“Domain, Kingdom, Phy- oh no! Kevin is right there! OK, I should ask before I forget.”

Because they want to make site that journalists and advocacy groups still have ways where 200 randos on Twitter can do the dirty work for them.

Y’all, the last thing the suckers who will buy this want is some Nanny State telling them they can’t buy this.

It’s a stupid fake phone. Let them buy it. Who cares? If not this, the grifters already have 700 other things lined up behind it. Let them pay for our schadenfreude, as they have done so many times before.

As a daily Linux user… Yeah.

Eastern Europe loves the app Viber that Rakuten bought, which has had ads for years.

People LOVE a walled garden of their friends are there, too.

Also, because this was news like 6 months ago and has been posted and reposted here roughly 84 million times.

And they’ll ironically lose the lawsuit about the lies and deception of this, the defense of which will be funded by donations from the idiots that buy this phone and receive messages every hour asking for more money for the legal defense fund.

By “Most Human” clearly they mean the most flawed and greedy.

Well, it’s built to use Ooga, but it’s also set up to be able to handle Booga as well. It depends on the driver set you need to load Fire and Club.

No idea, all I see as options now for Paypal and credit card.

Ooooohhhh… That’s a thing? Let me guess, I have to pay to publish my ChatGPT-authored “research” proving that cats are actually aliens?

Only if you donate. Otherwise bad news, Signal.

As a pacifist, he might simply have not been thinking through optimizing a killing machine in depth, and it was more of a lark of a design.

I’m not a writer of TeleNovelas, so I bet I might not think through every aspect needed to make one awesome either. Doesn’t mean I haven’t written 32 pages of “La Vida Delirante” where 5 women make a pact to leave the circus to marry rich men so they can live comfortable lives, except they picked the guys randomly and no one can commit to anything and are always switching men. But they are pursued across fabulous vacation destinations by La Reina Apestosa, a Romani sorceress attempting to lure the 5 women back so she can sell their souls to the devil in exchange for the love of the lion tamer at the circus.

Was this part of a survey where they get the “survey says” answers on Family Feud?

Is there money in writing crap “research” papers like this?

I would be fine doing this under a pseudonym. But I know UFO researchers really have to hustle a ton. So maybe not?

That’s not what I’m saying.

First off, you, my fellow human, are a fallible creature that can make mistakes. Relying on airplane mode is a huge risk because if you oopsie once, you’re done.

Second, your phone at home is a reasonable alibi. As long as you cover your face fully.

Third, your phone and face are gifts to LE. Do not go bearing gifts.

Using public WiFi is enough to ping a MAC on a snoop-able network device. Let’s recall that no one should be connecting to free public WiFi without a VPN anyway. Plus, every LE agency can check connections from IPs of popular open WiFi spots near a route and see that your gmail or Snap or Twitter were accessed. Also, do you know and trust whoever owns that WiFi? So you need a burner, randomozed changed MAC, and a VPN on the phone just to use that public WiFi.

Open BT or AirDrop are also enough. The Chinese love using AirDrop.

Next, if you get arrested, everything on your phone can and will be used against you if they can get in. Did you take a selfie? Good work collecting evidence against yourself. Plus, that phone is gone for food even if you get released. Why do that to yourself?

As for contractors, that’s how the military industrial complex works. Contractors do the morally grey area stuff and the government uses what’s called third party doctrine to use those capabilities that might not necessarily come up in full during a FOIA request as it would if something was only government based.

Did the Isreali government develop Pegasus spyware? No, NSO Group did. How about which governemt develeoped facial recognition databases used be LE? No government did that. Clearview AI, Amazon at one point, Meta, and Google all did their own. Where does the government get all that data on what you do on your phone? From targeted advertising markets that anyone can access. The government doesn’t make fighter jets, or tanks or guns or uniforms or paper or computers or surveillance equipment. Contractors do.

Then it automatically connects for emergency calls, and ya cooked.

No. Full stop. No.

No device that can or should connect to the internet. At all. SD card camera at most. Leave your phone at home, charging, playing an 8 hour YT playlist to your dog.

Don’t want Clearview AI destroying your life 3 months from now? Cover your full face, arms, and legs. You can and WILL be identified easily from even a partial facial image. Hat, sunglasses, bandana. Guy Fawks mask. You do you, but you have to commit to it. Don’t take anything off until you are sure you’re concealed and not visible from any cameras.

You are trying to casually tempt the second most advanced surveillance state on earth. There is no room for error anymore.

You are not smarter than a well-resourced set of my military grade contractors that sell intel to law enforcement.

No networked devices. At all. This isn’t hard! The entire Civil Rights Movement happened with zero mobile phones. You can do the same. Write important info in a notebook. SD card camera if you must.

But the phone imei is still always yours. If there’s a SIM in there, or it connects to a mobile service, you’re cooked anyway.