Unless the mobile phone has GPS you can only be tracked to a particular
cell. Which is a huge area. Al-Qaeda if they're smart, (and sometimes
they are), use cheap disposable phones that don't have GPS
capabilities. Satellite phones however are easier to track, which is
what attracts missiles.
On 12/28/2011 5:22 PM, Bob W wrote:
you can be tracked with any mobile phone. That's why al-Qaeda don't use
them. They tend to attract missiles.
B
There's a pulldown menu at the top of the screen. I can manually turn
the gps on and off from there. If it's off my Google maps and similar
programmes won't work.
I leave it off unless needed to run a programme both for power use and
reasons of paranoia. ;-)
I don't know if I can be "tracked" with it off. I hope not.
Cheers,
frank
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From: Larry Colen<[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: Bad news for Frank
On 12/28/2011 1:52 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
On Dec 28, 2011, at 12:49 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Paul, the boogie man will probably never show up at your door. Mine
neither.
And yes, some of the things my android (powered by Google) can do
for me are nothing short of miraculous.
That doesn't mean I want information about me floating around out
there to be used by anyone who gets their hands on it. That's why I
turn off my gps when I'm not using it.
As far as I know, the GPS is always on, but it's only seen by you
when the relevant software is being used. Could be wrong abut that, but
I can't imagine whey the phone would switch it off.
Nope, the GPS is a big power drain. It's only on when specific apps
turn it on.
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