[Swordmaker]

HOW TO TURN YOUR IPHONE OFF COMPLETELY

To ensure the phone is completely inoperable, it must be put into a sepcial DFU mode normal used to upgrade its software

Step-by-step guide on how to put iPhone in DFU mode

To enter DFU mode:

• Plug your iPhone in any power outlet or USB port
  
• Hold the power button
  
• After three seconds hold the home button as well
  
• Keep both pressed for 10 seconds
  
• Release the power button while continuing to hold the home button for another ten to fifteen seconds while the phone enters DFU mode

[Swordmaker]

Snowden claims the NSA can surreptitiously turn on iPhones remotely and turn on microphones and listen in, activate Apps. . . IF they've intercepted your iPhone and implanted it with hardware —PING!

Apple NSA Security Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[Fire_on_High]

Learn the battery consumption quirks of your device and be alert to changes. Kinda like on a pc, staying aware of your typical temperatures and resource usage patterns can reveal malware or developing hardware problems in time to be corrected easily.

if you have a strong baseline of normal operations, any changes will stick out like a sore thumb.

[sten]

the answer is yes.

the one you should really come to grips on is...

with your computer off, they can power on your network card, upload software and have it open the mic and listen.

all without the machine booting up

[Defiant]

If Apple allowed removable batteries, this could be avoided.

[TEXOKIE]

bttt

[Telepathic Intruder]

I think you can buy security software from the State Department that prevents the State Department from doing that.

[jonrick46]

We must all do microphone checks. Hold the phone near the toilet and fire off your salute of disapproval.

[cynwoody]

OK. So, you powered down your phone, and it reacted appropriately and turned off, at least to all outward appearances (unless you've got a good thermometer).

You should be good, right?

Absolutely. If your phone is powered off, it can't respond to the network. NSA proof!

But what if, thanks to having quietly installed an NSA firmware "upgrade" via whatever route, it didn't really power off?

The only way you'd know is if your phone's battery life is atypical. If it's still warm despite being turned off ... if you get droned!

[Vendome]

Ridiculous question.

They do listen, archive and index everything.

Think of like this; just 15 years ago it cost $1,000 for a 1 gigabyte hard drive.

Today, you can purchase a 64 gigabyte thumdrive for $50 bucks!

What is the cost for storing 1,000,000 times more information? And how much “zero” “real estate” will it take to store your life, a meta file or cycle?

[fso301]

If you think your phone is off but it isn’t, you will have decreased battery life because the phone really isn’t off.

[Objective Scrutator]

I wish it were true that only hippies, hipsters, and those smug “fair traders” at Starbucks used Apple phones, and that the NSA didn’t know how to wiretap other smartphone brands. That way, I would be confident that the NSA isn’t trying to spy on upstanding citizens, and that it would actually be doing something useful with our tax dollars.

[Tzfat]

If not jail broken? No. Positively no. Anyone who thinks so, also likely believes in “chemtrails” and aliens being held at Area 51.

[reasonisfaith]

All they’re gonna hear is me talking about how stupid they are.