Thread: tracking and spying
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Hurrian is offline Hurrian
2012-12-18 , 12:54
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Originally Posted by norayr View Post
seriously I am not sure - there were devices with backup batteries and taking out the batteries was not enough to be safe. (:
Thankfully, the internal battery in your N900 is probably dry by now (and has only enough power to run the RTC chip)

Originally Posted by juiceme View Post
It does not matter whether you use wifi or gsm, the men in black sunglasses and hoods can track you anyway.
All it takes is a nice piece of SW on your device, it does not matter what kind of encryption you use brcause he interception can be done before the encryption, and same goes for location determining.
Heck, it doesn't even have to be running on your phone.
"Lawful Intercept" interfaces in cell tower software or Stingray-type intercept devices can do this easily, assuming you're being monitored by LEOs (or other entities)

/tinfoil

In all seriousness, the only piece of software you should worry about if you were privacy-conscious is the baseband, which is closed for obvious reasons.

However, unlike some Android devices, the CPU talks to the baseband over SSI, and not thru a memory device.
It should be doable to audit the communication between these two.

If you were truly a paranoid tinfoil hatter, you'd be running an obscure microkernel OS on a synthesized OpenCores IP block on an FPGA with an open compiler, interfacing on GSM networks with a USRP and OsmocomBB.

Oh, and a 500-pack of one-time-use SIM cards.
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