FYI: How Can I Protect My Cell Phone Data Records From Law Enforcement Subpoenas?

If you are fearful of data on your cell phone being found out, then you must be personally ready at a moments notice to destroy your own phone completely. It is lawful for you to destroy your own property and not to incriminate yourself too.

Of course, this will not help you, if the athorities have been listening to your conversations, coping your data already remotely and have all you phone company calling and data records on file. In this case, you maybe already screwed. Good luck! ;)

There are those that may say, only those who are doing illegal activities should be fearful. But from a remote location, it is up to a government agency to decide if you are doing anything illegal and NSA data collection agency does have the legal right to monitor communications with or without a warrant with the current anti terrorist laws on file.

It seems now, everyone is under the microscope of judgement.

FYI: If you read the article of what the NSA data base is capable of accessing in communication, breaking encryption keys is easy.

www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/

I am really surprise how much I keep repeating this link and it get no attention from readers and PoPSCI.
This NSA data base communication monitoring center is major technology with extremely fast super computers too.

Well, just in case you think this all fail safe way to protect your communications then I won't mention the new software that can find your face in video taken from cameras almost everywhere in every major city, in just a few seconds. So, if you thought that hiding your phone location would do the trick, it just makes it slightly more inconvenient for them to find you.

If you thought that putting on a mask protected your face then you didn't know about infrared heat maps of your face that are infallible.

If you went through a toll road then they have your license plate. Don't forget about linkedIn, facebook and all your other social networking data either.

Basically, don't break the law. If they really wanted too, they could also take your arrival times to destinations and figure out your average speed allowing them to write you tickets for speeding in every state/county you crossed.

Don't be scared... you did to yourselves. Now go watch your mindless reality TV shows, surf the net on your crack devices and make yourselves basically self indulged, apathetic freaks that care about nothing important. Live, consume, die. Don't worry about making the world a better place or anything.

"Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth. There is no spoon."

I am upet at this article...I don't mention the easiest way to avoid the authorities from getting your cell info.

Stop using it, seriously, stop using the cell phone and they can't track you, they can't get you data and texts. How hard is that?

On a lighter note, I just saved money on my car insurance!

"Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth. There is no spoon."

State Troopers can park they car and identify cars as they pass by. Traffic cams at intersections can identify and track you car. Your cell phone with GPS obvivously tracks you and you dumb phone can be trianglated and track you too via cell phone towers. You home computer IP and Mac address in your NIC identifies and tacks you.

Everytime you make a transaction via you bank card or credit card, you are being recorded and traced.

You car computer, keeps a data base of your driving habits. Prior to 9/11 all communications incoming and outgoing from the USA were electroncially monitored, but with developments of technology, software all communications of the world are being monitored.

If you cell phone is power if, this is only a led, light indication it is off. It still can be on and listening to the rooms conversations, without your knowledge. Do you leave you camera plugged into you home computer or is the camera built into your laptop? Just because the light to those things shows off, does not mean it is off. Many articles have already been written, about how people remotely watch other people via their own laptop cameras.

Pretty much all modern faxs and copiers use hard drives to keep copy of what you scan and if you this unit is attach to a network and internet, yes it can be hack and the copies transfered else where.

Nice you home is secure, because you pay for electronic monitoring security system. Just be aware, big brother government will make good use of it too, to monitor you.

Ok, you open up your computer and you look at your file, nice. Just to let you know, you only see what is allowed for you to see. You do not see what is hidden in your computer and you will never attempt to seach for the thing you are not aware of in the first place, there are hidden folder, files and hidden programs opperating without your knowledge or consent.

It nice to have a wonderful digital stero system, attach to you digital flat screen tv, attach to you wireless internet. FYI, speakers can also be microphones and listen too and they sound can be transfer over the internet easily.

I find it apalling that any of this is even necessary. That fact the the gov't that we elect can sit there and spy on us just drives me crazy. If there is a verifiable need to "spy" on a person then go to a judge, get a warrant and press on, but these tower dumps are obsurd! How can they legaly justify these? This is just another example of how the gov't is slowly chipping away at our rights and liberties.

Since now ok to fly drones across the USA, remember a drone can also be helicopter or anything else remote controlled.

Now add the fact, a drone can carry a listen device or a laser listen device. The laser can shine a beam on a window and listen to conversations in a room. It can also hear clicks on a computer keyboard and with good software produces the keys of the typist (logins-passwords-words and conversations), prior to it being decrypted and sent over the internet.

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caradoc01 Did you not read the "fail-safe" bit at the end?

Also I went to download the RedPhone, but it seems to be gone...?

I just assume that the government knows anything they want to. If they wanted they could come arrest me for every illegal thing I have ever done but then they would arrest millions of people. Just don't do anything "too" illegal and they won't/can't care about it.

I also would love for some authority to knock on my door and accuse me of doing something because I sent out a text saying I did it.

@Tatersalad
You would like to think that we elect our representatives, but it's completely run by money and motives. The government is broken and all it accomplishes is covering up it's own tracks.

I have one. Stop mindlessly voting based on a political party you just KNOW is less bad than that other evil one. Based on a couple of worthless talking points.

Bush passed patriot act which I hated, (interestingly was democrat vice president Joe Biden's original law) dems were up in arms how dare they. Then obama their guy gets in and expands the patriot act to spy on the american people to attack us more than the people trying to blow us up. But since its their guy the dems quickly shut up and started cheering him instead, and since the repubs originally passed it they don't say much either.

