“On an iPhone, you can turn off location services”
You can do that on any phone, except for 911. But as I said, if you have the phone numbers or phone ID’s which are easily accessed by the Feds, you can ping the phone and get a near exact location in most cases..
If you have other intel like street addresses of home, friends and family, all you need is a general area..
Once you seize a phone, you can get into the cloud storage and contents. But you really only need to have the phone for a minute to transfer enough data to clone it and have you way with the data later on.
All this once required warrants but they can browse your stuff, and as long as they don’t try to use it in court, they don’t need a stinkin warrant.
The smart phone is akin to a little black book and worse...It holds data on not just you, but every friend and acquaintance you have had any exchanges with.
It is not secure. Certainly few if any devices in consumer land are.
So if you need security, you either don’t use them or you buy a device that is..One that essentially self destructs without a proper code because the manufacturer will tell them how to bypass a lock.. One that places all your e-mail and messaging on a secure server located off shore and controlled by people you trust. That’s just two of the primary needs for a secure smart phone.
Apple is not secure, nor are most Androids I have looked at. As I said Blackberry did have secure offshore servers for e-mail..and messaging..I don’t know if they still do.
I did have a Samsung that would go into a reset without a code, but it did not have the other things I wanted. I suppose I could order a Black Phone. But the cost seems too high for me, based on what I would use it for as I have retired.
Gone Galt....I’d say see ya later but I doubt it..
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You can? How? Tell me how you are going to unlock my iPhone to gain this magical access without bricking it and erasing all content for exceeding the number of failed attempts to use my random eight character or more pass code. Unless you can do that you can't do squat. . . Including clone it. Even Apple cannot bypass the encryption on the iPhone or decrypt it without the pass code, so merely unlocking it with a back door does no good to access data.
So, for your advice to buy a phone that IS secure, I bought the phone that has been proved to be so and is replacing the Blackberry in the Enterprise and Government usage. The iPhone.
You've paid zero attention to facts in favor of your fantasy.
If I didn't want the anyone to know anything about me if I were doing anything nefarious, I'd buy a untraceable Go phone that can't be associated with me in anyway. You can even get smart Gophones.