Quote from: thebakertrio on October 12, 2012, 05:51 amMy questions low level. 1."Faraday Bags"....wouldn't taking out the battery and powering on the phone work the same? any charge would be gone no? no charge then no GPS or ect. No it's not equivalent. This is a good question. Phones these days will inform HQ that 'the battery was removed' with a timestamp when they power back up again. You want to prevent any anomalous behavior if you're using burners. Removing a battery is a highly suspect act if it's frequent. If they are inside a Faraday cage of some kind then it's just like you walked into a building with poor cell reception or your car went into a tunnel or something like that.But you shouldn't be using burners except for emergency situations, basically when you believe your comms are compromised and you need to inform your operatives ASAP to get out of Dodge. Masterblaster is correct, using burners in a causal way to keep in contact with distributors or update clientele doesn't make sense, there are better solutions.