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Well it’s time for everyone to do their civic duty and drive by an abortion clinic once or twice a month and sit in the parking lot for 5 or 10mins to fuck up their data.
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What we need is a phone mode that disconnects from the cell network periodically when not in use, then bounces back up to check for notifications. Obviously this mode wouldn’t be good for people who need to be available by phone, but who calls nowadays? ;)
Your survival kit:
Empty GrapheneOS Pixel 6a bought with cash that isn’t your daily driver (last Pixel with snapdragon chip that allows IMEI changes)
JMP.chat
Silent.link
Sensors off (developer options)
Bluetooth/WiFi/NFC off
Offline maps/airplane mode when navigating/at destination
Infrared AND polarized license plate covers. Remove any and all bumper stickers and other accessories that can be fingerprinted
IR blocking lens sunglasses for facial recognition
And of course, it wouldn’t be complete without the tor browser over a trustworthy VPN
So yeah fuck the police
Until you get pulled over for those plate covers.
The plate number is visible from behind with the naked eye and the cover is pretty low profile. There are “tinted” covers from amazon that don’t actually protect you from cameras and look WAY more suspicious. At least the ones I’ve used, there has never been a problem. I actually got pulled over one time after an 8 hour drive from St. louis to Atlanta. I arrived at about 5am and forgot to turn my headlights back on after filling up with gas and a cop followed me and pulled me over. Mind you, I had a $300 bag of cannabis products from a dispensary in the trunk (reason for the trip + housesitting for free room and board for a month). It freaked me out a little bit, but he said nothing about the plates and let me go. I don’t know if he noticed. If it scares you that much just make sure you have good situational awareness on the road. Even if you do get pulled over for the plates it’s just a fine.
Regardless, it is illegal in most (all?) states to obscure your plate in any way, and they can ticket you if they feel like it. It’s a “reason” to pull you over… sounds like you just got pulled over by someone who wasn’t an asshole.
I don’t know how the laws work regarding this outside the states though.
The laws vary by state to state. California law specifically prohibits covers that prevent cameras from reading the tag, but in Alabama the law has a loophole, which I’m sure it shares with some other states.
"Alabama Code Title 32. Motor Vehicles and Traffic § 32-6-51
Every motor vehicle operator who operates a motor vehicle upon any city street or other public highway of or in this state shall at all times keep attached and plainly visible on the rear end of such motor vehicle a license tag or license plate as prescribed and furnished by the Department of Revenue at the time the owner or operator purchases his license.
Anyone violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction, be punished by fine not exceeding $500.00 and, in addition thereto, shall be prohibited from driving a motor vehicle in Alabama for a period of not less than 60 days nor more than six months."
As you can see, the plate must only be visible with the naked eye. In any case, even if you were driving in California the only way a cop would know it blocks cameras is if they had a mounted plate reader using IR and you had the IR cover. To avoid that you could simply remove it and only keep the one which turns black at an angle. Their reader will be none the wiser, and it will still be more effective than nothing.
Thus, for the time being, if you’re in the US or some other nation that has issues with women’s health, do not take your phone to the abortion clinic with you, or turn it off and stuff it in a Faraday cage until you’re at least a block away.
That’s not enough, a better idea is to, somehow, poison the location data. Otherwise by disabling location tracking you still leak the information that you are going to a clinic.
poison the location data i.e. leaving it at home?
Or you can disable it from time to time at random when you’re doing something innocuous, and obscure the pattern that way. Which is probably easier for the average person than figuring out a second method of tampering with their phone.
You can’t, even when you disable location it still keeps track of where you are with cell towers and some GPS. It just doesn’t tell you that it still is collecting data.
Leave your phone at home sometimes, and when you need the abortion, just do that!
As in, every time you go on a walk, leave your phone at home, and then they lack of data will just be normal.
I didn’t mean disable it in software, I meant physically disable it by stuffing the phone in a Faraday cage (you can buy them for phones in the form of pouches with metal worked into them), which blocks electromagnetic radiation and therefore prevents the phone from contacting towers or satellites.
Maybe clinics should start mailing out Faraday pouches ahead of appointments?
I’m sure they don’t need the extra expense but this is fucked up.
They could just work that into the cost of service. So you make an appointment and it costs whatever amount it costs. And that cost also includes the mailing to you of a Faraday bag.
Conservatives have already said that they want to inspect children’s genitals, so it’s only a matter of time until they start saying that they want to regularly inspect women’s genitals as well to “protect unborn children” (read: control women and fulfill their sick fetish)
