Subversive devices

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?

3 Comments

  1. add background noise to your calls, so you can say “I’m stuck at traffic” to your boss while sleeping in your bed.

  2. 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.

  3. 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

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