I am heavily studying Mobile Networks. Ofono is the module that I run to diagnose and do forensic research. Thank you, Rob, I appreciate that topic!

Respect Braxman, Less of us getting Zucked cause of you!

Great video Rob! Aced it! I love the wealth of useful information provided to us. Thank you for an amazing and educational video! Have a wonderful week!

Excellent clarification of the phone identification when using a network. Thank you.

WE SHOULD ALL BUY DE GOOGLED PHONES FROM ROB. HE'S BASICALLY EDUCATED US WITH VALUABLE INFO THAT WE'D NEVER BE ABLE TO GET ELSEWHERE. ROB'S CHANNEL IS A TREASURE TROVE OF INFORMATION THAT SHOULD BE PRESERVED FOR THE AGES.

@4dxl

5 ай бұрын

NO NEED TO SHOUT THO

I am planning on getting all his products eventually. ❤ It helps to hear the Info again. I am starting to write down questions

Privacy online does not exist. If you want privacy, you need to buy a burner phone, but then you may not get all the things you(not you personally Rob) desire. If you want to use gps in your car or on your smart phone, you cannot have privacy. I you want to shop online, you cannot have privacy. And so on and so forth.

@phr3ui559

6 ай бұрын

ok

@rocksolidhope

6 ай бұрын

You must be fairly new to Rob's content. Yes, online privacy does exist. It just requires knowledge, time, effort and some money and some sacrifices. Burner phones aren't what Rob recommends; He recommends de-googled phones. But anyways, if you don't think online privacy exists don't take my word for it - read Extreme Privacy from michael bazzell. Or if you want a more user-friendly book, read Beginner's Introduction to Privacy from naomi brockwell. This one only costs 5 bucks.

@kunka592

6 ай бұрын

GPS doesn't require any outgoing signals AFAIK, so I don't think that part is correct.

@louisfifteen

6 ай бұрын

@@kunka592 Oh, so can you explain how a gps signal finds your exact location?

@dm-zx7xb

6 ай бұрын

Very easily. A GPS (sometimes referred to as a GPS receiver) is a receiver. Satellites broadcast their signals and your GPS receives them (or doesn't) and calculates your location. Remember the old TomToms or Garmin's? They do not emit outgoing signals. You can have GPS and remain anonymous. Your biggest giveaway would be roadside cameras recording your car tag and logging the info in a database.

I love these kind of detailed information videos. One thing that I've always wondered since I've heard you say it many times is why is cell tower triangulation so imprecise, to one half mile?

@robbraxmantech

6 ай бұрын

The tower signal strength is known to your phone but not necessarily by the tower. The carrier records which tower you connected to and which towers saw your signal. And signal strength is affected by where you are (indoors vs outdoors). There are not many towers per square mile. In contrast, Wifi triangulation is supported by thousands and thousands of Wifi access points. In a typical city, there could be a hundred in a short range.

@alal792

6 ай бұрын

@@robbraxmantech Super astute and knowledge able as usual. Yet you DO miss one important caveat. If a person is walking around with WIFI turned on (3-6g) 24/7 close to their body like all the other "normies" are doing, then it is pretty likely they are going to electro smog themselves to death/cancer well before the corporations decide to steal all their important information/secrets. So, kind of a double whammy with the TWO-sided sword of tech. Of course, MOST of those normies also trust BIGBIZ to be honest with them about dangers such tech can present. Understand very well how much they do their best to try and hide their mad dash for profits while they allow health of the population to fall by the wayside.

@alal792

6 ай бұрын

probably should also add.bigbiz, big pharma etc. one mostly deals in chemical smog, and the other electro...only TWO ways that cancer can EVER form. Actually, I just thought about that statement, both of them deal in both types of pollution. They also GIVE SPIN stories to try and hide their complicity...yet people sure do luv luv luv those mass media news anchor reading them that script FOR the cash salary they make. I guess some people find lies comforting...highly likely the greedier scummy types, yet still...just thought I would remind of some basics here.

