That's what they do to the people that figure things out. They discredit them so other people will not listen to them. It's the ones that go full tilt with lining the walls of their houses to be Faraday cages that make it all fringy cringy the rationally paranoid folks get lumped in with.
Well its always funny to observe politicians/other VIPs use similar technologies to the most "loopy" prepper when they need to. Like actual faraday/signal jamming tents during negotiations or similar.
tbf, when the UK introduced a text to notify people of missing children ,some people(including relatives) were complaining on facebook that it could be used by the UK government to track everyone.
As if their government couldn't just track the smartphone or them via social media already.
The cognitive dissonance of thinking that apps are needed to track someone with a phone vs just being able to track your phone directly is very telling. Even before smart phones with apps, the tracking was there as a required feature to make mobile work. Granted, the number of people that spend any cycles thinking about how mobile signals work probably rounds to 0. It takes someone really dialed in to the details to come up interesting bolt on things to an existing system like tracking people with a mobile device just by looking at the logs. Same thing with looking at "just the metadata". While it may be obvious to those dialed in, to those oblivious it sounds crazy.
I just wish there was a phone service where it cost a lot of money to make my phone ring — if a legitimate phonecall then I can choose to refund it (whether on-phone or in-person).
Spammers have ruined the free access modern US phone/text allows. So I am one of those minorities not carrying a phone daily.
