On 13/11/2013 8:01 PM, Jim Birch wrote: > If a phone can wake itself up it isn't really off. Something is ticking > over. It may have some components shutdown. > > If the phone has been hacked it would be possible to get it to wake up > without visible sign. However, I doubt that the makers would dare risking > this themselves. People might get rather upset to find that their phone is > phoning home when they thought they have switched it off. If phone was > trying to communicate when supposedly off someone would notice. > > Removing an iPhone battery requires a screwdriver to open the case. You > need to ignore the "Authorised Service Provider Only" message. > > Most other phones allow users to remove or swap the battery. > > > -Jim
Yeah, this whole thing is dodgy, and Apple phones are the dodgiest. Anyone remember the "Apple phone home" thing of 2010 which is hardly surprising?[1] Use a phone, regardless of whether it's on or off (there's not much difference to the spooks) and you're tracked, or *at the very least* trackable. [1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/7845853/iOS4-Apple-to-start-collecting-user-location-data.html _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
