If you buy a burner today for a protest any time between tonight and the next 6 months, it’s not a burner.

It is way harder to use a burner phone than you think it is so I recommend just going phoneless to protests.

The feds can track all cell numbers and they can identify prepaids and they can get information on where those prepaids were sold and they can pull the security footage from the shop that sold them.

Call metadata can be used to identify you if your friends don’t have burners.

If you’re gonna use a burner you gotta buy it ahead of time, in a location away from your own, with cash, never register it, never turn it on near your phone or home, never call a friend with it, never log into a social media account with it, etc etc etc.

Moreover, if you buy a burner and mess up, then this becomes evidence against you. It makes it worse.

And if you buy a burner and have a false sense of security, you jeopardize your friends.

I’ve got a busy work week and I quit public activism but maybe I’ll write up an evidence-based protest safety guide this weekend.