We were having a meeting and started joking about the way some folks use their phones in subversive or deviant ways.
A neat subversive device would make it easy to SMS under your clothes or have a button that makes your phone ring to fake a call.
Can you think of other devices that could be made to support subversive or covert activity?
add background noise to your calls, so you can say “I’m stuck at traffic” to your boss while sleeping in your bed.
I did it the other day. I had my little headphones on and “appeared” to be using my “handheld” to listen to music as I bipbopped down the street, but I had the camera on and was taking photos. I got a good closeup of two fellows sitting in front of Burger King on Grafton Street eating their burgers.
An Emergency Connection
I was reading Charlie’s blog post on subversive devices and thought hard about what he was talking about. Usually when I do that my mind ends up going into a totally different direction, but I came up with something that