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Re:ICE's Tool to Monitor Phones in Neighborhoods by buran77 on Thursday January 08, 2026 @01:38PM (#46544708)
> phone with no sim card is sufficient enough

It's most certainly not. Phones connect to a cell tower even without a SIM to make emergency calls. The phone can still be tracked and it's not a difficult leap from there to identify the owner of the phone.

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Re:ICE's Tool to Monitor Phones in Neighborhoods by embedding-shape on Thursday January 08, 2026 @02:44PM (#46545503)
Strikes me as almost negligent to say to "not be hyperbolic" and then completely downplay exactly how they can track you in the real world.
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Re:ICE's Tool to Monitor Phones in Neighborhoods by ActorNightly on Friday January 09, 2026 @09:38AM (#46554305)
I keep forgetting this is no longer a tech forum, so i miss things that i think would be understood.

You obviously have to enable airplane mode, and have it on by default.

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Re:ICE's Tool to Monitor Phones in Neighborhoods by AlexeyBelov on Saturday January 10, 2026 @05:32AM (#46564499)
> I keep forgetting this is no longer a tech forum

Can you not?

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