Comment on Going to a Protest? Don't Bring Your Phone Without Doing This First
adespoton@lemmy.ca 23 hours agoCell service is always turned on on a phone, even with no SaiM card and the phone in airplane mode, and for most phones, even when the phone is “off”. They still ping the local towers semi regularly; they just don’t ramp up transmission power ir try to establish a full connection.
Anyone got a list of Bluetooth devices without a cell antenna where the BT MAC is regularly scrambled?
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Does it matter if that cell service isn’t connected to a name?
adespoton@lemmy.ca 23 hours ago
No, because it will spend most of its time after leaving the store in your home.
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
First, don’t buy it from a store. Second, turn that sucker off before you go home.