@JaySpoose

6 ай бұрын

@@robbraxmantechHi Rob, thanks for the tremendous job your doing. Can you PLEASE PLEASE do a video on'How safe is using the Goolge Chrome web browser app on iphones when using FaceTime Create Link feature', is the person that your facetiming safe when their using the Chrome app, and what things should be turned on and off using Google Chrome. Thanks,

@user-ey1vc5qu6k

5 ай бұрын

Maybe because it's old tech.But I saw Rob mention that 5G will be able to pinpoint you to inches.

It has been my practice (in my own country), whenever I have lost a mobile phone or had one stolen, to confirm to my carrier to place a block/stop on the IMEI's as well as the SIM card. I want the finder/thief not to be able to use the handset as a phone - & blocking/stopping the IMEI's as well will usually do this. It will render the handset non-functional as a phone, so that it will only really be good to dismantle & use for spare parts. I once lost an expensive phone handset which was never recovered - so when my carrier asked me if I wanted to stop/block the IMEI's, I naturally said yes. The block/stop on the IMEI's was effective, not only with the carrier, but also nation-wide with all carriers in the country, & also as I understood it at the time, internationally, through the CEIR as well.

In another video you mentioned that your phone when turned on initially sends out an identifier called a "k1 identifier" I think it was called. What is the relation between this and the IMSI?

@linsqopiring6816

6 ай бұрын

So this question is answered at 12:57, thanks.

@kelviwsonk.santana2445

6 ай бұрын

​@@linsqopiring6816Thank you *!*

Greeting Rob peace be upon you. Your looking better, helpful is your information concerning cell phones, Im listening and learning on this tech system of cellular phone. James in America Chicago. 👍☺

Thanks for the educational info

its too bad the cell modem manufactures could not build a modem that generates a random uuid/guid at runtime and send it to the cell tower instead of a imei. If the random uuid/guid is already registered (hardly unlikely) then send back a token saying is is already registered and regenerate a new one and send it again. concerning the cellular service then all they need to do is provide phone card numbers that are independent of any identifier and you send that to the cellular tower as a verified. encryption will be required. It can be done but because the users refuse to demand this they government and corporations get away with it. At the end of the day it can be done if they want it.

Thanks for the information. So although most of these IMSI catchers are state sponsored for gathering evidence and building cases, I am curious about these homemade IMSI catchers. So there is a low threat my neighbors or even my company could be a man in the middle, picking up my information? Not just listening to calls, but on active catching, they could be picking up your SMS, emails and web traffic? And if so, is there a viable way to detect these catchers? From what I read there is an Android version being developed, but there are less reliable versions on the Google Play store that only work unreliablbly on unlocked unrooted phones?

@OH2023-cj9if

6 ай бұрын

The ones shown on KZread are a waste of time. They log details and nothing else.

@OH2023-cj9if

6 ай бұрын

I detected an IMSI Catchers in my road. I used a program by nuts4net or something similar, it showed the cell ID. If you get a lot of different ones that are unknown, it shows ! I think the program was NetMonitor. They also had trackers in it to get info from the phone.

Thanks for your video. Very helpful. Do you know what's the impact of leaking EID and IMEI2 codes?

If I'm running a de-Googled OS (like LineageOS or /e) and I install GApps, will the Gapps have access to the IMEI or does the underlying OS still prevent GApps from retrieving it?

on the old Nokia is was very easy to change IMEI and other values in the phone, also "Netmon" to lock in a choosen cell of the network. (no triangulation possible) what we miss today. So if someone still has his nokia 5xxx 6xxx 7xxx from the 90s, keep it!

Just curious…what do you think/know about services such as incogni? Or other data removal services.

Love the video as always Rob. Is there a Brax 3 phone in the works?

@robbraxmantech

6 ай бұрын

In 2024

If you live in los Angeles, you're already being tracked. Fusion center is in Norwalk CA

What do you do about 2fa, in general I'm required to use authentication software and, specifically, I've chosen Authy. Is your phone compatible w/ Authy?

Im going to get one of your phones. Ty. Hate google!!!

Whats a way to add a cabled firewall to a phone to see the traffic?

So turning off your phone is as good as removing the Sim card? How about Airplane mode? Thank you for the wealth of information!

@robbraxmantech

6 ай бұрын

NO ZUCKING AIRPLANE MODE! And if it's an iPhone, turning it off will zuck you anyway!

