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Ask Slashdot: How To Stay Ahead of Phone Tracking ?

Posted by samzenpus on from the watching-the-watchers dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In the last few years there has been a significant upsurge in subverting the cellular network for law enforcement purposes. Besides old school tapping, phones are have become the ideal informant: they can report a fairly accurate location and can be remotely turned into covert listening devices. This is often done without a warrant. How can I default the RF transmitter to off, be notified when the network is paging my IMSI and manually re-enable it (or not) if I opt to acknowledge the incoming call or SMS? How do I prevent GPS data from ever being gathered or sent ?"

6 of 259 comments (clear)

  1. Re:HAM radio? by Gordonjcp · · Score: 3, Funny

    Great idea! Then not only are you giving away your location but you're transmitting your message in the clear, for anyone to eavesdrop on!

    I can't help but think you've missed the point a little...

  2. Re:Only one way by thephydes · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thanks Apple, please tell your users how to remove the batteries!

  3. Re:HAM radio? by DKlineburg · · Score: 3, Funny

    I had a ham radio, but we ate it at Easter lunch. I don't know why my grandma insisted in carving the ham to look like a radio; but it was her house.

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    Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events. - Albert Einstein
  4. I have it. by BrokenHalo · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am in a position to offer a perfect solution. Just move to rural Australia and move your phone contract to Telstra. They are so fucking incompetent, nobody will ever succeed in tracking you.

    The only downside is that you won't be able to make phone calls either. :-/

  5. Bullshit - mind control circuit by Overzeetop · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's what that battery is for - the mind control circuit. It's the only way they're keeping the people in line.

    What most people don't know is that *that* is why there's a battery in your computer too! It has nothing to do with the stupid clock. The clock doesn't need the battery! You've seen the ones that work with a potato - that's proof enough that a clock doesn't need a battery. No, they have the computers programmed to reset your clock and bios after a short timeout to make you THINK you need that for the clock. And all you weak-minded losers fell for it, and the mind control circuit just keeps you believing that you need that battery.

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    Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
  6. Re:Use sombody else's phone by Fnord666 · · Score: 3, Funny

    The problem with using someone else to buy it is that there is still a person that may be able to identify you if forced to

    Don't leave any loose ends then.

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    'The tyrant will always find pretext for his tyranny.' - Aesop's Fables