Edward Snowden performs radical surgery on a phone to make it "go black"

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Need a phone that takes this approach: (the neo900 did not, but an interesting idea)

Cities won't talk about spying devices disguised as cell phone towers

There was a back and forth dialogue between the neo900(uber geeky community full hardware upgrade for the amazing Maemo linux N900 phone) team and Richard Stallman over at talk.maemo.org on including a plug in POCSAG pager circuit for the prototyping port and having an app that could call back numbers paged to you when you desired. It turned a mobile phone into an untrackable passive receiver until you were ready to activate the GSM system and make an outgoing call. The exchange got bogged dow…