Category: Military Use Cases
Building a Faraday Setup That Actually Works
A Faraday bag is the closest thing to a real off switch for a phone’s radios. Wrap a device in the right material and seal it properly, and nothing gets in or out: no cellular, no Wi-Fi, no Bluetooth, no GPS reception. That’s the appeal. The problem is that a lot of homemade Faraday setups,
What Your Phone Actually Broadcasts (RF 101)
Your phone is a radio. Several radios, actually, and most of them are talking far more than you realize, even when the screen is dark and you’re not using it. None of this is sinister by itself, it’s how the device works, but each radio is a different way of being noticed. Here’s a plain-English
Building a Secure Comms Setup for a Small Team
Securing your own phone is one thing. Securing how a small team communicates is a different problem, because the weakest member sets the security of the whole group. A team is only as private as its least careful person, and good individual habits don’t automatically add up to a secure team. Here’s how a small
Airplane Mode Isn’t Enough
Airplane mode feels like an off switch for surveillance. Flip it, and the phone goes quiet. It’s a useful setting, but it was designed to keep radios from interfering with aircraft, not to make you invisible, and treating it as a security boundary will get you in trouble. Here’s what it actually does and what
The Security Pro’s Everyday-Carry Phone Setup
A hardened phone out of the box is a strong foundation, but the people who carry one for a living don’t stop at the defaults. They configure it deliberately and they build habits around it. Here’s a practical everyday-carry setup: the apps, the settings, and the routines that turn a capable device into a hard
The Baseband: The Second Computer in Your Phone
Your phone isn’t one computer. It’s at least two. Alongside the main processor that runs your apps sits a second, largely hidden one called the baseband, the chip that handles all cellular communication. Most people have never heard of it, and that’s part of the problem, because the baseband is one of the least transparent
Phone Security in the Cold, the Heat, and the Field
Most phone security advice assumes a phone living a comfortable life at room temperature. Plenty of people carry one somewhere harsher: a job site in a heatwave, a winter operation at forty below, a remote field posting where the phone is both a lifeline and the only computer for miles. Extreme conditions change how a
Writing Mobile Security SOPs People Actually Follow
An organization can buy the best secure phones and still leak, because security in a group doesn’t come from equipment, it comes from behavior, and behavior comes from procedures people actually follow. The standard operating procedure, the SOP, is how a team turns good intentions into consistent action. The trouble is that most security SOPs
Phone Security for Service Members: OPSEC When the Threat Is Your Own Phone
A service member’s personal phone can broadcast location, routine, and identity to anyone watching, including adversaries who’d love exactly that. A detailed, honest look at mobile OPSEC and the personal-device gap.
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