Re:What Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone
by jhoechtl on Thursday August 04, 2016 @07:37AM
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Is this really true or your speculation? Really curious about that but yeah, I am also suspecting that while the phones seem quiet they are actually listening ... sometimes.
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Re:What Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone
by FoeNyx on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @06:27PM
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In 2014 Snowden said NSA can do so (but not how).
It was quite discussed at that time. for example: http://www.tomsguide.com/us/nsa-remotely-turn-on-phones,news...
Re:What Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone
by djrogers on Thursday August 04, 2016 @01:32PM
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That's not even close - you linked to an article from 2006 (before the first iPhone was introduced) about microphone activation on phones like Motorola RAZRs which are already powered on. Oh, and this was legal and in the open.
Nice try, but that's a long way from a (long running, secret, and still hidden) vast government/corporate conspiracy to remotely power on any smartphone to spy on the owner.