First off, I know the chances of the NSA spying on me are slim to none, I’m exceptionally boring…
That said, it’s the principle of the thing, their blatant disregard for privacy and Constitutional Rights is infuriating, so, I want to make their job of spying on law abiding citizens as annoying as possible
Since they have the ability to remotely activate smartphone cameras and mics, I wanted to find a simple physical way of disabling these phone features, yet not damage the phone itself…
Front facing camera; covered with two layers of black electrical tape, simple, effective, and reversible, yet renders the Ffc inoperable
Microphone; I took an old unused pair of Apple Earbuds (3rd gen, just before the EarPods) and disassembled the remote pad on the right headphone cable, the mic was located under a small mesh grille at the very top of the circuit board, it was a small surface mount component, I simply popped it off the board, verified the mic was dead, and reassembled the remote pad, all other features still work, volume, skip, back and pause, and the earbuds still play audio good as new, there’s just no audio from the mic
When the headphones are plugged in, the phone mic is disabled, so, as long as the headphones are plugged in, the internal mic is disabled
No video from the Ffc, no audio from the internal mic, and no mic in the headphones, remote monitor- ability of my phone has been bricked, now to deactivate the GPS
What, me, paranoid?..
WHO WANTS TO KNOW?!? 