Feds Are Tapping Protesters’ Phones. Here’s How To Stop Them.
Use Signal and add a PIN code to your phone’s SIM card to help protect against spying.
Federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department used “a sophisticated cell phone cloning attack—the details of which remain classified—to intercept protesters’ phone communications” in Portland this summer, Ken Klippenstein reported this week in The Nation.
Put aside for the moment that, if the report is true, federal agents conducted sophisticated electronic surveillance against American protesters, an alarming breach of constitutional rights. Do ordinary people have any hope of defending their privacy and freedom of assembly against threats like this?
https://theintercept.com/2020/09/25/surveillance-sim-cloning-protests-protect-phone/
#US #SIM #cloning #surveillance
Use Signal and add a PIN code to your phone’s SIM card to help protect against spying.
Federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department used “a sophisticated cell phone cloning attack—the details of which remain classified—to intercept protesters’ phone communications” in Portland this summer, Ken Klippenstein reported this week in The Nation.
Put aside for the moment that, if the report is true, federal agents conducted sophisticated electronic surveillance against American protesters, an alarming breach of constitutional rights. Do ordinary people have any hope of defending their privacy and freedom of assembly against threats like this?
https://theintercept.com/2020/09/25/surveillance-sim-cloning-protests-protect-phone/
#US #SIM #cloning #surveillance
The Intercept
One Way to Prevent Police From Surveilling Your Phone
You can add a PIN code to your phone’s SIM card in order to prevent police from cloning it.