Like magic a police state and all it takes is blindly supporting your political party. Rather than the person who really is the lesser of two evils. If we start voting intelligently we might even end up with better candidates, that would be nice. Look at the choices we've had obama yuck, romney yuck, obama double yuck, mccain yuck, bush kerry bush gore yuckarama. In this election romney is the lesser of two evils, worst case scenario is he's as bad as obama / bush best case he's better at least there's a chance for improvement. He's the better option this time.

Mycellium, the change you want is nothing short of a complete firing of all current government. That kind of talk, of course, is considered treason or anarchy. What we need is more of this nonsense politics. More scandals, more corruption. Only then will Americans and humans in general begin to vote for principals, from whoever demonstrates them. Freedom is nothing short of an illusion. You are free to live within the parameters of your elected governments laws. Our constitution is a slow moving joke now that is bogged down by the the many laws that dictate the true freedoms of a person. Foreign policy is based on the personal defense of our country and our allies, NOT on humanity and democracy.

Our government does these things to protect our civlization from the single factions and elements that represent the sickness of our growing population. It is the single warhead they fear. It is the highschool psycho that opens fire on his classmates that we need to know about. They do nothing to accept responsibility for these things and even if they did what could they do? We are too many and unfortunately these things are needed. They are abused but you must be able to count all the sheep.

It is unfortunately a nec. evil. Don't be appalled by it. Be saddened that our humanity has degraded to the point that its nec.

I would feel less safe if they weren't watching. As for their improper use of it, that does stop the inventors great humanity changing idea or, steals the patent or stifles the good message... that is where we should also be watching. Remember that you can have the same technology they do. Part of the big mindf**k is that your brain is not capable of great things without being taught. They dont want you to know that the quantum computer sitting on your shoulders is capable of nearly anything. Be a penguin and don't show your tiger stripes until youre ready for the spotlight! Good change is always possible. :)

"Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth. There is no spoon."

Our dear USA govenment is simuliar to a person with a narcissistic personality disorder. They feel they are correct in all their decisions and ingore all their mistakes. They are unstoppable in managing money, when it comes to spending it on themselves. They glorify and exagerate all their accomplishments. They are only nice to others, if it benefits themselves and to the root of it all is insecurity, which is why the government is paranoid now of ALL USA citizens and ALL people of the world and feel justified in monitoring their communications.

I feel the USA budget system is broken and busted, beyong repair. The government can not make unselfish intelligent beneficial decisons for the public anymore. Social security and medicare has been declared dead in 10 to 20 years. It all just makes me feel depressed and well "f#ck" for the future. It is a scary kind of depression.

Oh then add the distance of the 1% rich is so well above and beyond the other 99% working folk and continue to own everything and make profit, while the rest of us just struggle along in life.

The world populations is out of control. World recources are getting less and less and the world human population is over whelming planet Earth.

I think I will just go home and love my family more and try to be nice to all the other people around me too!!!!! I am not going to be apart of this madness, nope. If the sh#t for the world hits the fan, I want to live and die a decent man and Christian, despite what ever the world brings.

it's gotten worse, in st. Louis missouri they've been conducting martial law training in the streets of the bloody city. leaked reports said that the police were only told that the dirt would hit the fan in September - October. worse yet is that Obama has recently pushed in laws and regulations that allow him to invoke martial law without consent of congress, this would be a suspension of the electoral process as well as civil liberties. the only fail safe that kept the government from using it to suppress our people was Congress itself holding the only right to declare it. in my book this is grounds for a civil bloody war, this is not cool.

this article has become extremely useful though, i've stopped carrying a cellphone personally but a time is coming very quickly when we'll be ditching them in the street so that they can't track us.

to mars or bust!

If you wish to temporarily turn off the ability to track you and listen to your conversations, just remove the battery from your cell phone, when you not using it.
Good day! ;)

D13 and all, it's not treason and it's not anarchy to overthrow the government and replace it with something we think is better. That's a constitutional right of all Americans. The trick is getting it to happen before your movement is usurped by someone else with bad intent. The other half of the trick is actually coming up with a better system. Everyone complaints about the weather/government, but nobody ever does anything about it.

To haywall's comment, anonymity is your only real defense. Don't be too important or too rich or too poor or too opinionated or too anything else. That's what focuses their attention on you. Otherwise, you're just a nameless face in a nameless crowd. That's me!

Chuck

The most important tool you own is the 2 1/2 pounds greasy jello between your ears. Use it and don't whine about something you lost years ago Privacy does not exist anymore and until this civilization crumbles to dust you wont have privacy as our grand fathers had

So after reading the article and comments I have to say the security is good for kipping out local snoops but what you really need is mega money and connections because if the government decides to take a notice of you, your SOL.

When in doubt leave the phone home. Don't text sensitive stuff and keep your conversation to vague innuendoes. Brave new world we are moving into. Keep your wits about you.

Shoosh...... they are listening....

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See life in all its beautiful colors, and
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Rest assured that any data retrieval by big, nosy prying government brothers is only circumstantial. Why? Because just because it's your device doesn't mean all the data received was your doing. There are many hackers out there and that would be to your benefit. Also, you would have a case saying that you lost your phone/computer, and in the time it took to stop anyone from using it, someone used up a lot of your data, and you can argue that it has happened to you many times.

So, it will not be easy to prove. Also, be clever. Confuse, distort, throw people off by using different names, etc.......

In other words, be your own security.

I wonder if this is why some of the better phones have batteries that can not be removed? I just assume that everything I say or text is recorded somewhere, a computer checks for key words or .... If anything is unusual a real person takes a look. In the 1950's the British figured out how to tap a phone that was not plugged in. ( they used microwave reflected off the diaphragm in the headset) I wonder how far the spy game has come. My guess is VERY far. FYI all antennas with power on them are broadcasting.