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Next step, Chinese intelligence hacks their database of verified phone numbers. Anonymity over. Having the resources of a nation state, they could probably do it easily.
Or join as a malicious node. There is no panacea without control over some infrastructure.
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This burner phone and your "real" phone are going to be easy to correlate retroactively based on the towers they are both hitting
this is why you remove the battery of the burner until you use it. remove the battery and sim of your compromised phone relocate yourself install sim and battery of your burner
If the legit phone goes off while the burner is on that's a pattern. If the legit phone goes off and (travel time / distance) elapses before burner appears (travel time / distance) away from the last legit ping that's a pattern. If the legit phone and burner phone hit the same towers at the same time more than 3 times that's a pattern. If the burner phone spends most of the time off (battery out, faraday cage etc) then the times it does connect are even stronger signals.
You need to generate a ton of "noise" data where both phones are hitting different towers at the same time on a constant basis; and never being together. Maybe mailing the burner phone on a regular basis between isolated locations that the real phone never goes to?
Cell tower data is incredibly powerful for tracking people.
No closed source mesh networking can be secure. However good user experience it has. They are no different than using WhatsApp. Indeed in that respect at least Signal is better. I am not sure why protestors did not adopt the open source serval mesh project apk and ios app. [1] In Hong Kong given the density of building it's bit hard to have a line of sight, so it will still be hard to build a local network. But it's…
Because Serval isn't in the App Store yet?
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Because Serval isn't in the App Store yet?
I believe that's the point. You need to download the APK or whatever IOS provides for developer packages. This means less tracking from the vendor (Google, Apple)
I just tried the app via the US App Store and it requires you to verify through SMS before use. This means that it’s neither anonymous nor fit for use in a disaster zone. Good example of software that would be better if open source.
Next step, Chinese intelligence hacks their database of verified phone numbers. Anonymity over. Having the resources of a nation state, they could probably do it easily.
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Apparently you need to fail verification a few times before it'll present the option. I kept giving it bogus phone numbers and eventually a "skip" button appeared.
I wouldn't trust an app where the first thing you have to do is navigate dark patterns.
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I believe that's the point. You need to download the APK or whatever IOS provides for developer packages. This means less tracking from the vendor (Google, Apple)
There is no way to install apps on ios outside the appstore.
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Because Serval isn't in the App Store yet?
I believe that's the point. You need to download the APK or whatever IOS provides for developer packages. This means less tracking from the vendor (Google, Apple)
https://servalpaul.blogspot.com/2018/11/serval-chat-ios-port...
2) This wasn't planned out months in advance. This is a protest that is organically sprouting up. Nobody wants to add jailbreaking or xCode to the onboarding process for people to join a protest movement.
3) I think worrying about Apple tracking what apps you install is the least of anyone's problems there at the moment.
No closed source mesh networking can be secure. However good user experience it has. They are no different than using WhatsApp. Indeed in that respect at least Signal is better. I am not sure why protestors did not adopt the open source serval mesh project apk and ios app. [1] In Hong Kong given the density of building it's bit hard to have a line of sight, so it will still be hard to build a local network. But it's…
The background makes it kinda hard to read
To be fair, China doesn't block access to any websites in Hong Kong. In a sense, it's a freer internet than in the US (zero sites blocked, plus piracy is allowed).
At this moment. There was a piece posted to HN last week that Hong Kong's ISPs have been asked, or fear being asked, to implement a firewall similar to China's. Hong Kong's ISP association published a public letter of protest about it. Edit: Found it - https://www.hkispa.org.hk/139-urgent-statement-of-hkispa-on-...
This outrage came after some top pro-Beijing politicians said that declaring an emergency situation is still on the table, by doing so, it would allow the government to block certain internet services.
Pro-Beijing politicians always use harsh language. The same way PLA officers hinted that the PLA could be deployed in HK if requested by the government.