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Offline Gary

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Cellphone Privacy
« on: March 07, 2013, 01:31:58 PM »
This was a news broadcast from 5 / 6 years ago.  Things have not gotten any more private in that time.

The solution offered at the end of the video, no longer works on many modern cellphones.  The battery does not come out.


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Re: Cellphone Privacy
« Reply #1 on: March 07, 2013, 03:18:18 PM »
I've only used a flip phone that allows the battery to be replaced when it wears out.  Removing the battery is the ONLY way the mic and 911E can be disabled.    I don't buy smartphones because the "data plans" are extortionary.   

If you own a smartphone that has a battery which cannot be removed by you and replaced, then create a "Faraday Cage" to surround it and eliminate the radio transmissions without your permission.  Have a steel (not Aluminum) box with a lid which does not have gaps that is big enough to contain your smartphone.  When you want privacy turn the phone off.  Then put it in the steel box and close the lid. No transmissions can enter or leave that box.

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Re: Cellphone Privacy
« Reply #2 on: March 07, 2013, 03:32:38 PM »
I've only used a flip phone that allows the battery to be replaced when it wears out.  Removing the battery is the ONLY way the mic and 911E can be disabled.    I don't buy smartphones because the "data plans" are extortionary.   

If you own a smartphone that has a battery which cannot be removed by you and replaced, then create a "Faraday Cage" to surround it and eliminate the radio transmissions without your permission.  Have a steel (not Aluminum) box with a lid which does not have gaps that is big enough to contain your smartphone.  When you want privacy turn the phone off.  Then put it in the steel box and close the lid. No transmissions can enter or leave that box.




Like an ammo box?

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Re: Cellphone Privacy
« Reply #3 on: March 07, 2013, 10:18:25 PM »
Like an ammo box?

No.
http://youtu.be/RZD95BIrTFM?t=5m

Aluminum foil will work, even on equipment with higher antenna power than a smartphone, but the problem with it is that it is too easy to get cracks or holes in the foil which leak radiation.  And, it is always a good idea to put the phone in a plastic zip lock bag before wrapping it.


A popcorn tin works with some devices but not others, depending on their transmission frequencies:
 

Microwave ovens do not work.  Neither do metal electrical wall boxes.  The reason  is simple.  They have cracks and gaps that allow EMF leaks.

However, while smartphones and walkie-talkie transmissions can be blocked by some methods, EMPs cannot by the same methods.  They are much more powerful than cellphone tower radiation.   And, EMPs can destroy a device even  if it is turned off.  So, here is an EMP protection device, on the cheap:


You can buy EMF and EMP shields from Amazon:  http://tinyurl.com/chk8s2g
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Re: Cellphone Privacy
« Reply #4 on: March 07, 2013, 11:23:22 PM »
The last video, the guy has his pancake mixer in his EMP cage.  That is dedication. 

So the TSA is spending billions of dollars to see inside our walls into our safe storage areas with stealth Regan era projects, to inventory this guys pancake mixer in his faraday cage.  Priceless.   

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Re: Cellphone Privacy
« Reply #5 on: March 08, 2013, 09:52:44 AM »
the guy has his pancake mixer in his EMP cage

Not to scare you, but look up TETRA radiation, and what the government is doing with that.

EMP doesn't concern me because if we get an electromagnetic pulse that destroys alternators in cars and most electronic circuits that can only mean that a 1 Megaton or larger nuclear warhead was detonated somewhere above the center of our country at an  altitude of 20 to 50 miles.  IOW, Nebraska would be right under it and receive the strongest pulse.  That was signal the beginning of a nuclear war.   You and I would probably be dead.  Survivors would be down wind from Denver and the West Coast targets.   South winds would bring up fallout from Kansas City, Dallas and Huston.  Northeast and East winds from Chicago and points East.

Bottom line: very few long term survivors.  It would be Chernobyl on steroids.  Radiation levels so high that environmental disruption would  guarantee life threatening difficulties for all survivors.  We aren't talking about returning to the 1800s.   This would be stone age stuff.  Everything you find to eat, or to make shelter would be radioactive.  You would lack the medicines to treat the resulting radiation sores, which would get infected.  MRSA on steroids.   These are facts that the idiot running NKorea doesn't understand.  He would not be immune from his little war games, even if he hid in a bunker 500 or more feet underground with enough food, water and tapes of John Wayne movies to last him for 10 or 20 years.   When he climbed out he'd find that the radioactive isotopes with half-lives of 10,000 years haven't even begun to loose strength, and they would be everywhere and in everything.   All of his slaves would be dead, and he doesn't have the brains to make toilet paper to wipe his butt.
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