I always leave my phone at home when doing crimes.
Except thought crimes, you need a faraday cage for those
Well, if you were born in 2013 and later, there is a dude named Edward Snowden who told people about this but they called him names. This is not new. Anonymity on the internet has become a fantasy today.
Also if you existed before 2013, Ed’s revelations are somehow still relevant.
This is such a old image
You can tell because there’s only one camera instead do the 3-6 on a modern phone
Eventually they will have eight cameras to track you, the Arachnids from Alpha Centauri need eight perspectives for their VRs. They can work just fine off of 2d screens of course but it’s simply not as effective.
Technically correct…
close, but the phone will connect to the towers and track you without a sim card.
(also bluetooth and wifi)
I am genuinely surprised at the amount of people in the comments who don’t realize this is satire
Oh most people get it would be my guess, they just prefer commenting on mass surveillance.
I mean we have e-sim now but within the demographics of Lemmy, people know about old sim cards for sure.
That cut doesn’t actually go through the chip
This does…nt kill the crab.
Still tracks you when you connect to wifi.
Everything works perfectly fine, and on top of that all the robot spam calls stopped!
Delete the French localization too
No shit. It’s why I plan to make custom EM shielding for my devices, including my ID card…just to break the tracking.
tinfoil actually works for this
This is deliciously evil
This also stops those pesky scam calls!
🤓 that sim card would still work, the smaller sim cards are the same chip just in a smaller plastic housing, you can cut them to size and some of them (like the one in the photo) come with premade lines as guides
Thatsthejoke.trd
Or just use a Nokia 3310 phone
SIM cards existed in the 90s, but I get your point.
lol, they can track the IMEI. the phone component still works without the SIM, for example to make emergency calls. that means it is still able to connect to cell towers and you can still triangulate it’s position to some degree.
I’m afraid, you’ll have to cut the phone in half instead. can’t be helped.
They can track my phone, not me. I don’t need it on me at all times. I almost considered a landline but they cost a fortune so I decided against it.
US Mobile offers landlines for $10/mo (link). I can’t speak to that service but I’ve been on a cell plan with them for almost a year and my only complaint has been some weirdness on early auto-payments, but once that was sorted out everything was fine. I’ve referred several people who also seem to be happy with the service as well.
Looks Cheaper than any option I saw here in the UK, but also way more expensive than just using a mobile phone.
$10/month more expensive than just using a mobile phone?
Well the mobile phone isn’t completely free, but its less than £10/month.
Ok, if you say so. Can I just cut the camera out, and still use that?
You can buy pre-cut cameras at the camera shop. They tend to come with a screen and modular lenses.
Yeah, but I already spent my allowance on this one. :-(
Sell phone, acquire camera.
Yes, yes, it IS a sellphone.
Nah. Rip out the antennae assembly. The phone might be a bit complain-y about it (or fail some kind of pre-boot check and not boot)? never done it to find out though.
It’s been a few years since I was inside iPhones regularly but back then… All of them had a physical antenna or two which plugged into a board on a little coax connection.
Unplug those, no reception, phone just assumes it’s in a dead zone.
WiFi would still work if enabled. Which probably means they could find you via WiFi even if switched off in the current world
Cellular typically uses a separate antenna than wifi, on a smartphone i imagine they’re directly on the wireless chip instead of a daughter-board? Laptops and bigger stuff usually routes the antenna wires to the back of the lid, behind the screen, im more used to that
