/. : Feds Have Access To Cellphone Tracking On Request
AVee
openmoko-comunity at avee.org
Mon Nov 26 13:26:06 CET 2007
On Monday 26 November 2007 03:36, Piotr Duda wrote:
> Ian Darwin pisze:
> [...]
>
> > And you can power off any cell phone, [...]
>
> This could not be enough. At the beginning of this list there was some
> discussion about a case where feds recorded chats of some mafia guy with
> his own car's mobile, which was turned off. IIRC that was possible because
> they remotely changed his phone firmware in the first place...
True, stuff like that is possible, at least with some phones. But removing the
battery is still a very effective way to make sure your phone is really shut,
by the time they find a way to make 'm work without electicity you will hear
about it.
AVee
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