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Re:California Police Used Stingrays in Planes to Spy on Phones by nier on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @09:24PM (#10985657)
How fitting that they called it airplane mode. Looks like you might want to have that enabled when visiting that particular amusement park.
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Re:California Police Used Stingrays in Planes to Spy on Phones by tedmiston on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @09:31PM (#10985700)
Apparently even airplane mode might not necessarily protect you (though I don't claim to know how this works in the internals of iOS):

> Furthermore while the IMSI is not transmitted often a silent SMS or a failed call will induce the phone to transmit its IMSI or TMSI also in and out of airplane mode while registering on the network.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AIMSI-catcher

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Re:California Police Used Stingrays in Planes to Spy on Phones by __david__ on Thursday January 28, 2016 @12:06AM (#10986412)
Or if you happen to live a few blocks away :-/.
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