Can you make a video discussing the best phones on the market for those who can't achieve de-googled?

@robbraxmantech

6 ай бұрын

There is no such thing. De-Googled or bust. Worst is iPhone

Have you ever reviewed Mullvad VPNs and how they compare to your VPNs?

It would be nice to have alternatives in Canada. We lack the ability or competitors that seem to be in the US. At least that is what I have observed. I purchased a simple flip phone the very reason. I could choose a simple phone but cannot find a simple provider.

You may have a new customer as I just noticed Samsung has added an eSIM to my phone and removal is not an option.

@robbraxmantech

6 ай бұрын

Many new phones are eSIM only. For example, iPhones

Merci

Tracking 📲 Is NOT ADEQUATE ✔️🇺🇲🤔🧐 But Is Done. Mobile Carriers ✔️📱 Track Phones & Do Wrongs To You 👾📱🇺🇲

Police in UK use IMSI Catchers all the time at every protest or march. They also get used for surveillance illegally in the North West. They spent £1.8Million on surveillance devices to use without warrants and lie saying informants give details etc.

How do phone carriers in the US block 3G phones if there's no longer a 3G network for them to connect to?

@robbraxmantech

6 ай бұрын

I explained that. They block IMEI (phone model portion) of 3G models. Or they just go by age of the phone

@johnnymnemonic1369

6 ай бұрын

but if there's no 3G signal to start with, the phone can't transmit anything to the provider @@robbraxmantech

@robbraxmantech

6 ай бұрын

Your phone is a radio. 3G are designated frequencies which still exist. But they have been reallocated to multichannel LTE (5G). So if you have a 3G phone, you're disrupting the LTE signal

Is cricket a bad carrier to use?

@great_gold9016

6 ай бұрын

Please watch the whole video, Rob answers this question. (Around 8:27 minute mark, he says to Dump Ting and Cricket!).

They also track you through your 911 feature 😢

@Legomanfred

6 ай бұрын

Not according to what Rob said at the end portion of the video.

@Keith-tz2jy

6 ай бұрын

@@Legomanfred well I was under government Silvalance

@Legomanfred

6 ай бұрын

@@Keith-tz2jy you have my sympathies. Gotta run, said too much already...

OK they need to know who is using their service for billing and such. So how much information do they really need to know?

@robbraxmantech

6 ай бұрын

I grant that they will find the phone model in the IMEI useful. But outside of the carrier, no one else should see that. IMSI obviously is needed by the carrier but no one else.

Can the phone carrier see the IMEI of de-Google'd phones though?

@StaryWkurwiony

6 ай бұрын

ISP knows much more about you than just your IMEI no matter if you degoogled your phone or not.

@robbraxmantech

6 ай бұрын

Again, it is a matter of "who cares" in this case. So it depends on WHO can see what. The carrier can see. But they matter the least.

@MinisterRedPill

6 ай бұрын

​@@robbraxmantechhow? The carrier can divulge your location to LE

@janburn007

6 ай бұрын

@@MinisterRedPill It does not matter what type of mobile phone one has (& whether it is a de-Googled phone or not) - the carrier will always know what IMEI number is being used to connect to their network, because an IMEI number is a necessary requirement to connect to any phone network. However this information (ie what IMEI number is being used to connect a particular phone number to their network) is confidential to the phone carrier & in theory at least, cannot be released to any third parties such as law enforcement, without a warrant. The information that your mobile phone carrier holds about you & your phone account with them is also confidential - except where law enforcement has a warrant for the release of that information. The accuracy of location information on the basis of an IMEI alone, is not that great.

"IMEI's are always visible to the carrier after a connection to the cell network". Is this true even for de-Googled phones? Also, "de-Googled phones do not show the iMEI to any app". Even the phone app, or the service provider? Lastly, I guess the safest thing to do is to just rely on wifi, and never use cell networks anywhere in the world, right? I'm curious, cuz I'm about to start a backpacking trip, and I'd like to be anonymous while abroad, on a de-googled phone.

@robbraxmantech

6 ай бұрын

Yes it is true of all phones. But the point is it is not visible to Google. To the carrier, who cares?

@Chuck8541

6 ай бұрын

@@robbraxmantech Good point.

