re: Does it frighten you or concern you that your habits are tracked?

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meauxjeaux2

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Your posts concern me.

not GPS but location services. Like radio triangulation and other things the phone uses to track your location. Though yes location has to be on for it to work. Though I leave mine on.

I noticed this the other day and couldn't figure out how to clear it.

Granted I didn't spend very long trying and figured I'd frick with it later, but yeah, I didn't care for that. I also keep the location and GPS features disabled on my phone.

60 minutes last Sunday showed how easy cell phone networks are hacked, allowing the phones to be hacked thru SS7. All they needed to hack a phone was the # and once they hacked that phone they had access to everything on it and then they got the contacts and were able to hack every phone in the contacts because they had those #s. They hacked a Senator from CA, he was in on it, recording his conversations and stealing his contacts.

Then they hacked the woman doing the interview's phone and turned the camera on where they could watch her thru the camera without the phone even coming out of sleep mode, no lights, nothing. They took a screenshot and sent it to her as proof.

I knew all this was possible, but the ease in which is was done was what was creepy. In less than a minute they could do any of this and all they needed was the phones #.

They also said it didn't make a shite whether it was iPhone or Android. The iPhone was what they gave the Senator to demonstrate that hack instead of his actual cellphone.

This was done by a company based out of Germany who is hired by cellphone carriers to find weaknesses in the network, so they were granted rights to hack SS7 and not breaking the law.

Anything you say, text, search, credit cards, contacts, pictures, whatever, was at their disposal in 30 seconds from the time they started.

The NSA and other govt agencies are aware of this and use it to their advantage all the time.

TL;Dr Cellphones are an open book to people with computer skills and the desire.

Hmm, so my friend who still insists on paying bills by phone, and using the landline isn't crazy. I was at his house the other day showing him Mint. He was asking "How does it track your different savings and checkings and investments accounts?" I told him, well I gace them the login and password for every account.

He said it was nuts and that I would get hacked and so forth. I said i trust Intuit and what have you.

He has never written a check in his life, eveything is credit cards over phone or money orders. He thinks since checks have you account number on them they open you up to theft.

I don't know, I mostly don't care. It is scary the ease of acess and I amthinking how my phone is linked to everything. How hard would it be to drain my Ally and Acorns accounts? Plunder my Robin Hood account and gain access to my local bank accounts. It's all just crazy stuff. :lol;

No I'm not a creep

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Does it frighten you or concern you that your habits are tracked?

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Yeah but what am I gonna do, give up porn?