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Under no circumstances use your phone to place or receive phone calls. Never send or receive email & text messages. Do not install any apps. Leave it powered off at all times. Store your phone in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the leopard"

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>Leave it powered off at all times

Powered off, how cute that you think you can actually power off your phone.

>How are iPhones still findable even when turned off >https://www.xda-developers.com/iphone-findable-turned-off/

That article says it’s just a BT beacon chip left on, nothing else in the phone is on.

I'm wondering if airplane mode would disable that too.

That's what they want you to belive!

Security is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

Insofar as modern personal communications are concerned, availability is tyranny. Being unavailable is a psychological shield.

Okay, but now we've given up the pretense that we're discussing security and moved on to... something about human psychology?

See above re. leopard

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