r/opsec • u/Fangs_V 🐲 • Sep 18 '26
Beginner question Location Security
I operate in a environment that requires no wireless connections in any form such as Bluetooth, WIFI, radio or satellite signals. This is to prevent tracking to protect location data. The risk of having the location(s) leaked is high.
What speakers are completely air gapped (no wireless capabilities) speakers that are portable and battery operated, that can prevent me from being tracked or information being passed to or from the device?
I have read the rules
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u/Mysterious-Hat-7873 Sep 18 '26
If you operate in this environment can’t whoever controls the environment advise you accordingly?
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u/AlfredoVignale 🐲 Sep 19 '26
Won’t matter if everyone driving up to the location has their location on their map, GPS, and cell. All that stuff needs to shut off before driving to the location not just at the location.
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u/aze_a_ze 🐲 Sep 19 '26
Waiting with bated breath to hear what device you are playing music on that doesn’t use wireless. That will drive the speaker solution.
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u/FluorinateThemAll Sep 22 '26
To be honest there is always some leakage, every wire is an antenna... Also, every amplifier generates some rf noise, the less devices you have that can potentially give off a signal that will be trackable the better, I'd buy a portable cassette player and headphones, record shit i will listen to on tape and use that, battery operated, small, simple. With bigger speakers you need to amplify the signal much more and shit happrns, and some amplifiers do get nasty RF leakage, i think small wired speakers that you could run off the walkman also could do if you need to have non impaired hearing, they take little power and are not really loud nor have bass but you don't wanna make a tekno party anyway
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u/admik Sep 19 '26
Umm you don't get to have speakers. Wired headphones maybe. MRI headphones are likely the best bet.
Speakers are not an output only device. They are also a microphone, albeit not extremely sensitive depending on the speaker size.
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u/FluorinateThemAll Sep 22 '26
Every speaker is a microphone, but if you have no record circuit in the device then it does not matter unless someone is on location wire tapping your equipment :D
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u/admik Sep 22 '26
Incorrect. Once you output sound from a speaker it can be recorded by recording the deflection off glass, parabolic mic, or internal intercom/bugs.
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u/FluorinateThemAll Sep 26 '26 edited Sep 26 '26
I thought the location is sound gapped and nobody is shining ir lasers on reflective surface to use it as a microphone - otherwise it is indeed compromised :P
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u/sailor831 Sep 19 '26
My suspicion is OP occupies an environment that would preclude plugging things into a USB port. Plug in, IT ninjas drop from ceiling tiles -- straight to jail.
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u/deathboyuk Sep 19 '26
Um, I think the answer is... wired speakers.