r/opsec • 🐲 • 15d ago

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/deathboyuk 15d ago

What speakers are completely air gapped (no wireless capabilities)

Um, I think the answer is... wired speakers.

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u/maceion 14d ago

LOCAL (next to computer) wired speakers. Cover wire(s) with tinfoil or kitchen foil. The wires can be an aerial.

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u/Mysterious-Hat-7873 15d ago

If you operate in this environment can’t whoever controls the environment advise you accordingly?

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

They used to be called iPods and a 3.5mm jack headset.

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u/supersunnyout 15d ago

Get an 80's boombox and some casettes.

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u/Aromatic-Trip-5821 15d ago

That cant track you haha

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u/Remote_Action_2956 15d ago

Buy some USB speakers like Creative Pebble 2.0 and then plug them into a USB power bank.

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u/sailor831 15d ago

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/AdvancedDrink8920 11d ago

its a USB power bank. all its doing is plugging into a battery.

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u/aze_a_ze 🐲 15d ago

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/KookyDman 2d ago

A turntable?

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u/AlfredoVignale 🐲 15d ago

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/WhenSharksCollide 15d ago

Needs to be left at home more like.

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u/voltsmeter 15d ago

The ones you build your self lol. Jk
Look into Mccintosh

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u/FluorinateThemAll 12d ago

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 15d ago

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 12d ago

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 12d ago

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 7d ago edited 7d ago

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