Improve Your Privacy in the Age of Mass Surveillance

Re:Improve Your Privacy in the Age of Mass Surveillance by trumped on Sunday June 03, 2018 @09:51AM (#17219508)

I think that you underestimate them... How often do you change your burner phones? Do you turn them off before you get back home? do you use different phones/computers for different purposes?, etc... if want to be truly untraceable, it is not practical at all.

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Re:Improve Your Privacy in the Age of Mass Surveillance by mirimir on Sunday June 03, 2018 @04:30PM (#17221660)

I have just two phones, a smartphone for work, and an old dumb one for friends and family. Using those, I am entirely unremarkable.

I have occasionally used burner phones. Except when in use, I would remove the batteries and store them in an old steel paint can, with a charger. In the back of my vehicle, with tools. I never opened the can unless I was a few hundred km from my home and work. Supposedly on camping/fishing trips, and I lied about where I was going. Using an old vehicle, and keeping to back roads.

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Re:Improve Your Privacy in the Age of Mass Surveillance by trumped on Monday June 04, 2018 @06:24PM (#17233185)

You might or might not be remarkable but even if what you do is of no interest to the NSA, they know a lot about you and you are not doing enough if you are trying to avoid the NSA net.

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