JustSomeOldGuy wrote: ↑Mon Oct 11, 2021 10:41 pm
Nah. Just power it down, wrap it in tin foil.....
No battery no signal
These folks make some pretty good products (just sayin'): https://mosequipment.com/. Available on Amazon, too; just search "mission darkness" or "faraday bag". Although the Faraday shielding beanies and caps are...uh, a little...much.
Cool site.
IPhone’s don’t have removable batteries. If you power it down does it still ping a location? Asking for a friend.
Just catching up to some old posts.
I'm curious about why would anyone worry about shutting off their phone or trying to hide it from being pinged while out and about when it can't be used if off or battery removed instead of just leaving it at home on or off. Have I missed something?
JustSomeOldGuy wrote: ↑Mon Oct 11, 2021 10:41 pm
Nah. Just power it down, wrap it in tin foil.....
No battery no signal
These folks make some pretty good products (just sayin'): https://mosequipment.com/. Available on Amazon, too; just search "mission darkness" or "faraday bag". Although the Faraday shielding beanies and caps are...uh, a little...much.
Cool site.
IPhone’s don’t have removable batteries. If you power it down does it still ping a location? Asking for a friend.
Just catching up to some old posts.
I'm curious about why would anyone worry about shutting off their phone or trying to hide it from being pinged while out and about when it can't be used if off or battery removed instead of just leaving it at home on or off. Have I missed something?
Apparently you have. I have an iPhone and have decided to live with the downside. Too many upsides, and I'm pretty well a vanilla milkshake. Just can't imagine anybody will get anything actionable on me, even though I'm sure they know every where I've been since 2010. You can't remove the battery and even when it is "off" the network tracks it's location. When it's on, Seri is listening ALL of the time for activation phrases. We only have Apple's word that that info isn't recorded and monetized. Yeah right!
JustSomeOldGuy wrote: ↑Mon Oct 11, 2021 10:41 pm
Nah. Just power it down, wrap it in tin foil.....
No battery no signal
These folks make some pretty good products (just sayin'): https://mosequipment.com/. Available on Amazon, too; just search "mission darkness" or "faraday bag". Although the Faraday shielding beanies and caps are...uh, a little...much.
Cool site.
IPhone’s don’t have removable batteries. If you power it down does it still ping a location? Asking for a friend.
Just catching up to some old posts.
I'm curious about why would anyone worry about shutting off their phone or trying to hide it from being pinged while out and about when it can't be used if off or battery removed instead of just leaving it at home on or off. Have I missed something?
Apparently you have. I have an iPhone and have decided to live with the downside. Too many upsides, and I'm pretty well a vanilla milkshake. Just can't imagine anybody will get anything actionable on me, even though I'm sure they know every where I've been since 2010. You can't remove the battery and even when it is "off" the network tracks it's location. When it's on, Seri is listening ALL of the time for activation phrases. We only have Apple's word that that info isn't recorded and monetized. Yeah right!
Me too except I don’t have siri activated. Maybe she’s still listening, IDK.
I was just saying that if a person didn’t want to be tracked (I.e. out for nefarious reasons) they could just leave the phone at home.
JustSomeOldGuy wrote: ↑Mon Oct 11, 2021 10:41 pm
Nah. Just power it down, wrap it in tin foil.....
No battery no signal
These folks make some pretty good products (just sayin'): https://mosequipment.com/. Available on Amazon, too; just search "mission darkness" or "faraday bag". Although the Faraday shielding beanies and caps are...uh, a little...much.
Cool site.
IPhone’s don’t have removable batteries. If you power it down does it still ping a location? Asking for a friend.
Just catching up to some old posts.
I'm curious about why would anyone worry about shutting off their phone or trying to hide it from being pinged while out and about when it can't be used if off or battery removed instead of just leaving it at home on or off. Have I missed something?
Apparently you have. I have an iPhone and have decided to live with the downside. Too many upsides, and I'm pretty well a vanilla milkshake. Just can't imagine anybody will get anything actionable on me, even though I'm sure they know every where I've been since 2010. You can't remove the battery and even when it is "off" the network tracks it's location. When it's on, Seri is listening ALL of the time for activation phrases. We only have Apple's word that that info isn't recorded and monetized. Yeah right!
Me too except I don’t have siri activated. Maybe she’s still listening, IDK.
I was just saying that if a person didn’t want to be tracked (I.e. out for nefarious reasons) they could just leave the phone at home.
Yes. It's my understand that you are correct.
I'm not sure what it says about me that I panic when I find I've accidentally left it at home. Part of that is conditioning. For 15 years I was head of the IT department for a newspaper and was on call 16/7. (08:00 to 01:00 when the press cranked up. I carried a pager years before cell phones. My job was dependent on being reachable during those hours. I was expected tp drop whatever I was doing and fix any problems that might endanger the next day's publication.
I'm now 65 1/2 and my life is 71. Kids have all moved to other cities and it's just us and the fur babies in that big-ol two story house. I still work 3 - 12 hr days (It will be November 2022 before I can go on full SS retirement.) and don't feel comfortable if she can't contact me. I'm trading freedom for safety.
But it goes even further. With cameras so prevalent now, hooking all that stuff together in a national database should make any privacy of movement impossible. Security cameras in stores, on streets, body cams, dash cams, ATMs, gas pumps, and who know what else can all be searched with facial recognition software and license plate readers. It's technically possible for the feds to track your movements outside out your house back for years. The infrastructure is already in place. All of those cameras.
Can Big Brother access them?
It's technically possible. We just have to hope that it's still illegal and they won't violate these laws. My opinion is no better than anybody else on whether or not that's true.
You will never convince a flaming libtard that the fault lies in their own goal to destroy family values and cultural norms. To blame the person, is to admit they are completely destroying society. One has to be a special kind of stupid to think a murdering crazed individual is going to follow any law forbidding firearms, knives or other weapon they may choose to do harm to others.
