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iamnotadream
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Disabling iPhone Tracking Feature
#14330807 - 04/21/11 11:33 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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This article on MSN (of all places) caught my eye and I figured I'd share with the community here.
http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/04/21/6508369-how-to-disable-your-iphones-creepy-tracking-feature?gt1=43001
Basically, it's a How-To article on disabling this unwanted "feature".
While this may be obvious to others, I'm posting it so others can catch onto this. I myself had no idea of it. I own an Android, and I suspect that there's an identical tracking feature on the son of a bitch.
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Re: Disabling iPhone Tracking Feature [Re: iamnotadream]
#14330890 - 04/21/11 11:43 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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This is partly why I still use a landline.
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iamnotadream
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Re: Disabling iPhone Tracking Feature [Re: Le_Canard]
#14330939 - 04/21/11 11:51 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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I was thinking of getting rid of my Android when I move to a new apartment, and replacing it with a pre-paid flip phone from the bronze age.
I thought landlines were tapped into really badly also? Maybe not?
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Re: Disabling iPhone Tracking Feature [Re: iamnotadream]
#14331059 - 04/22/11 12:15 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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That's not what I've read. Cops need a warrant to tap a landline, but can listen into any cellphone conversation as they please without one. I could be mistaken though.
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Re: Disabling iPhone Tracking Feature [Re: Le_Canard]
#14333735 - 04/22/11 02:30 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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ToiletDuk said: That's not what I've read. Cops need a warrant to tap a landline, but can listen into any cellphone conversation as they please without one. I could be mistaken though. 
They need a warrant for cell phones too.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080526131329AAxeXG6
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That's a relief, then. I still won't use a cell, as I don't really have that many to call nor are there that many who call me.
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Re: Disabling iPhone Tracking Feature [Re: Le_Canard]
#14339490 - 04/23/11 05:01 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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In the Navy I was a cryptologic technician (R branch), and after the patriot act was signed it basically shit our freedom right out of the ass of lady liberty. Before deployment my workspace was ordered to monitor cellular communications to ensure ship's company weren't talking about operations (OPSEC).
We were required to immediately stop listening to people if they weren't ship's company, but that is a fucking retarded order to give since our antennas picked up signals from miles and miles away. Plus it took a fair amount of time to tell if someone was ship's company or not. Due to the nature of cell phones though there is a different frequency for each person talking. So tuning in to one freq. only gave you one side of a conversation. As a work center supervisor I basically disobeyed orders since this task was basically impossible anyways and violated USSID 18.
http://cryptome.org/nsa-ussid18.htm
Cell phones are very vulnerable. You'd probably be better off using some type of voip at a wifi hotspot somewhere.
edit: this was a week before going underway so we were in port.
Edited by Anonymous (04/23/11 05:01 PM)
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Re: Disabling iPhone Tracking Feature [Re: Anonymous #1]
#14339742 - 04/23/11 05:44 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Interesting It'd take a lot more effort to tap a landline, no?
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Re: Disabling iPhone Tracking Feature [Re: Le_Canard]
#14342778 - 04/24/11 09:49 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Talking over a cellphone isn't that dangerous. It's easier to obtain records from texts, as these remain and can be obtained 30 days or 100 days after the fact. Voice needs to be listened to at the moment it is sent/recieved or there is no record, which means they'd have to be actively monitoring you. If you're that far in then you're doing more than just smoking the reef. 
About the vulnerabilities of being listened to in on, it can happen but they can't use it against you. It's not like if they listen in on you without a warrant they have a case, it's inadmissible. However it would be nice if voice was encoded before it was sent, thus affectively making the frequency sound like jarble unless the recieving end is the # called.
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Re: Disabling iPhone Tracking Feature [Re: Maverick]
#14349941 - 04/25/11 04:16 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Maverick said: Talking over a cellphone isn't that dangerous. It's easier to obtain records from texts, as these remain and can be obtained 30 days or 100 days after the fact. Voice needs to be listened to at the moment it is sent/recieved or there is no record, which means they'd have to be actively monitoring you. If you're that far in then you're doing more than just smoking the reef. 
About the vulnerabilities of being listened to in on, it can happen but they can't use it against you. It's not like if they listen in on you without a warrant they have a case, it's inadmissible. However it would be nice if voice was encoded before it was sent, thus affectively making the frequency sound like jarble unless the recieving end is the # called.
why does it need to be listened to in realtime? Is there some legal precedant that limits them to listening to live? As opposed to recording?
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Re: Disabling iPhone Tracking Feature [Re: snoot]
#14353069 - 04/26/11 01:00 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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I guess they could be recording every single conversation that occurs every second across the entire US. Though for some reason I don't think it would be very economical, not to mention the problem filtering represents in terms of computing power... Even still it's federally illegal to record conversations, so if mass conversations of the public were being recorded, they wouldn't tell you or use it as direct evidence against you as that would kind of ruin everything for them.
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Re: Disabling iPhone Tracking Feature [Re: Maverick]
#14358458 - 04/26/11 10:42 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Maverick said: I guess they could be recording every single conversation that occurs every second across the entire US. Though for some reason I don't think it would be very economical, not to mention the problem filtering represents in terms of computing power... Even still it's federally illegal to record conversations, so if mass conversations of the public were being recorded, they wouldn't tell you or use it as direct evidence against you as that would kind of ruin everything for them.
they wouldnt listen to everyone that wouldnt make sense, why listen to grandma discus the route of her bus schedule, that kind of stuff wouldnt be included it would be a waste of resources and ineffecient, would be a screen sort of mechanism involved or people would record conversations for investigations.
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