[dave at farber.net: [IP] Request: Check your cell phone to see if it's always transmitting your location [priv]]

Gregory Hicks ghicks at cadence.com
Thu Sep 22 10:11:10 PDT 2005


> From: "Tyler Durden" <camera_lumina at hotmail.com>
> To: rah at shipwright.com, cypherpunks at jfet.org
> Subject: Re: [dave at farber.net: [IP] Request: Check your cell phone to see if 
it's always  transmitting your location [priv]]
> Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:56:33 -0400
> 
> Are you sure?

No, but the phone now SAYS that location info is OFF except to E911...

Whether or not it actually IS turned off is a moot point.  How to check?

Regards,
Gregory Hicks

> -TD
> 
> 
> >From: "R.A. Hettinga" <rah at shipwright.com>
> >To: cypherpunks at jfet.org
> >Subject: Re: [dave at 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

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