During the Great Covid Scare, some restaurants stopped accepting cash payments for health reasons. Whatever the intention, that is a policy that aids and abets an incipient police state. Exaggerate some health threat. Inspire fear in a gullible populace of highly suggestible conformists. Ban cash in the name of public health.
Result? Everyone making payments leaves a paper trail. People can be monitored as to where they go, where they shop, what they eat and drink., what they read. Too many visits to Joe's Real BBQ for paleolithic vittles and your social credit score goes down. Get the picture?
Corollary: Cede control of health care delivery to the government and they can tell you how to live, what to eat, drink, ride. Ride a motorcycle? Dangerous activity! Government has a reason to ban them if they are picking up the tab for health care.
Addendum: Are we a gullible populace of highly suggestible conformists? Well, do you remember all the people walking around in the open air wearing masks? Or people driving alone in their cars with windows up wearing masks?
Where is the independence of mind? Are we Americans or obedient Germans?
CBDC? Up yours, fascist.
Also, don’t run around with your cell phone turned on, either, otherwise your movements are tracked and recorded. And if you want to make really sure that your cell phone can’t tattle, carry it in a Faraday bag.
Faraday shield a good suggestion, Joe. That way no need for hard shut-down of device. Protects it physically as well.
Cadre Dems are conscienceless totalitarian scum.
Here is an expensive bag that got bad reviews: https://www.amazon.com/DefenderShield-Phone-Faraday-Attack-Shield/dp/B09JDC6HH7
Anybody have suggestions?
Actually, I am not sure that a hard shut-down on a smartphone prevents one from being tracked. Can someone straighten me out on this?
Bro Inky?
The gov’t WILL use cell phone data against you.
https://www.businessinsider.com/doj-is-mapping-cell-phone-location-data-from-capitol-rioters-2021-3
This has to be made unconstitutional.
And I just rode my bicycle twice around the headlands here carrying no cellphone or any “id” whatsoever. Naked, as far as the gov’t is concerned, thus invisible.
A revealing discussion about this topic is available on reddit at the link below:
https://www.reddit.com/r/PrivacySecurityOSINT/comments/w1sj2y/is_shutting_my_phone_off_the_same_as_placing_it/
https://www.rogueeconomics.com/inside-wall-street/texas-is-paving-the-way-for-a-new-gold-standard/
Radio repair is done in ‘screen rooms’, i.e. faraday boxes.
Our shop has seven.
They are about 10′ by 13′ (door is in the middle of this side), by 7′ high. Search “faraday rooms for radio repair”.
The walls are penetrated for HVAC and electrical power and lighting.
The penetrations are rf trapped to prevent rf leaking out.
Testing to prove isolation has to be rigorous.
RF is ‘slippery’.
I think Bob Vermillion’s (he is the CEO) company RMV Technology Group LLC might do that sort of testing.
I think you need a sensitive RF voltmeter, perhaps not much more, but your test would have to be well thought out.
Inky
Bro Inky,
Thanks for your comment. As an old electronics man myself, I can pretty much follow you.
But what I want to know is whether I can still be tracked after a hard shut-down.
Also: can you recommend a good Faraday bag for my phone?
Best to you and the wife.
If there is not enough gold for Texas or the USA to get back to sanity, and away from airy-fairy fiat money, well, you can always add silver, and platinum, and, my favorite, iridium to the stockpile. Iridium is the most corrosion-resistant of all known metals:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridium