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Re:Google Gives Feds 1,500 Phone Locations in Unprecedented ... by jki275 on Thursday December 12, 2019 @09:56PM (#21778768)
I believe if you’ve turned off the phone radio (airplane mode), that should not be the case.
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Re:Google Gives Feds 1,500 Phone Locations in Unprecedented ... by jascii on Friday December 13, 2019 @10:43AM (#21782507)
This would be true assuming the phone has not previously been compromised. Not a safe assumption considering baseband backdoors have been found in the wild and are suspected to be fairly wide spread. https://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/Samsung...
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