Could somebody ensure this link works?
True or false:
The people who are following you are trying to kill you.
That's crazy talk!
And by the way: You really shouldn't slouch so when you sit there at your computer! And your constant nose-picking is disgusting! We surveillance technicians are people, too, you know!
Regards,
So much snark in this thread.
There are two ways you can be tracked via your phone.
1) if it is a GPS device, a lot of apps use your position to work. For example, I was at a local mexican restaraunt last night. My google ap on my cellphone popped up....asking for info about the place. Kinda spooky. Furthermore, your minute by minute location gets stored by some apps. Some of those apps communicate with the government.
2) If you have an old cell phone, or a new one with GPS turned off, your location can be determined by “triangulation”. Your cellphone pings all the cell towers around you saying “here I am. Any calls?” Your position can be found by your distance from the various towers.
Methods 1 and 2 can be defeated by turning off your phone and removing the battery.....unless you have one of those models with a capacitor that keeps certain functions like GPS active for a long time after you remove the battery.
The battery only helps with the tracking insofar as to provide power for certain functions.
Hope this helps.
Here’s a 2014 article titled “How the NSA can ‘turn on’ your phone remotely”
http://money.cnn.com/2014/06/06/technology/security/nsa-turn-on-phone/index.html
Around 2002 the FCC required all cell phones to have GPS tracking and I imagine it wasn’t for nice reasons.
Some apps intrude on your privacy.
Here’s a website that assigns a privacy grade to apps.
"Please answer to the back of this phone."
Maybe through your cellphone, but not through the battery.
From what I can tell, that antenna is a potential gateway into the phone, if the battery is plugged in. I would assume if NSA wanted in, they have a backdoor so all they need to do is get close, and they have access to the phone and its contents, which is probably what the guy in the video is talking about.
As a general rule, the only people who actually know how that world works will never comment on these threads. Anybody outside that world, even engineers, really can’t answer intelligently, because they have no idea what is going on.
As for the battery itself being a threat, I would assume it depends on whether you are a target to start with. If you are not, then probably not.
If you are already a target, then you have to assume anything you get shipped to you can do anything. Swapping out a factory battery for one with a little less lifespan and anything they want installed is not an issue. For that matter, neither is customizing your phone’s programming before it gets to you with backdoors and call outs. In that case, if you were given a custom battery, pulling the battery on your phone is not going to do anything, unless it is wrapped in a faraday type enclosure. But by then they have you fifty other ways as well, so you are shoveling shit against the tide from the start.
For various reasons in this bizarre world, if you are doing crime, I would actually assume you are not going to see this type of intrusion, since you may have lawyers, and investigations, and eventually be in court. I tend to think the guy on the vid is just seeking clicks, but you never know.
If you know you have problems and can’t see a reason though, then you very well may see all sorts of shit, and should assume as much.