People with esims are just gonna assume they aren’t being tracked. 😩
Attention!
Submitted 2 weeks ago by QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz to memes@sopuli.xyz
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Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
TehBamski@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This PSA has the same vibes of the late great Apple Ads 4chan made back in the day.
Exhibit A:
knowyourmeme.com/memes/ipad-spoofing/
Exhibit B:
bigchungus@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
degen@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
Is this what actually got people to microwave their phones? I never saw these and thought it stemmed from fake videos. The design is pretty on point tbh
Speculater@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Or old-school “Household Hacker.”
IratePirate@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Ooooh, that brings back memories! Don’t forget the iPad can be used for scales exploit. That was also hilarious.
bigchungus@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Even without a SIM card you’re not much less trackable. The phone still maintains a connection with the cellular towers for emergency services, sometimes even when it’s fully powered off. The best way to prevent this is to remove the battery.
slazer2au@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
sometimes even when it’s fully powered off
How when there is no power going to the mobile transceiver?
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Because “off” is not really off in most mobile devices, more like a deep hibernate. Conveniently you can also no longer remove the batteries from any modern phone.
tackleberry@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
Well, if you were born in 2013 and later, there is a dude named Edward Snowden who told people about this but they called him names. This is not new. Anonymity on the internet has become a fantasy today.
hydroxycotton@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Also if you existed before 2013, Ed’s revelations are somehow still relevant.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I always leave my phone at home when doing crimes.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
Except thought crimes, you need a faraday cage for those
kautau@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I am genuinely surprised at the amount of people in the comments who don’t realize this is satire
UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Oh most people get it would be my guess, they just prefer commenting on mass surveillance.
I mean we have e-sim now but within the demographics of Lemmy, people know about old sim cards for sure.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Still tracks you when you connect to wifi.
Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 2 weeks ago
SIM cards? what is this, 2014?
probablymissing@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
not every phone has this “esim” black magic witchcraft in it today. i got my phone in 2024, and i’ve got a sim card, the way it should be. esim supporters should be burned at the stake for their heresy!
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i’m kidding, of couse. i don’t support burnings anymore!
Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 2 weeks ago
the joke was this is a picture of what looks like an iphone 6, released in 2014
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Functionally, AFAIK there’s nothing really stopping older devices from being updated to use e-sim. They work just fine for emergency service calls, the little chip doesn’t matter that much to the underlying hardware
possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
shit i just use two physical sim cards so that way i can easily swap between my european number and american number
BladeFederation@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Technically correct…
ozymandias@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
close, but the phone will connect to the towers and track you without a sim card.
(also bluetooth and wifi)
carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
That cut doesn’t actually go through the chip
confusedwiseman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
So what do I do with the eSIM?
kylie_kraft@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
put yourr phone in the microwave on high for 30 seconds, it wipes eSIM
confusedwiseman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Bonus super fast wireless charging!!!
CameronDev@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Drill press
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
This is such a old image
WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
You can tell because there’s only one camera instead do the 3-6 on a modern phone
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
Eventually they will have eight cameras to track you, the Arachnids from Alpha Centauri need eight perspectives for their VRs. They can work just fine off of 2d screens of course but it’s simply not as effective.
snek_boi@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I like how they’re ”already” tracking me. I’m still trying to understand how the meaning changes with and without the quotations, but it certainly feels important or something
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Everything works perfectly fine, and on top of that all the robot spam calls stopped!
lol_idk@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Delete the French localization too
AlexLost@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is deliciously evil
saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This also stops those pesky scam calls!
papalonian@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
🤓 that sim card would still work, the smaller sim cards are the same chip just in a smaller plastic housing, you can cut them to size and some of them (like the one in the photo) come with premade lines as guides
Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio 2 weeks ago
Thatsthejoke.trd
thesohoriots@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“You remove the SIM card and… yes?”
“Can I cook mine?”
“No, you must eat it raw.”
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
No shit. It’s why I plan to make custom EM shielding for my devices, including my ID card…just to break the tracking.
ozymandias@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
tinfoil actually works for this
DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Or just use a Nokia 3310 phone
Psythik@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
SIM cards existed in the 90s, but I get your point.
lurch@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
lol, they can track the IMEI. the phone component still works without the SIM, for example to make emergency calls. that means it is still able to connect to cell towers and you can still triangulate it’s position to some degree.
I’m afraid, you’ll have to cut the phone in half instead. can’t be helped.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
They can track my phone, not me. I don’t need it on me at all times. I almost considered a landline but they cost a fortune so I decided against it.
Reyali@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
US Mobile offers landlines for $10/mo (link). I can’t speak to that service but I’ve been on a cell plan with them for almost a year and my only complaint has been some weirdness on early auto-payments, but once that was sorted out everything was fine. I’ve referred several people who also seem to be happy with the service as well.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Nah. Rip out the antennae assembly. The phone might be a bit complain-y about it (or fail some kind of pre-boot check and not boot)? never done it to find out though.
essell@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s been a few years since I was inside iPhones regularly but back then… All of them had a physical antenna or two which plugged into a board on a little coax connection.
Unplug those, no reception, phone just assumes it’s in a dead zone.
WiFi would still work if enabled. Which probably means they could find you via WiFi even if switched off in the current world