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Reminds me a a city in the PNW using outdoor APs to track people. Doesn’t matter if you’re on the free WiFi they still get your movement.
by maxclark 2y ago
Reminds me a a city in the PNW using outdoor APs to track people. Doesn’t matter if you’re on the free WiFi they still get your movement.
- FollowingTheDao 2y agoYes. Carry a cell sized Faraday bag.
- eslaught 2y agoYou don't trust your own phone's airplane mode to shut the cell modem off?
- scinadier 2y agoYou do?
- FollowingTheDao 2y agoYes. At certain times.
- michaelmrose 2y agoIt doesn't. The baseband is still active and still responds to towers to a degree.
- HeatrayEnjoyer 2y agoWould the FCC and FAA permit that?
- michaelmrose 2y agoI don't understand the question. We are talking about the way it in fact works. I'm guessing that nobody at the FAA or FCC has any misunderstanding regarding this fact. Also phones don't meaningfully actually interfere with modern avionics. If your safety on the flight actually depended on hundreds of people clicking a button consistently every time the majority of planes wouldn't make it.
- hypeatei 2y ago[flagged]
- advisedwang 2y agoKinda defeats the point of having a cell phone tho
- FollowingTheDao 2y agoNot for me. But I grew up without them so…
- advisedwang 2y agoWhat are you doing with a cell phone that doesn't require it to be connected to cellular service?
- WhyNotHugo 2y agoMapping, navigation, listening to music, playing videogames, music instrument tuner. There are plenty of usages which don't require Internet/Cellular. I often walk out of home with an old iPhone which doesn't have a SIM card and it does everything that I need it to. The only thing that doesn't work is browsing the Internet or Messaging.
- morkalork 2y agoMany cities have scanners that track cellphones via Bluetooth for monitoring traffic congestion.