• _bcron_@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    There’s really no law against using geofencing, just laws allowing admissability. Have a 2nd phone without a SIM and use it at hotspots for encrypted stuff, leave the main one at home if you’re feeling fat and sassy

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      19 days ago

      I’m just saying that, unless you built the device you’re using, and you know what every component does, and you know what it’s doing when, and you know it wasn’t manufactured by a foreign state-owned manufacturer with a penchant for putting spy chips in their devices, then you can’t truly trust anything you do on it, encrypted or not. It doesn’t really matter if the software is being encrypted by backdoored hardware.

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        19 days ago

        Yeah, we’re in agreement, but also, if any device can be traced back to you in any way (ie: cell phone bill), it’s 100% sus, regardless of what you have installed or what preventative measures you’ve taken. If you ping some towers there’s a non-zero chance someone notices, and you’d be better off not having some easily-tracked signature behind it.

        It’s basically just an addendum, leave all personal devices at home when doing anything remotely sketchy, or for the sake of privacy, but a burner phone off ebay with no sim in airplane mode is about as hard to track as anything