are expensive though...
- DaSHacka 2y agoCouldn't you achieve the same by just enabling airplane mode or similar on regular devices? I don't think niche devices with hardware killswitches should be necessary
- snypher 2y agoMy S23 enters airplane mode and the WiFi and Bluetooth are still connected... Airplane mode isn't what it used to be!
- portaouflop 2y agoI just have a 20 yo Nokia - doesn’t have all the fancy stuff, only can send texts
- tehjoker 2y agoReducing the ability for protestors to coordinate on the streets.
- RiverCrochet 2y agoGuessing from things I've heard, take this with a grain of salt: - In order for most cellular protocols to work successfully, it's necessary for the transmission power level (phone to tower and tower to phone) to be lowest possible. - So that tx power has to be constantly modulated because the phone's distance is always changing as it moves, meaning the optimum power level is always changing. - The tower is in control of this - it tells the phone how powerful to transmit, and this can be done for each device. - So I would suppose a malicious party in control of the tower could simply tell the phone to transmit at max power, which will drain batteries quickly, especially if the connection is being actively used I guess. This may have interference considerations but if the tower is really a box on top of a car or truck it may not really matter. - I don't know how the phone is prevented from connecting to closer non-malicious towers.
- JohnMakin 2y agoI could hazard a guess that if someone made your phone really hot it would be able to be scanned by thermal imaging and pick you out of a crowd. Just leave phones at home, like, use 18th century methods if you have to. I dont pretend to care or know why people would be interested in this, but like, your phone probably is not your friend in a protest
- HumanOstrich 2y agoSounds like a great movie. When does it come out?
- JohnMakin 2y agonice try diddy