'stealth' & fashion: new levels of hipster martyrdom.
Stealth Wear, Coming to a Store Near You
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unless you take the battery out how do you know your phone is ever off. It doesn't just have hardware toggle button probably. So you'd have to take the battery out. Well then isn't it easier to put it in a Faraday cage than mess with the battery.
And how exactly do you plan to use your phone? As soon as you take it out it can transmit everything it captured while in there. This thing is useless for a cell phone.
It isn't going to be able to record without a battery...
Re: Stealth Wear, Coming to a Store Near You
#53Couldn't you just line a ziplock bag with a couple layers of tinfoil? Also, when you put your phone in there it cuts off its WiFi, cellular connection, and 3g/4g, which means your phone is useless while it's in there. You might as well just take the battery out when you don't want to be tracked and save yourself $400.
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#54One of the most important reasons I have a cell phone is so that my wife can reach me in an emergency. Disabling that functionality makes this a non-starter for me, even though I hate the idea of my every movement being tracked.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
And how exactly do you plan to use your phone? As soon as you take it out it can transmit everything it captured while in there. This thing is useless for a cell phone.
It isn't going to be able to record without a battery...
If you take out the battery why are you using this pouch?
Again, this pouch is useless.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Reread your Kaczynski.
What are you trying to say?
New technologies are like ratchets. When they become commonplace, it's extremely hard to not participate. Cars were a luxury in 1908, but today (except for a few dense areas), they're a basic necessity. It's certainly possible to not have a mobile phone, it's just not ever going to be a very popular choice.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
It isn't going to be able to record without a battery...
If you take out the battery why are you using this pouch? Again, this pouch is useless.
It prevents a straight forward tracking and forces anyone wishing to track you using a cellphone to throw a lot more resources at you than before. Inside the case it doesn't get any simple tracking info, the only thing it really gets would be physical orientation (gyroscope, accelerometer, and compass) and audio.
In order to turn the first into tracking the phone has to either do the inertial tracking itself (possible but computationally expensive and it diverges pretty quickly unless there have been some major improvements).
The second requires some luck involving an identifiable sound marker some where in the recording then the processing power to cross reference everything.
It's a mistake to confuse imperfect with useless.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
The use is knowing your phone isn't sending or receiving a signal. The value is anonymity with the option of being able to use it when you want. The true value is having a real "off" switch.
> The true value is having a real "off" switch. Despite the conspiracy theories, your phone already has an off switch.
And?
Doesn't mean this isn't of use, or that I'm reaching for a conspiracy. But a faraday cage to prevent communication might come in handy every now and again.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you take out the battery why are you using this pouch? Again, this pouch is useless.
It prevents a straight forward tracking and forces anyone wishing to track you using a cellphone to throw a lot more resources at you than before. Inside the case it doesn't get any simple tracking info, the only thing it really gets would be physical orientation (gyroscope, accelerometer, and compass) and audio. In order to turn the first into tracking the phone has to either do the inertial tracking itself (possibl…
It's useless.
Just turn the phone off. Or really just the GPS off since that's the only thing this thing blocks.