MIVD boss: Meet without a smartphone, risk of espionage too great

Re:MIVD boss: Meet without a smartphone, risk of espionage t... by nottorp on Monday October 12, 2020 @10:12AM (#24754497)

I agree about the 3rd party internet connection.

I disagree about the GPS chip. GPS chips are receivers only. You cannot track someone through GPS unless you bug their device and make it send location through another channel. Yeah, that 3rd party internet connection :)

Also, GPS only works outdoors. Not in a corporate boardroom.

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Re:MIVD boss: Meet without a smartphone, risk of espionage t... by dylan604 on Monday October 12, 2020 @11:25AM (#24755362)

Mobile phones use GPS, to be sure, but they also discern location by WiFi radio locations. If your phone is connected to BigCorpWiFi, then we know where you are. Even if you are in the BigCorp building connected to BigCorpWiFi with SmallCorpWiFi from next door detectable, we know which side of the building of BigCorp you are located. If you're on the street corner and your phone can see the WiFi networks of WiFi-1, WiFi-2, WiFi-3, we now know which street corner you are on without accessing the GPS chip. If the WiFi-2 signal is stronger, we know which side of the street you are on.

Forget WiFi. Walking down a street with lots of retail shops while Bluetooth is enabled receives pings from all sorts of trackers/beacons. We know where you are.

TL;DR: If you think location data is only discernible by using GPS, you are incorrect.

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