Lifting the Shadows of the NSA’s Equation Group

Re:Lifting the Shadows of the NSA’s Equation Group by kardos on Monday August 15, 2016 @05:44PM (#12293717)

The list of people who downloaded an offline google translate app followed by their phone going dark is probably not lengthy.

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Re:Lifting the Shadows of the NSA’s Equation Group by kuschku on Monday August 15, 2016 @05:48PM (#12293748)

That's why you buy a 10$ android phone at black friday sale, download via public WiFi in a mall in a different city than your own, preferably a different country when you're just travelling through, and so on.

Btw, if you're in Germany, you might still have a chance to get an anonymous prepaid SIM in the next weeks before the carriers adapt to the legal change - you can use that, too.

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Re:Lifting the Shadows of the NSA’s Equation Group by semi-extrinsic on Monday August 15, 2016 @07:29PM (#12294357)

I believe anonymous prepaid SIMs will keep existing in the UK for a long time. I used to have a Tesco Pay-as-you-go SIM card, bought and topped-up anonymously with cash, £12.50 a month for a semi-usable package with 1 GB data. Looks like they still have them:

http://shop.tescomobile.com/pay-monthly/sim-only/Tesco+Mobil...

With roaming in the EU becoming free mid-2017, and Brexit not coming into effect til 2019, the whole EU will still be well covered by anonymous prepaid.

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Re:Lifting the Shadows of the NSA’s Equation Group by Godel_unicode on Monday August 15, 2016 @08:05PM (#12294536)

You think not? Download dictionary before international flight, travel, lose phone.

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Re:Lifting the Shadows of the NSA’s Equation Group by kardos on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @01:05AM (#12295646)

So further filter by those who didn't travel shortly afterwards. Small enough list yet?

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