Privacy advocates got access to Locate X, a phone tracking tool which multiple U.S. agencies have bought access to, and showed me and other journalists exactly what it was capable of. Tracking a phone from one state to another to an abortion clinic. Multiple places of worship. A school. Following a likely juror to a residence. And all of this tracking is possible without a warrant, and instead just a few clicks of a mouse.

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    burner goes from your house, to abortion clinic, to your office, back to your house

    Hmm, must be someone else, I don’t recognize this number

    -The Government

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        You really think you came up with an airtight solution to device tracking that nobody in the industry has considered on a whim?

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            That was possible over a decade ago.

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            Also to be clear, you suggested that you bring a burner phone and set up call forwarding. That implies a phone that’s on. If you’re carrying a burner phone that’s off, I do have a novel solution, just don’t bring it

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              No that’s not easily possible on every phone. It’s a specifically crafted FakeOff malware, used by the NSA for targeted attacks. This is not something that just randomly gets deployed on every phone, it’s only used against individual targets. Use GrapheneOS to harden your Android device as much as possible, to defend against such malware getting installed in the first place.

              You really think the NSA will get involved to track someone who wants to get an abortion?

              That was possible over a decade ago.

              You know what also existed over a decade ago? Faraday bags. This concept of physics isn’t new.

              Just stop spreading fear and misinformation.