Visitors to U.S. Take Extreme Precautions as #Trump Continues March of #Fascism
The #EuropeanCommission has started issuing #burner #phones and stripped-down #laptops to staff visiting the U.S. over concerns that the treatment of visitors to the country has become a #security risk, according to a new report from the Financial Times.
#privacy #surveillance #burnerphones #TravelAdvice #us #usa
#burnerPhones
»The #EuropeanCommission is issuing #burnerphones and #basiclaptops to some #US-bound staff to avoid the risk of #espionage, a measure traditionally reserved for trips to #China.« https://www.ft.com/content/20d0678a-41b2-468d-ac10-14ce1eae357b?eicker.news #tech #media #news
🚨 The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for trips to places like Russia and China.
#EC #BurnerPhones #US #Espionage
https://www.ft.com/content/20d0678a-41b2-468d-ac10-14ce1eae357b
Via the #FinancialTimes - Apr 14, 2025
The #EuropeanCommission is issuing #BurnerPhones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of #espionage, a measure traditionally reserved for trips to #China.
Commissioners and senior officials travelling to the #IMF and #WorldBank spring meetings next week have been given the new guidance, according to four people familiar with the situation.
https://www.ft.com/content/20d0678a-41b2-468d-ac10-14ce1eae357b
When the #physicists need #burnerphones, that’s when you know #America’s changed | John Naughton https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/29/when-the-physicists-need-burner-phones-thats-when-you-know-americas-changed?CMP=share_btn_url
🤔 Ah yes, when physicists start emulating secret agents with burner phones, it's definitely a sign that America has turned into a strange episode of "Breaking Bad: Nerd Edition". 📱🔬 Because, apparently, complex equations aren't enough drama, they need spy gadgets now too! 😂
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/29/when-the-physicists-need-burner-phones-thats-when-you-know-americas-changed #BreakingBadNerdEdition #SecretAgents #PhysicsDrama #BurnerPhones #SpyGadgets #HackerNews #ngated
When the physicists need burner phones, that's when you know America's changed
#HackerNews #physicists #burnerphones #America #change #news
i need better #android phone/tab with like 20 cores or so
anyone?
also if you want to translate a URL from any lang to English ( read without google) what do you use in phone or #linux
OTOH sometimes I miss #burnerphones
After two weeks at home–which included a highly entertaining baseball game Wednesday in which a hilarious lack of basepath situational awareness led the Nationals to run into a phone number of a double play and yet beat the Yankees anyway–I’m headed across the Atlantic tonight to cover the IFA tech trade show in Berlin. As before, the organizers are covering most of my travel costs and those of an invited group of U.S. journalists and analysts.
Beyond the work below, I also wrote a post Friday for Patreon subscribers detailing the settings I changed on my mother-in-law’s new LG TV to make it easier for her start watching TV and have the set itself be less of a marketing mechanism.
8/26/2024: 3 Lessons From a Hacker Conference That Can Keep You Safe Online, AARP
I thought of this idea too late after covering Black Hat last year to have any hope of pitching it, much less writing it in between a schedule stuffed with both personal and work travel. This year, I remembered to pitch it in advance, got a prompt thumbs-up from my editor, and filed it the week after the conference.
8/29/2024: Cable Providers Top Telecom Rivals for Internet Reliability, PCMag
After Opensignal offered an embargoed copy of this study, I had some questions about its findings that the research firm couldn’t answer until Tuesday evening, resulting in my filing it too late for my editor to get to it until after the embargo had passed. Which nobody at PCMag blinked about, to their credit.
8/29/2024: Brazil’s Supreme Court to Elon Musk: Name a Legal Rep or X Is Banned, PCMag
I wrote a new top for this post Friday after Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court made good on its threat–and not only banned X but directed Apple and Google to block its app from their app stores and imposed a fine of about $8,900 a day for people who used “technological subterfuges” (as in, VPNs) to evade this restriction. Judge Alexandre de Moraes since seems to have relented slightly on those last two measures, but even compared to the impending commercial ban on TikTok they seem extreme in a democracy–not that Elon Musk deserves sympathy for his descent into conspiracy lies about the 2022 election that President Lula da Silva won.
#AARP #Berlin #BlackHat #Brasil #Brazil #broadbandReliability #burnerPhones #cableInternetReliability #ElonMusk #ElonMuskTwitter #IFA #OpenSignal #X
Testimony:
#QAnon Clerk Had Staffer Buy #BurnerPhones
https://www.joemygod.com/2024/08/testimony-qanon-clerk-had-staffer-buy-burner-phones/
https://www.cpr.org/2024/08/06/tina-peters-trial-day-5/
https://twitter.com/Orly_licious/status/1821565132582928827
https://twitter.com/PiperK/status/1821358155491619135
https://twitter.com/KyleClark/status/1491174968935456770
#MAGA #2020election #crime #bigLIE
This afternoon, I have been researching #codependence, #domesticviolence, #substanceabuse, and what constitutes stalking in the state of California. My heart is completely shattered.I have also been looking into #burnerphones.
I can also include #homophobia, #bankruptcy and #borderlinepersonalitydisorder, but I am trying to keep things simple right now.
@neurovagrant @sbourne oh yeah, eff is as always on point. I was looking for a more updated copy of something like this from the intercept (2020), talking about the logistics of picking up a separate burner phone. There was a different writeup I'm remembering talking about measures for buying a phone relatively anonymously (e.g. pay cash, buy from a non-chain gas station x distance from home, wait y days before use, avoid z makes/models). https://theintercept.com/2020/06/15/protest-tech-safety-burner-phone/ #BurnerPhones
What’s the current best practice for folks wanting a #burner phone? Are guides from 2016 era protests still best practices?
Any current zines that discuss what not to do? Web search is useless to find what’s good and what’s trusted.
#protest #opsec #burnerphones #riot
What is the deal with textnow.com -- is it OK? is it a scam?
I am looking to pick up a supplemental phone number, and it looks really cheap, but I want something that will not disappear.
Any other good options for cheap basic phones that can be used for 2FA requirements?
#burner #burnerphones #burnerphone #voip #textnow
#recommendations
A book can be a good read, and sometimes a lifeline.
A librarian in Massachusetts is hiding burner phones in books to help victims of domestic violence
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/14/us/massachusetts-librarian-domestic-violence-victims-cec/index.html
Premier of #Ontario fails to use his government- issued devices...
"Ford's office was scrambling to get him a laptop computer and teach him how to use it."
"The Premier is so used to a vintage 2014 smartphone that he has a stack of them and buys refurbished models from an electronics store in Mississauga for $150 a pop."
SNP investigation: Police ‘hunting for burner phone sim cards’ | The Independent
#SNP
#SNPInvestigation
#BurnerPhones
#SimCards
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/snp-burner-phones-police-sturgeon-b2325190.html
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