You’re being tracked secretly by 3 settings on your phone By Kim Komando

Kim Komando ^ | October 26, 2024 | Kim Komando

[TexasGator]

$9995

[4yearlurker]

Me too! I love my land line and never had a cell phone or sent a text in my life. ......and somehow,I am still getting on with my life.

[maddog55]

Old news to many but hopefully those that don’t know catch on.

[Celtic Conservative]

Not bad!

CC

[dfwgator]

They are perpetual, they keep the country clean.

[ptsal]

Bkmk

[TexasGator]

“.and somehow,I am still getting on with my life.”

Having a cell phone could save your life or the life of another.

[MayflowerMadam]

Even though we had cell phones, I held on to our landline like grim death. It worked when we lost power, which happened often.

Then AT&T came through the area and replaced everything with fiber optic cable. The phone plugged into the wall just like always, but when we lost power, we lost the landline, too. I sure do miss the landline.

[lee martell]

I like Kim. I used to listen to her weekend show on AM radio, some 15 years ago. Good to know she’s still active in the techie community. She was always upbeat and engaging.

[George from New England]

Land lines are taxed into oblivion now

[TChad]

Phone trackers ping.

[Bullish]

Congrats... Welcome to 2001

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Having a phone track you is inconsequential compared to the many other ways businesses track you. Not to mention the Federal Government.

You are aware that this is all of a piece right?

[Olog-hai]

They’re made of metal. Their circuits gleam!

[BipolarBob]

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[Paal Gulli]

"My prime setting is OFF for my $26 flip phone."

I bought two ('dumb' but LTE) $30 LG flip phones the same day as I read they were quitting the cell phone business. They run the AOSP (Android Open Source Project) ROM, not the G**gle Android ROM (so there's far less spyware installed). And when I leave home, the one I'm carrying is switched off.

I didn't carry a phone with me the first 50 years of my life, and my family and friends have, over time, gotten over the expectation that they can telephone to annoy me whenever the hell they like.

[Paal Gulli]

The best smartphone for privacy at the moment is one with the CalyxOS (Android) ROM. By default it blocks the G**gle store but runs the MicroG alternative, and comes with the Aurora and F-Droid stores' apps installed. LineageOS, for one, has a bone to pick with microG, so they to not include it in their ROM, which is a major hassle for the end-user who refused to get in bed with G**gle.

CalyxOX also comes with WiFi and BlueTooth MAC Address spoofing installed an activated by default, which still leaves the problem of being identified through your IMEI every time your phone "handshakes" with a cell tower, but that's a problem no one in the privacy community has a solution to except turning off the phone.

CalyxOS is "slicker" than most of the other privacy-focused ROMs (such as LineageOS) because it's only made to run on a very few smartphones, so it's a "better fit" than if it were more of the one-size-fits-all variety .

Phones preinstalled with CalyxOX are spendier than the phones I used to self-install LineageOS on, but the the end product is so much better functioning that, to me, amortized over an anticipated four year phone life, it was worth the cost.

[A strike]

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