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ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day (www.404media.co)
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[–] barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 61 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

A proper Linux phone cannot come soon enough

[–] StefanT@lemmy.world 23 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

As much as I would love to have a Linux phone, it will not fully help with privacy. The devices are logged into a cell tower and have a unique ID. This alone makes them trackable.

[–] barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 1 points 39 minutes ago

If the spyware/tracking started and ended at the cell tower it would be a good start. I'm not sure the sensor data would be sent to the tower either. It would just be a general area.

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

A removable physical or electronic SIM on a system that has full control of inbound or outbound traffic (linux phone) would still be a whole lot better than nothing. Imagine having a switch to reliably sever any heartbeat signals between the tower and the device at any time.

[–] StefanT@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

This would be a flight mode switch that reliably works. But it also means you are offline, which is no solution to the average "daily" problem of being tracked.

[–] mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

Yup, the baseband modem does what it’s firmware tells it to, and that’s entirely independent from the phone’s software. And open baseband modems to my knowledge don’t exist.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz -2 points 6 hours ago

The pinephone released years ago. Flip phones with removable batteries have existed for decades. At this point its on you.