- Large protests are expected across the U.S. on Saturday to express voice discontent with President Trump’s administration.
- Organizers aim to make the protests accessible by holding events in many places, including small towns.
- The protests reflect growing momentum and dissatisfaction with Trump’s policies on immigration, transgender rights, and the firing of federal workers.
If you don’t want to be tracked down afterwards based on your phone’s location, turning it off will suffice.
If you fear to get arrested, you should just leave it at home or somewhere it cannot be found too easily.
You need the phone turned off, and the offline Bluetooth most phones these days broadcast also disabled. The NFC could also passively respond, although that would require more clever engineering to make a directional NFC scanner. ISO 15693 apparently extends the NFC distance to 3 feet.
Tell me why airplane mode isn’t good enough.
Don’t know, but that’s kind of the point. Even “off is off” isn’t entirely true anymore. So I just don’t know what airplane mode exactly does.