There’s a difference between “none of my personal shit on it” and a full on ghost phone.
The first is worth doing.
If you get arrested, they are GOING to identify you before you leave detention. Being fully ghosted and keeping your mouth shut will just keep you in detention at minimum for the hours allowed to them, and if they can pin you with some fake crime, even longer. If arrested, you will not escape them without some level of identification.
Layer one: “front line”: folks should be acting on passive listen/pushed information from folks far back that will not get kettled or trapped. Media they collect should be Livestreamed for safe storage… But they should be focused on non violent protest, emit the protest message and find/eject bad actors. Equipment should be “burner” quality, wiped and purpose setup with the expectation of seizure.
Layer 2: “observe, document, report”: folks should be using encrypted apps to communicate, and should intend to not be arrested, and to collect as much quality content as possible. These folks should be ready to be arrested, but avoid as possible.
Layer 3: “coordinate”: these folks should be digesting all possible data about risks, police activity, lawful orders, movements, etc. They should be feeding information about proper actions. They should use encrypted tools but plan to avoid arrest.
This is all hypothetical.
In the workplace, when you grow up (I’m not cutting you down I mean literally when you are older) you will be issued a work machine packed to the gills with network monitoring software.
Rule number one of being a saavy modern tech employee:
Don’t do shit but work on your work laptop. I plug it in to an Ethernet connection, disable Bluetooth and wifi, do my job, and have the rest of my life on other devices.
A second sub-part of this is that when you are on company grounds, never connect your phone to the wifi
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