Subj : Re: Gmail Conspiracy
To   : KURT WEISKE
From : Mike Powell
Date : Mon Mar 03 2025 11:05:00

>  > If that was my concern, I would give the kid one of those real simple phone
>  > that can make phone calls and maybe text and that is about it.  They don't
>  > need a smart phone while they are in school.

> Yeah, a concealed Nokia candy-bar phone would be invisible, unless someone at
> the school searched their bag.

I think there are some invisible options.  You would just have to be sure
to keep the sound turned off -- or the phone entirely -- and only use it
for outbound traffic during an emergency.

> That would go up against quite a few civil liberty challenges, not to mention
> social network pressure - when a kid has to bring a hidden burner phone in cas
> there's a school shooting, and the school punishes him for that? That's a mess
> any school wouldn't want to get into.

I would agree, especially a private one.

> Now I want a phone that fits into an Altoids tin.

The flip phone I was using 11 years ago probably would have fit in an
Altoids tin.  I never tried but, if I ever have any Altoids, I am curious
enough now that I will (if I remember!).


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