(Deliberate?) Misinformation on the 'Best' Phone to Avoid Government Surveillance

There are many websites on the internet that provide people with false or deliberately misleading information.

This also goes for people that are on 'social media' sites, like Facebook, Instagram et al.

In this example an, ex-CIA agent who has a YouTube channel Jason Hanson, claims that the best phone to avoid government surveillance is a satellite phone or 'sat phone'.

How a sat phone works

As the name suggests, a sat phone starts off is communications to a satellite, where this goes to another suitable satellite, then the communications going to an 'Earth Station' where then it goes through a local network to a mobile or a landline.

Now, with regards to the FiveEyes surveillance network, all communications are logged whether it be landline or mobile, where it is also known to the authorities that a particular phone is communicating with a sat phone.

Since there are not as many sat phones as there are mobiles, they are easier to keep tabs on which the authorities do.

Also irrespective of where you are calling from, only the local exchange where the Earth Station connects to has to be monitored, where each sat phone does not need to be infiltrated or targetted.

Also the comments (182) at the time of this post, reflect the sentiment that a sat phone is not the best phone to avoid govenrment surveillance.

Some of which are:

"Bro, WTF!! I'm retired USAF and came from a SIGINT aviation background. Iridium sat phones are the easiest to listen in. They are largely un-encrypted, and even a hobbyist with some open source software and an SDR can listen to them. The USG and other countries have programs that constantly monitor them and can triangulate the signal very easily. LTE burner phones are much easier to slip away in the noise and much harder to decode in a raw RF environment. I guess this guy slept through his SIGINT courses in the CIA"

"Plot twist: This guy is actually working for the govt. And his tips make it way easier for the govt. To track you and tap your calls."

"SAT phones require KYC (Know Your Customer). Also, the easiest way for the government to find you is to monitor the phones of anyone you would call. SAT phones also have IMSI/IMEI numbers, GPS, etc. No phone at all is the way to go."

"A pigeon is one of the most secure methods of communication."

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