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Phone hacks
Wad up 2 pieces of aluminum foil big enough to wrap your phone in. Carefully pull apart your foil. Wrap you phone in your crinkled up foil with no gaps. Get someone to call your phone then. Tip from monty and it works
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what is it supposed to do??
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You can’t call it. It seems to block the signal , thus maybe tracking
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👍 cool
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This is good for hiding your location if you don’t want to be found. I went to lineage OS on my phone and removed all Google services.
Covid tracking is something I did not want to buy in my phone, and tracking stays on even when you turn it off. I am starting to believe ham radio may be a better option.
Also be aware they can track your device by mac address, there is a database kept of mac addresses and locations.
I am looking at a pine phone for my next phone so I can flip a switch and all is OFF via hardware.
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need a sat phone
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They have their own problems as well, expensive, and you stand out if you have a sat phone.
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Ham radio may be a good option, but remember, per the rules, all users need to be licensed. Depending on your license, ham radio offers many different bands on which to operate, some with global reach.
Another option for local communications is GMRS. It operates on frequencies close to those of the 70cm ham band, and has similar performance to that band. In fact, GMRS can use the same frequencies as FRS (so-called “bubble pack”) radios. GMRS has the advantage that one license covers the licensee’s entire family to a large extent (as I recall, it doesn’t cover cousins of the licensee). GMRS also allows the use of repeaters for extended coverage. A well placed repeater can often have a usable range of 20 miles or more, generally within approximate line-of-sight.
Location tracking is possible with radio, however, it is much less invasive than it is with cell phones. Location tracking of radios basically needs to be done within the range of the radio, so they generally can’t be tracked remotely. Some radios have GPS built in, and can transmit location data via the APRS protocol, allowing you to provide your location to others. Most radios, however, do not have GPS built in, so the only way to track location is by signal triangulation, in which case, if your radio isn’t transmitting, it can’t be tracked.
Conversations on radio are not private. Other people are able to hear your conversations. Even if using “private channels” as some brands like to call them, they are not private. All the “private channels” do is exclude other radios from being heard unless they select the same private channel. Encryption of radio traffic is not permitted by FCC regulations.
I recommend that most people get a GMRS license for their family, and several radios for use around their home. Handheld radios can be found in the $30 to $40 price range. Mobile radios and repeaters can add a bit more cost, but they aren’t necessary for beginning users.
The biggest advantage (in my opinion) to handheld radios, other than the tracking protection they offer, is that they provide a back-up means of communicating when phones don’t work.
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You can actually get less expensive radios but get a good antenna that makes a difference 🥰
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I don’t have a cell phone but I do have a laptop. I am getting very close to just getting offline altogether. I don’t like the way this world is going. Better, maybe, to just unplug altogether and go on living like people are supposed.
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I feel the same as you and I want to move to a smaller town that is more like the 70`s🎯
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I there with you. Small town I wish
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Are you running Linux on your laptop? If not, you’re subject to snooping by Microsoft and/or Apple by default by using one of their operating systems.
In addition, depending on how your system is configured and the applications you use, you could be inviting snooping from other big tech companies like Google and Facebook. Many Linux applications are free and open source, and do not suffer from the same tracking that Windows and Mac applications do.
I understand your desire to unplug, and from a personal privacy standpoint, that is the most effective way to protect yourself. If the things you do with your computer don’t require you to be online, then unplugging it could be a good option.
If the things you do with your computer require you to be online, then there are some additional things you can do to protect your privacy. One is to use a VPN. Another is to use a VPN service. Yet another option is to use a privacy focused browser like TOR, brave, or Librewolf.
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This reply was modified 11 months, 4 weeks ago by Farm-Ranch-Homestead. Reason: Added info
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Not yet I am involved in a currency reval and I am not changing anything until I get a new laptop. Our monetary system is changing so ( along with bye- den going down) I am waiting.
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No, it is not LINUX or UNIX. It’s an Apple laptop which is as bad, if not worse, than Microsoft when it comes to being tracked.
Only my utilities and insurance bills require me to go online, but I could always use the library computers once a month to pay them and still not have a laptop.
It’s such a waste of time, this thing. When I put music on my stereo, I get tons done, but the second I open the laptop, I’m sucked into a world I don’t want to live in for four hours at a time and not even feel time pass. I am so over it. 😛
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If you shut off your phone doesn’t that work too? Only turning it on when needed?
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No, you have to take the battery out
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Some phones can be turned on remotely by either your carrier, or by Apple or Google, depending on the phone.
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And not only that they talk to other phones via the new blue tooth and transmit data via bluetooth grid.
it is good to have a plan for what is coming to know that your phone reports on you.
I know a guy who used wifi only for phone calls, he uses a VOIP service. He has a hardware switch for turning off the cell antenna which I think is a smart way of doing it.
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But 99% of other people aren’t going to have working phones. Who are you gonna call?
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I am a Ham Radio operator. I am not sure about that foil idea I tried it once but couldn’t test the theory. I am also an IT tech..short lived career 😂
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JUST SMASH IT WITH a hammer lol,dont need no stinking phone dixy cup and a string🤠
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I tried the aluminum foil wrapped around my phone and had my husband call my number. It worked, no cell reception and my phone didn’t even register a missed call.
We have a friend that while he was in the early stages of dementia, wrapped his phone in aluminum foil because he wasn’t recognizing the numbers or people calling him anymore. Folks thought he was nuts, but I think he was pretty smart to know the foil would work. We kept a close eye on him until his family moved him into a home. So sad when we loose are memories but he was smart enough to use foil on his phone!
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Okay, this may be overkill, but I had to renew my driver’s license and did not want the star ID, but my license came with it anyway. I have it wrapped in foil in my wallet. 🤣🤣
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This doesn’t always work. I have tested it many times.
Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn’t. It works more on older phones because I think the newer phones have stronger powered antennas.
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