Posted on 12/31/2013 5:05:37 AM PST by Whenifhow
Pffft! I’m on so many watch lists, I couldn’t give a damn if they add me to another one.
Sounds like a good plan. If I didn't have to have a cellphone for my job, I'd be doing the same, or just have no phone at all.
I used to have the Skillz to dial out on a dial locked, pulse dialing phone using the handset switch.
“That would mean that every manufacturer was complicit in the deliberate manufacturing of a “hacked” product. Do you honestly believe that every electronics manufacturer in the world would put their reputation on the line like that? I don’t.”
Some manufacturer’s products may be compromised without their knowing it. What manufacturer builds everything from scratch? They build products using components sourced from all over. BIOS isn’t the only place a few bytes of malicious code could hide. Computers are chock full of micro-controllers, some of which must be reprogrammable. It could be like finding a needle in the haystack. No one but the component manufacturer would have diagnostic tools to test their custom chip. Case in point: lowly SD memory chips contain microprocessors that normally function to manage faulty memory cells. There can be customized microprocessors adapted for the quirks of every batch of chips, so there is no standard to check against. Hackers can access and reprogram those microprocessors for other purposes. In summary, I am not willing to assume that hardware is secure anymore.
I'm not a lawbreaker, and I never used to mind a reasonable amount of infringement on privacy. But this is out of control, way past anything ever envisioned in the science fiction we grew up with.
Actually, your post is scarier than funny.
If the battery’s removed from your phone, I don’t see how it can be traced. With the battery in, there may be some signal that it still emits even when it’s turned off.
However, I see on this thread that it may be the case that all new phones may have sealed batteries, so that might be a moot point. My phone’s a couple of years old and I can still remove the battery. I guess I’ll find out when I upgrade.
The NSA Has A Way To Intercept Computers Mid-Shipment And Install Spyware On Them
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3106979/posts
I’m scared of this, and my post was aimed as a scary warning.
U took it the right way.
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