On 13 Nov 2013, at 2:58 pm, Andrew Thornton <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Um, technically it is correct that a phone cannot be tracked when it is > switched off! > But my understanding was that if malware turns the mobile phone back on > periodically then the phone can be tracked!! Thus taking the battery out > would be one way to defeat this. >From my reading of the reports, the implication is that the ‘off’ state of a >phone is not simply determined. With more complex phones, either malware of >other means are able to give the impression that the phone is ‘off’, in spite >of some vital circuitry being powered (such as the clock etc). The inability of some phones to remove the battery is one impediment - but in practice, how many people power down their phone and then remove the battery, to be absolutely sure? iT _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
