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

[Tyler Durden]

Actually, depending on your App, this would seem to be th very OPPOSITE of a 
moot point.
-TD

>From: Gregory Hicks <ghicks at cadence.com>
>Reply-To: Gregory Hicks <ghicks at cadence.com>
>To: rah at shipwright.com, cypherpunks at jfet.org, camera_lumina at hotmail.com
>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 10:11:10 -0700 (PDT)
>
>
> > 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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