@angiebaby If you are concerned that your local police are using Stingrays at a protest, may I interest you in Rayhunter? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-open-source-tool-eff-detect-cellular-spying

There is no one-size-fits-all solution for digital safety at protests. You need to decide in advance what your goals are, what is important for you to protect, and what is likely to happen to you, and threat model accordingly.

But if it is important to you to maintain your anonymity at a protest, consider leaving your phone at home, or at least turning it on/off only once you are well out of the neighborhood.

There are other reasons you might want to take a cheap/disposable/burner phone to a protest, such as making sure that if you are arrested, the police don't seize/break/confiscate your main phone.

If you don't want ICE to know you were at a protest, taking a burner phone is not going to help you stay anonymous if you go home afterwards. https://www.404media.co/inside-ices-tool-to-monitor-phones-in-entire-neighborhoods/

Ten years ago, if someone had told me that tech policy bloggers would be calling for ICE to be abolished, I would have thought it very unlikely.

"Abolish ICE" is an increasingly mainstream and extremely correct position.

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/08/abolish-ice-before-they-kill-again-impeach-trump-noem-before-they-incite-more-murder/

All that the Turing Test proves is that human are much, much stupider than Alan Turing ever suspected.

This year, for my mental health, I'm going to practice just letting people be wrong on the internet.

If you happen to be looking for bad redactions in a large set of data files today for some reason, there's an open source tool for that.

https://github.com/freelawproject/x-ray