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A comment on Globalstar SEC filing, Apple to use 85% of its satellite network capacity. Parent comment

Re:Globalstar SEC filing, Apple to use 85% of its satellite ... by dymk on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @07:56PM (#32759022)
Airplane mode.

Of course if you don’t trust that, you shouldn’t be buying an Apple product anyways. They could ship an always on microphone streaming to their servers if they wanted to. But we trust that they won’t.

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Re:Globalstar SEC filing, Apple to use 85% of its satellite ... by adolph on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @09:19PM (#32759776)
Faraday bag or turned off in a freezer “stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”
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Re:Globalstar SEC filing, Apple to use 85% of its satellite ... by usefulcat on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @11:48PM (#32760945) 

  s/freezer/bottom of a locked filing cabinet/
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Re:Globalstar SEC filing, Apple to use 85% of its satellite ... by adolph on Thursday September 08, 2022 @10:00AM (#32765616)
Edward J. Snowden insisted that a group of lawyers advising him in the Chinese territory “hide their cellphones in the refrigerator of the home where he was staying, to block any eavesdropping,”

https://archive.nytimes.com/thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/0...

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Re:Globalstar SEC filing, Apple to use 85% of its satellite ... by alasdair_ on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @08:48PM (#32759551)
Find my works even if the iphone is turned off - does airplane mode stop this?
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Re:Globalstar SEC filing, Apple to use 85% of its satellite ... by artificial on Thursday September 08, 2022 @12:32AM (#32761202)
Since we can't remove batteries I know a mylar Cheetos snack bag does the trick.
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Re:Globalstar SEC filing, Apple to use 85% of its satellite ... by mburee on Friday September 09, 2022 @03:00AM (#32776155)
https://www.mattblaze.org/blog/faraday/

Make of that what you want

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Re:Globalstar SEC filing, Apple to use 85% of its satellite ... by dwaite on Thursday September 08, 2022 @11:52AM (#32767382)
The toggles to turn off this feature (as well as Find my in general) do stop this.
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Re:Globalstar SEC filing, Apple to use 85% of its satellite ... by ErneX on Thursday September 08, 2022 @03:24AM (#32762392)
That’s opt-in though.
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