[Cryptography] Help investigate cell phone snooping by police nationwide

[Tom Mitchell]

On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Bill Cox <waywardgeek at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 8:02 AM, John Young <jya at pipeline.com> wrote:
>
>> Coderman wrote:
>>
>>  (or as Snowden demonstrated, put in a fridge to avoid scrutiny and
>>> audio capture the best idea.  non-serial tower associations are an
>>> anomaly alerted and acted upon.)
>>>
>>
>> Is there reliable evidence that putting mobiles in a fridge is any
>> better illusory comsec than putting pillows around the door also
>> comically exhibited to clueless journalists favored by Showman
>> Snowden? Or at least as tall-taled by comical Glenn.
>>
>
> It's called a Faraday cage.  I'd test it right now, but I think someone
> hid my mobile phone in a fridge.
>

Also the cold causes the battery to suffer badly.   Most skiers keep their
phones on a skin side
pocket of their jacket.   The so did the old sourdough with a small pouch
of live starter
hanging around their neck at body temperature.

A tin bread box or a clean paint can (yes clean empty ones can be had).
Those butter cookie tins.. just scratch the varnish exposing metal where
the top and bottom
join.....  Double wall containers with steel wool all around for those
where RF
might leak because a seam or capacitance of parts made an antenna.

Test your phone for odd behavior.... put it in airplane mode and then place
in a shielded container.
In airplane mode the battery drain should be near minimum.   If it is not
then something
might be activating an RF device.   Bluetooth, WiFi, Cell....   Airplane
mode is the near
best mode for DND meetings.  You can see a clock and that is about all.



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