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An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house" (www.motherjones.com)
submitted 3 days ago by AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Cool...

This one goes out to all the small government, privacy loving, Republicans out there, supposedly hating invasive big brother tactics and representing the values of the American heartland.

Would be much appreciated if you could have a word with your people about this.

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I mean, a proper Faraday cage will block anything unless the US government has figured out how to break the laws of physics...

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago

A proper Faraday cage, a truly excellent one, just the most Faraday of all the cages, is easily defeated by physical attacks such as getting your phone cloned when you get mass arrested and summarily released on OR.

[–] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works -4 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Faraday cage does not prevent gyroscopes and accelerometers from working. Then if you remove it from a faraday cage in the future, it will transmit all that movement

[–] frezik@midwest.social 12 points 2 days ago

Since you're posting this all over the thread, I'll also have to repeat the information that gyro/accelerometers are not capable of doing that. Small measurement errors stack up and throw it completely off.

[–] tamman2000@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Without GPS or tower based error correction any location prediction based on conservation of momentum in the phone will be useless before very long if the phone is moving.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago

Sounds theoretically possible I guess...