On 08/09/13 20:10, erikthorsen wrote: > So essentially.. If I mighty paraphrase here. No real point in > running Replicant, you're screwed by default regardless, might as > well enjoy all them cool games and stuff on them cool app stores.
Well for a while I was thinking that it might be possible to power down the modem part of the mobile phone to prevent that sort of tracking. Like computers, mobile phones (or at least some) do that for other types of hardware, such as Wi-Fi, when not in use. I asked at the Replicant forums, and this is not something that Replicant can do at the moment. So basically yes, if you carry a mobile phone with the battery in then you're probably screwed. So I'll just keep carrying around my phone with the battery out, as it is easy to take out and put back in. Not sure if that's the case for smartphones. Maybe this will be my last mobile phone then. Amdrew.
