[dave@farber.net: [IP] Request: Check your cell phone to see if it's always transmitting your location [priv]]
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At 2:59 PM +0200 9/22/05, Eugen Leitl wrote:
For my Treo phone, I found the location option under "Phone Preferences" in the Options menu of the main phone screen.
Bada-bing! Fixed *that*. Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
Are you sure? -TD
From: "R.A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com> To: cypherpunks@jfet.org Subject: Re: [dave@farber.net: [IP] Request: Check your cell phone to see if it's always transmitting your location [priv]] Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:05:31 -0400
At 2:59 PM +0200 9/22/05, Eugen Leitl wrote:
For my Treo phone, I found the location option under "Phone Preferences" in the Options menu of the main phone screen.
Bada-bing!
Fixed *that*.
Cheers, RAH
-- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
"R.A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com> wrote:
Fixed *that*.
I've had my location off (as much as is possible) since I had my first phone that had the option, a Samsung A500. Unfortunately, that phone had a firmware bug (never fixed while I had it) such that, when it was in non-location mode, upon losing contact with the network, it would be unable to reconnect (thus, unable to place or receive calls) until powered off and then on again. The moral of the story: very few people turn the location stuff off. Otherwise, they'd have fixed this bug much sooner, as it made the phone more or less unusable for those who cared to do so. -- Riad S. Wahby rsw@jfet.org
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