2nd dumb phone and faraday bag?

@rocksolidhope

6 ай бұрын

De-googled phone would be better solution.

@BroonParker

6 ай бұрын

@@rocksolidhope working on it.

🎯💯

Hey man i dont mean to alarm you i dig your videos but i watched this last night and thought i was seeing things, after sleep im still seeing it and also in other videos but less promounced… hope youre alright….!theres a baby sitting next to you…

I once replaced a logic board in a samsungdevice. Had a new IMEI afterwards. Any actions required? Always thought the goverment doesn't like that^^ Ps: next time I'll watch first then write..😂 thanks

@robbraxmantech

6 ай бұрын

Samsung is likely Qualcomm. There is a way to get the Mediatek IMEI Flashing tool for Mediatek phones. Qualcomm does not make theirs public as far as I am aware

A major network went down for nine hours in Australia, they claim they don’t know why, but that’s what happens when they swap to another network with backdoors and stuff, a more surveillance friendly network.

@janburn007

6 ай бұрын

From what I read - it was closer to 14 hours that the network was down. It apparently went down at around 4am in the morning (though there may not have been too many people using it at that time), & was not fully restored until about 6-30pm that same evening. And some people had to re-start their services/devices, to get the network operational again on their devices.

@bobbyjohnson116

5 ай бұрын

Probably hosted on AWS their Data center techs are not the brightest and fudge rack drains and turn off the wrong stuff and mess up settings all the time.

@janburn007

5 ай бұрын

I heard that the network went down at around 4am in the morning, but some customers did not have their services restored till around 6-30pm in the evening - so for some customers, they were without service for just over 14.5 hours. This is yet another reason why it's good to use a dual SIM phone, with each SIM being with different phone carrier/network.

😀 👍👌...

Is listening to these signals illegal? I find it hard to accept that listening to publicly broadcasted signals that are in the air everywhere could be illegal.

@robbraxmantech

6 ай бұрын

They are not illegal to listen to. It is illegal to do 2-Way communication without a license. Each carrier pays multi-millions to license the frequencies.

9:20 - and Samsung deactivates phones in countries they don't want the peoble use the phones there

degoogled phone + prepaid sim toped-up by cash would be solution

@linsqopiring6816

6 ай бұрын

Also buying the phone with cash and flashing your IMEI.

@phr3ui559

6 ай бұрын

how do you flash your imei

@janburn007

6 ай бұрын

It depends on what country you may be in. In some countries, even though you can readily purchase pre-paid SIM cards using cash - when it comes to "activating" that SIM card - you will usually need to provide some sort of verified identification - so they will still know who is using that phone/phone number.

@janburn007

6 ай бұрын

@@linsqopiring6816 In some cases & countries, flashing/changing the IMEI is not legal & may only be done by the phone's manufacturer.

@janburn007

6 ай бұрын

@@linsqopiring6816 In some cases & countries, flashing/changing the IMEI is not legal in all cases, & may only be done by, or with the authorisation of, the phone's manufacturer.

IMEI is BS.

I don't know why you are so concerned about security when you publish a youtube video, the government has your face, voice and IP?

@janburn007

6 ай бұрын

That's true - but just because he may be some kind of public figure - that does not necessarily mean that they also automatically know what phone he is using. A VPN or something similar, may also be used to prevent everyone from knowing his IP. There are other precautions that can be taken to minimise one's exposure on-line. If he is on KZread, then Google will obviously know something about him - but in other areas on-line, if he uses a non-Google web browser - it can limit on-line exposure of one's information & details.

Need help

Meshtastic get off the grid

Hey. What do you suggest for turkish system, where we can't use our mobile phones if they're not registered in turkey. For registration they're asking ridiculous over $700 otherwise you'd use it up to 4 months in a year, then sim wont work. Any suggestion to get away with this draconian system?

listen to me Mr Rob braxman 1 you make r range an appointment one o one in Hong Kong time and place up to you in Hong Kong 2 make a setup for you and me One o one video chat r call only you and me knowing about the call with out third party interfere and knowing about agenda on coming week remember this is an appt ion first part of this note is most important and with out this may be useless your blander of false arguments