I mean, you know how everyone carries a phone these days? If you use your voice, it could be potentially recorded.
So… we could just use sign language. Teach everyone sign language, use that whenever you wanna say something anti-government.
Its much easier to cover up cameras (or move out of sight) than to cover up microphones. And its unlikely people would want to leave their expensive phone in another room out of sight, so teaching everyone sign language seems like a straight-forward option.
Also, bonus: its very helpful for people with hearing problems if everyone knew sign language.
Probably easier to speak elven or high valeryian
That’s the equvalent of using ROT13 for encryption. Doesn’t do anything. They could literally build an automatic program to convert it back to the intelligence agency’s language.
Sign language can literally avoid the data from being picked up microphones, doesn’t even need encryption if they never have any data to work from. (Just remember to either leave the phone in your pocket or place an object over it to cover the camera)
Sign language isn’t just another way of expressing English that can be picked up like learning a different alphabet or a secret code. It’s a full, independent language with its own complete vocabulary, syntax, inflectional system, etc. that takes as long to learn as any other natural language.
It would be great if more people knew it for the sake of communicating with the deaf, but as a means of foiling surveillance, there are many other approaches that would be more effective for less time investment. (Hell, you might as well learn a really obscure spoken language that would be less likely to be recognized or deciphered than ASL.)
It also isn’t a single language. ASL is different than LSF, LSQ, or even LSFB, etc.
Yeah my daughter is studying ASL in college right now and have learned a lot about sign language recently.
Phones have cameras as well as microphones. Also, all public places have cameras. 🤔
Phones are usually in your pocket. If you wanna leave it on a table, just put some random paper on top of it. How do you easily stop sounds from going to your phone? Probably not as easy as just covering up the camera.
This is under the assumption you are at home (or some safe place outside of public view), I mean why are you planning anti-government activities in public lol.
Start a business adding proper sliding contacts micro switches to popular devices. Then transition to selling them preinstalled. Simply cut the power wire to the camera module and microphone. I would love to pay a little more for a device with a physical switch and an option for no screen side camera.
I was thinking the other day, if I decide to replace my battery in my phone, I am going to design a TPU phone case that integrates the rear battery cover and not installing the rear glass bullshit too.
Still, that does not fix everyone else carrying stalkerware.
