How To be Anonymous In A Protest | Burner Phone Tutorial

If you want to attend a protest, you have to become unidentifiable. This is how you do it.

Police now have the ability to harass protesters with arrests, threats and coercion all the way back to their homes and offices. Attending a protest with a phone will now tell the police exactly who are you, who you communicate with and where you live.

Your phone has four main radio signals, all of which can compromise your security:
• Cellular radio – is your phone’s most revealing data point. Your SIM card has a unique IMSI number that is broadcast indiscriminately into all directions. The police can capture this number with so called IMSI catchers, find your real phone number and even intercept your calls and SMS texts.
• WiFi – is the second most common data point. Police can setup a rogue hotspot to trick your phone into connecting to it without you noticing and they can start monitoring your traffic in real time.
• Police can also use Bluetooth beacons to catch your phone’s unique identifier. They could also try to exploit known Bluetooth vulnerabilities to attack your device with malicious payload.
• GPS is broadly used for precise locations services, but this one is the safest data point. Your phone is only a receiver of GPS signals and doesn’t transmit any information. Your phone may, however, store GPS coordinates, which may be revealed to the police if they capture and unlock your phone.

Surveillance is the best tool to silence dissent. This is why if you care about your cause, you are going to have to care about protecting the identity of you and your fellow protesters. Your goal must be to become unidentifiable.

What follows is a comprehensive guide to become anonymous in the street. The goal is extreme anonymity and no middle-ground compromises. This guide will be split into two parts – Digital security, and physical security. Make sure to follow and understand every step in both of these parts as they are both equally required to remain anonymous.

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[Kodeb]

The best strategy is to just not bring a phone with you.

[adrianwolff]

In the age of mindless entertainment and government surveillance you are doing the gods work of reducing suffering of the people in need. Thank you from all of us.

[TexasTimelapse]

Algorithm booster. More people need to see this.

[chuck_norris]

Step one: Dont even consider of using an iPhone!

[heinzkitzvelvet]

1. _LEAVE THE PHONE AT HOME!!!_

2. _BRING A CAMERA, NOT A PHONE!!!_

3. Wear Reflectacles glasses, face coverings, or a wear Guy Fawkes mask to thwart facial recognition tech.
4. Don't break the law.

Ez Pz.

[Bullminator]

There is a simple low tech solution:
*when you go to protest, dont take any personal information (credit cards, car keys, personal country card) and only carry cash. (use a bus)
*buy a camera (if possible used from pawn shop) that can use micro sd and record protest with it. Be sure you have a extra on you, and replace it if you get arrested with false one (hide the true one somewhere where police wont look --- heck eat if if you must)
*You can buy baby cell recivers (those that are usualy used to check on babys) to communicate or buy a toy voki toki. You can also use voki tokis to spy on police chat and cordinate a protest.
Walkie talkies cost araund 30 euros and have araund 4km signal range

[fearthehoneybadger]

In the worst case of phone tracking; the Russians are using signals, and images, from phones to identify targets.

[AIC_onyt]

using a google phone for anonymity is the most ironic thing ever XDD
(edit: i switched to graphene )

[MusicToTheEars]

A lot of people will probably need this. Thank you for your amazing videos, THO

[campanelli]

Solution #5, and it's easy, leave your phone at home and go protest.

[juasjuasi]

This is more the essentials for a protest organizer rather than a protest member.

For a regular protester, do the following:

-Get a burner phone
-Don't use a SIM card
-Faraday bag

If you MUST share information on the protest:

-Install Graphene and F-droid
-create a mock twitter account on the tor network mode.
-upload info and photos AFTER the fact, so you get away from the location of the picture
-censure any faces and metadata.

After the event, reset factory your phone and try to do the other hardcore steps on the video if you have the time before another protest.

[mtkoslowski]

This is easily one of my three top security channels. You do great work *HO.*

[_modiX]

The problem on GraphineOS is that it works only for Pixel phones. How can I know that the hardware of Google is not spying on me on a deep level hardware rootkit? Please make a guide for a device that allows me to remove the battery.

[JudgeGideon]

4:09 Definitely leave this laptop at home

[SimplicityForGood]

In Sweden like in Hong Kong the drones the police use now got wireshark installed and use the IMEI code in every phone there is, as well as dumb phones and keep track by the IMEI code where all people go after the protest to find out where you live. In this way the police in Hong Kong did not need to arrest anyone at the protests in November-December 2019 but instead collected the data from whireshark to find out here each protester lived… they then went home in disguise to the students a week later… witnesses of neighbors and relatives show proof the Hong Kong police with order by Beijing killed about 5000 students during this period of the protests by killing them by pretended suicides such as throwing them from their balconies, hanging them, or injecting over doses in them, after this Beijing propaganda stated that a large amount of suicides had happened in Hong Kong due to the Western Craze of what is called democracy and that this illusive freedom created mental health issues and depression among young people in Hong Kong and that this is the official explanation by Beijing that now have taken control of Hong Kong and will do everything to help this poor and misled youth by installing new mainland Chinese mental health care for free to all students…
My girlfriend been working very hard to help in Hong Kong and what I seen is just disgusting! Young girls from 12 years old and up was raped in the corners or the protests by the Hong Kong police during the violent riots, tortured and murdered and left to bleed out if not killed later in their homes.

No one ever talks about what happened in Hong Kong in the West as they only care of themselves! People in America are the most stupid, how the hell could you work for pedophile Biden that is bought by the Communist Chinese party in Beijing and think you voted for a democratic party that care about America?!

Only brainwashed leftist liberals that believe in fascist Globalism can be that dumb that they vote for the Biden Crime family to run their country! You are the ones to blame for all your own misery now!

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Not that one may be in a protest, but it's better to know than to be unaware of possibilities.

[thisislilraskal]

Thanks mate for sharing this information. It'll definitely come in handy for the future.
Sending power and blessings from Melbourne Australia

[EdLrandom]

We really are living in a cyber dystopia

[martinmazanek]

You're doing more than you think for upholding freedom, thank you. More people should watch your content.

[CorporalDirge]

With so many dictatorships on the rise, this is very useful for people wishing to remain free.