> I’m not going to carry a tracking device that records where I go all the time, and I’m not going to carry a surveillance device that can be turned on to eavesdrop.
I have a lot of respect for the developer of Emacs. However, Mr. Stallman needs to get out more. There are many places in this world where you can buy a cell phone with a prepaid sim card and no id of any kind. Pay cash.
So do I, but I always preferred Vim myself. ;^p
Like Walmart.
Unless you constantly change your handset and number, they can track a prepaid as easily as a regular phone. Think getting a new phone every day will cut it? No, it is easy as pie to have a software sniffer on people you frequently call and have voice recognition accurately detect your new number as soon as you use it. Most calls go unsecured through IP and can be easily sniffed.
Buying phone cards with “cash” is also getting impossible to do. A great deal of them are activated and send a time stamp to the phone company. All but a few stores now use HD digital surveillance that is often sent through IP. By creatively applying face and iris recognition, the possibilities are endless.
All of the networks, media, devices and software are already available for them. As are the jackbooted thugs. We are always days away from a total police state. All it takes some “event” that will make the sheep and useful idiots give them a green light.