[RiverCrochet]

Guessing from things I've heard, take this with a grain of salt:

- In order for most cellular protocols to work successfully, it's necessary for the transmission power level (phone to tower and tower to phone) to be lowest possible.

- So that tx power has to be constantly modulated because the phone's distance is always changing as it moves, meaning the optimum power level is always changing.

- The tower is in control of this - it tells the phone how powerful to transmit, and this can be done for each device.

- So I would suppose a malicious party in control of the tower could simply tell the phone to transmit at max power, which will drain batteries quickly, especially if the connection is being actively used I guess. This may have interference considerations but if the tower is really a box on top of a car or truck it may not really matter.

- I don't know how the phone is prevented from connecting to closer non-malicious towers.

[JohnMakin]

I could hazard a guess that if someone made your phone really hot it would be able to be scanned by thermal imaging and pick you out of a crowd. Just leave phones at home, like, use 18th century methods if you have to. I dont pretend to care or know why people would be interested in this, but like, your phone probably is not your friend in a protest

[HumanOstrich]

Sounds like a great movie. When does it come out?

[JohnMakin]

nice try diddy