i was ALAB

Assigned lame at birth

Govts and corpos will use bluetooth and wifi mac addresses to ID and track people. luckily more and more devices are shipped with wifi mac randomization.

there’s only two ways you are preventing carrier/google/apple signals coming out of a phone and giving yourself away:

1. its something like a pinephone that has no google/apple services running and you have a physical toggle to turn off bluetooth, wifi, data

2. a faraday bag