Ava on Nostr: I recommend always wearing a "covid" mask in public for facial obscurity. In lieu of ...
I recommend always wearing a "covid" mask in public for facial obscurity. In lieu of leaving your phone at home, invest in a travel phone with an international roaming esim not attached to your identity in any way. GrapheneOS + silent.link esim is a great choice. A burner phone paid for in cash using false registration info, activated with VPN, on a public network is another.
Never connect it to your home network. Keep airplane mode on and Bluetooth, NFC, and WiFi off when not in use. Keep the phone in a quality faraday bag until you have to use it. If you need to be reachable while you are out, remember to always turn it on and off at the same random location (such as an intersection) at least 5 miles from your home.
#cybersecgirl
People really don't realize how utterly dependent modern surveillance is on the idea that everybody is carrying a phone — which is always tracked. Their car has a cellular modem in it — which is always tracked. 99% of investigation is one guy and a search box. If you're not low-hanging fruit, you aren't gonna merit the Eye of Sauron of manual, well-resourced, focused team attention—and if you did, you probably planned ahead for it, right? Because it's not a mystery what would get you on Santa's Naughty List.
Anyway, the point is that even in a big city, the phoneless guy in a "covid" mask is going to be invisible to anything less than that exhaustive manual investigation — at least for a few more years. That may go away once they start networking all the cameras and having AI start trying to match up clothing sets moving from camera to camera, butthat capability is hard to hide, so it'll be in the news. And it won't work that well in places with less camera density and, perhaps, for people who wear the most-common outfits (the visual equivalent of a "shared fingerprint").
Remember: Phones are useful, but dangerous. And the people who will still wear covid masks to the beach are helping to normalize facial obscurity—regardless of their intention. Don't be mean to them. Encourage them to wear them everywhere. For passport photos. In police booking photos. At the customs desk. Family portraits! The sky is the limit—let them push the boundaries so that you don't have to.
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2024-05-28 22:44:48Event JSON
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