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Posted on 01/22/2014 6:55:01 PM PST by TigerClaws
“Dear subscriber, you are registered as a participant in a mass disturbance.”
That's a text message that thousands of Ukrainian protesters spontaneously received on their cell phones today, as a new law prohibiting public demonstrations went into effect. It was the regime's police force, sending protesters the perfectly dystopian text message to accompany the newly minted, perfectly dystopian legislation. In fact, it's downright Orwellian (and I hate that adjective, and only use it when absolutely necessary, I swear).
But that's what this is: it's technology employed to detect noncompliance, to hone in on dissent. The NY Times reports that the "Ukrainian government used telephone technology to pinpoint the locations of cell phones in use near clashes between riot police officers and protesters early on Tuesday." Near. Using a cell phone near a clash lands you on the regime's hit list.
(Excerpt) Read more at motherboard.vice.com ...
Judge Dredd was unavailable for comment after justice was dealt to those resisting arrest.
An aluminized Mylar bag might make a good cell phone accessory. Batteries aren’t removable from many.
Good idea. I was thinking of my old flip phone. It was easy to access the battery on that phone.
But almost impossible.
Unless you've got the wilderness skills of a Bear Grylls or a Les Stroud, it's damn near impossible to completely unhook from the gubmint matrix.
Ping
Yet you post to Free Republic on a computer which has a unique IP address, that can be traced directly to your street address, and YOU.
It’s nice that they acknowledge that you have properly registered to joint the protest...
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It'll never happen here…
Ok, I can't even type that with a straight face.
Have a brochure I made on interacting with government agents:
Stop, Drop, and Cower
File this as reason #439 not to carry an electronic pacifier.
Love the brochure. Sadly, some of my coworkers would believe everything in there.
If the protesters are even modestly creative, they won’t need cell phones to oganize, act, or whatever. I can also see:
Dissident to Mom: Please take my cell phone with you today to (location 10 km away from the protest.)
Dissident now has “proof” he or she was not at the protest.
Those bags are for static shielding during shipping or storage. Are they proof against remote activation?
Put a phone in the bag, fold the top over, and try calling the phone.
If it doesn’t receive the call, the bag works.
you have been notified now we kill you
It ought to kill RF.
Put your cell phone in one, on, and see if you can call it.
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