Go Dark Bags Make Your Phone Untrackable
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- Go Dark is a line of Faraday bags designed to block all communications to your phone. This will make your device completely untrackable. If you are a little more paranoid than I am about electronic damage then this bag should offer EMP protection as well.
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One good tip - if you use such measures with your phone, put it into flight mode anyway. Otherwise, the phone might use the battery unnecessary trying to connect to the tower with no avail.
Battery saver mode too. The phone still tries to send data with airplane mode on in some cases moreso.
@@jamescrihfield9620:
I do airplane mode + power down + Faraday cage.
Notifications are on. Love seeing the VSO videos pop up on my phone.
A square foot of alluminum foil is cheaper, need it waterproof too? Ziplock bag
Sup old friend. We just started using these bags at work. So far have had zero issues. Good video
I use them at work as well, not this brand but still Faraday bags.
This type of Faraday bag does work, but its primary practical use has been with law enforcement to prevent remote deletion of data once a device has been taken as evidence.
Consider, ALL applications are blocked until the device is removed from the bag.
Did you see my post lastnight? Haha
Id like a gun sleeve like this to save my optics and lights from emp lol
I would think wrapping it in aluminum foil or copper foil would also disable radio signals to and from the device.
The old school metalized plastic bags used to protect computer components from static electricity work too. Some of the newer anti-static bags do not work because they are not metalized.
Maybe. And people will assume you are also pushing a stolen grocery cart out in the parking lot somewhere. :)
I have a fariday bag. Works very well.
No way. Brilliant
'Acts like a dry bag' or _is_ a dry bag? Because one really helps with making the decision, especially for electronics.
I can confirm it is a drybag
Would be super nice if they didnt brand their bag so everyone around knows you're trying to be digitally invisible...
Langley Outdoors got the dismiss call treatment... Shade thrown. 😂
Glad to see this test tho. Been seeing these promoted but nobody doing T&E like this. Still wish you would've tossed the phone into the bag when Langley was calling.
My smart phone comes with a built in feature which not only prevents it from being tracked, but also reduces power consumption to nothing in the process - the power off button.
/rolls eyes
Seriously, why spend $100+ on this thing when you can just turn your phone off?
I might also add that your phone is going to blaze through its battery inside of one of these as it constantly searches for service.
Off on a smart phone is not really off. Can be remotely turned on without the screen even lighting up.
You don't know much about phones eh? You'll be the one who gets tracked.
Airplane mode. Try it next time to save battery.
I have one of these Faraday bags and have to say it didn't work at all for my cell phone.
A couple months ago a huge alert was sent out. Thinking I could put my cell phone inside of this bag , seal it , and would prevent the signal from getting through. I was wrong.
The signal got thru despite using the bag. Perhaps I just got a bad one?
Too bad the power switch didn't actually turn off your phone!
All this creepware on phones these days for tracking is scary enough but it's ability to go around your power switch is downright alarming.
I figure user removable batteries will be here within 24 months. I heard they will be mandated in Europe before that.
@@Provocateur3 All the old phones had removable batteries. I don't buy their stance that it's cheaper to glue the phone together.
Nobody wants to believe the spyware theories until the first time they notice their tv, phone or computer come on by itself in the middle of the night. After that happens it gets easier to believe something creepy is happening.
@@Provocateur3User removable batteries??? What kind of phone do you have that you can't pop the back panel off and take out the battery??? Or am I missing something here?
@@DeliciousBoi:
Well . . . Going back: Kyocera, Samsung Galaxy S6, and so forth. They were all of the glue-together construction. When the battery swells up, you have to take it in to a repair shop. I'm in USA. Where are you?
@@Provocateur3 Florida. I've never owned a phone where you couldn't remove the battery.
This is awesome.
Do they have a truck size bag
Actually, YES! They make metallicized (sp?) paint. You can DIY a dead spot in your house or garage. Results can be tested with your phone. Lots of info here on YT. Folks that have EMF problems (power lines, electricity meters, etc.) sometimes have to do this.
Aluminum foil, not as fancy but yet effective
A. Jones has been selling these for a while now...
Oh yes. I've had a couple. Detraktor brand. I don't know if they are still around. There are lots of brands & sizes on Amazon.
Do you have an affiliate link for this product?
I don’t unfortunately.
How good would this work for a EMP
That would depend on the EMP you are subjected to. Usually, but there are no guarantees. If you are specifically worried about an EMP, you can always double bag your phone. Or (cheaper,) wrap your phone in foil before bagging it.
The device can still record data and store it for later when it is in range of cell tower. This is far more evil than the tracking. The phone can still track movement with the accelerometer, even if without geolocation it can use movement and sound to collect data on what you did while in the bag. But what matters more is that it is always listening to what you say, how hard you breathe, if you get into a car, enter a store with music playing, etc. The bag won't stop the microphone or CCTV or satellites cameras.
Either buy a google pixel and replace google android with a FOSS android like graphene or don't use a phone. But even with that there are non FOSS components to the APU that allow for glowing backdoors. If you really care about Big Brother then don't carry a phone at all.
+1 for GrapheneOS. I've been rocking it for 2 years now with no issues. You don't have to even give up any convenience if you don't want to. Simply having the ability to deny permissions to Google Play Services without needing super technical knowledge in and of itself makes it worth it.
You can't fully prevent stuff from spying on you with a phone, but you can significantly reduce it if you do just a little work.
So, how big is the buffer for these accellerometers?
@@Provocateur3 what do you mean? All the accelerometer will do is detect direction of motion and the amount of motion. There is no buffer, do you mean frequency rate of the updates?
@@Bagginsess:
As I understand your premise, the accelerator in the phone in the faraday cage can detect change of position by detecting acceleration many times every second. (Right so far?) The phone goes somewhere, say on the crosstown bus. On the other side of town someone takes the phone out of the Faraday bag. If I understand your premise, the phone then reports all this accelerometer data to the spooks. (Yes? No?) Where did the accelerometer store all this data? It is usually called a buffer. So, in an android smartphone, how big is this buffer, if it exists at all?
@@Bagginsess:
Also, accelerometers detect acceleration but definitely not steady movement. That is the nature of the device.
Bro I was just going to order one
About three layers of aluminum foil will do the same.
These are great!! Just depends on the price tho Lol there’s SEVERAL good companies out now, as Wranglerstar has mentioned haha 😂
What if your boss texts you while your phone is in the bag? Do you get the text after you get the phone out of the bag?
Yes that's how cell service works
I just refuse to buy Apple products cause the batteries can't be removed.... save money on the phone and if I'm really worried about being tracked I can just pop the battery out rather than wasting money on a fancy bag.
Or you can just turn it off lol
Go Google what the NSA was reportedly doing in 2013 by the Washington Post. Didn't matter if the phone was on or off.
If you turn your phone off it’s still on. You just can’t use the phone but if you could see inside the phone there is still a tiny bit of power flowing to some stuff and the phone can be tracked. The only way to truly turn off a phone would be removing the battery.
@@zombieshoot4318:
User removable batteries are coming back.