Scam "Snowden" video on VICE
By MEXICAN ANONYMOUS
There is a scam video done by Snowden on Vice, which proves he is fake. In this video, Snowden "removes parts from a cell phone to make it go dark". YEAH RIGHT. There are so many problems with this video it is off in the realm of Looney Toon hoakery. How about if I name a few, (since I am myself former NSA that will never be put in the spotlight because I am not a tool.
1. Cell phones are all made with the parts mounted on flexible plastic and paper thin multi layer boards that can only be assembled by automated processes. If you think you can use a soldering iron or any other tool in a cell phone to do anything more than repair the headphone jack, (and even then you have to be an ace) you are dreaming, a soldering iron will vaporize the delicate parts in a cell phone on contact. And if you do not heat up the correct parts you will never get them out. Forget a heat gun as well, in practical real life that's a pipe dream, even if you hit the magic temperature where the solder melts without destroying the whole thing, you have limited time to work before the heat kills it all, and no one has the coordination needed to deal with such tiny parts that have so many pins absent having special equipment only a factory would have.
2. Cell phones come from many different manufacturers that use parts from everywhere, they all look different even if they do the same job and most are not marked clearly enough to read. You won't know what you are doing in a random cell phone. That alone makes Snowden B.S. because you have to know what you are dealing with before you can do anything at all.
3. Cell phones all have startup diagnostic routines where they check their parts. Most part failures will cause the cell phone to hang on boot and never start up at all. That alone will make pulling parts out that are important enough to make the phone "go dark" a death sentence for the phone, once you get them out, if you managed to without killing it all, you will notice your phone won't work anymore - it will basically blue screen and the same is true for just pulling connectors loose. All of it will simply hang the phone or render it inoperative.
4. Any parts that are in a cell phone that could possibly cause it to go dark if not present will render the phone inoperative, because parts in cell phones do multiple tasks, and you can't just get the NSA out without getting rid of other things the phone needs to function. And even if you somehow found that magic cell phone that had a part arrangement that made it possible for it to go dark, it would not be able to receive calls while idle and the moment you tried to make a call, you would become visible with pinpoint precision no matter what and the cell towers themselves would report your location. So why even have a cell phone then?
5. Even if you had the schematics and mastered a particular model from a particular year from a particular brand, such work, as Snowden is stating, is outside the realm of even the far above average Joe who can fix anything. If you ever wanted to do what he makes look simple (because it is fake) it will only be done on special work stations with magnified viewing and mechanical hands that take your large movements and turn them into small movements . Those are common in manufacturing, but do you have that type of setup at home? Well, if you won the lottery, perhaps. The most you could ever expect to do at home is replace the screen.
Here is reality: If you want your cell phone to go dark for real, tape it to the train tracks and wait. Snowden's video is a police state scam, specifically intended to make people feel inadequate, and that is why they are spied on. GEE, if I only knew how to do that, I would not be listened to! And HBO is great and the free press is GREAT because they were open and honest and told me some really cool stuff. And THAT WOULD ONLY HAPPEN IN THE GOOD OL' FREE U.S.A., See, they are not so bad after all!
Bottom line: Snowden got on HBO because he is full of *hit. They would never let anyone real on, not in a million years.
By MEXICAN ANONYMOUS
There is a scam video done by Snowden on Vice, which proves he is fake. In this video, Snowden "removes parts from a cell phone to make it go dark". YEAH RIGHT. There are so many problems with this video it is off in the realm of Looney Toon hoakery. How about if I name a few, (since I am myself former NSA that will never be put in the spotlight because I am not a tool.
1. Cell phones are all made with the parts mounted on flexible plastic and paper thin multi layer boards that can only be assembled by automated processes. If you think you can use a soldering iron or any other tool in a cell phone to do anything more than repair the headphone jack, (and even then you have to be an ace) you are dreaming, a soldering iron will vaporize the delicate parts in a cell phone on contact. And if you do not heat up the correct parts you will never get them out. Forget a heat gun as well, in practical real life that's a pipe dream, even if you hit the magic temperature where the solder melts without destroying the whole thing, you have limited time to work before the heat kills it all, and no one has the coordination needed to deal with such tiny parts that have so many pins absent having special equipment only a factory would have.
2. Cell phones come from many different manufacturers that use parts from everywhere, they all look different even if they do the same job and most are not marked clearly enough to read. You won't know what you are doing in a random cell phone. That alone makes Snowden B.S. because you have to know what you are dealing with before you can do anything at all.
3. Cell phones all have startup diagnostic routines where they check their parts. Most part failures will cause the cell phone to hang on boot and never start up at all. That alone will make pulling parts out that are important enough to make the phone "go dark" a death sentence for the phone, once you get them out, if you managed to without killing it all, you will notice your phone won't work anymore - it will basically blue screen and the same is true for just pulling connectors loose. All of it will simply hang the phone or render it inoperative.
4. Any parts that are in a cell phone that could possibly cause it to go dark if not present will render the phone inoperative, because parts in cell phones do multiple tasks, and you can't just get the NSA out without getting rid of other things the phone needs to function. And even if you somehow found that magic cell phone that had a part arrangement that made it possible for it to go dark, it would not be able to receive calls while idle and the moment you tried to make a call, you would become visible with pinpoint precision no matter what and the cell towers themselves would report your location. So why even have a cell phone then?
5. Even if you had the schematics and mastered a particular model from a particular year from a particular brand, such work, as Snowden is stating, is outside the realm of even the far above average Joe who can fix anything. If you ever wanted to do what he makes look simple (because it is fake) it will only be done on special work stations with magnified viewing and mechanical hands that take your large movements and turn them into small movements . Those are common in manufacturing, but do you have that type of setup at home? Well, if you won the lottery, perhaps. The most you could ever expect to do at home is replace the screen.
Here is reality: If you want your cell phone to go dark for real, tape it to the train tracks and wait. Snowden's video is a police state scam, specifically intended to make people feel inadequate, and that is why they are spied on. GEE, if I only knew how to do that, I would not be listened to! And HBO is great and the free press is GREAT because they were open and honest and told me some really cool stuff. And THAT WOULD ONLY HAPPEN IN THE GOOD OL' FREE U.S.A., See, they are not so bad after all!
Bottom line: Snowden got on HBO because he is full of *hit. They would never let anyone real on, not in a million years.