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<tt>You could short out the antenna but that could burn out the
transmitter and things around it.<br>
<br>
</tt><tt>You could change the software on the phone and remove the
code to start up the cell transceiver.<br>
<br>
</tt><tt>If you remove the sim card then the phone will not login to
any carriers network and will not contact the internet. <br>
</tt><tt>The phone will still be able to make emergency calls and
arguably you could be tracked via the IMEI and possible GPS
feedback that is supposedly part of the emergency call service.<br>
In theory the carriers could let non sim enabled phones to login
to their networks and then mask them out but there would be little
value to this so I doubt that they would carry on some truly
surreptitious tracking just for the joy of it.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 06/14/2017 06:49 AM, o1bigtenor via
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 11:21 PM, ac
via talk <span dir="ltr"><<a
href="mailto:talk@gtalug.org" target="_blank"
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13 Jun 2017 13:25:28 -0400 (EDT)<br>
"D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" <<a
href="mailto:talk@gtalug.org" moz-do-not-send="true">talk@gtalug.org</a>>
wrote:<br>
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<span class="">> | That way the control is what I chose
and the information I share is<br>
> my own | security/privacy trade-off.<br>
><br>
</span>+1<br>
<span class=""><br>
> All systems other than Linux and other open source
OSes (BSD,<br>
> FreeDOS...) seem to have migrated to oversharing.
And even on Linux,<br>
> some important applications programs seem to be
headed that way<br>
> (Firefox?).<br>
><br>
</span>with the advent of strong encryption it is in the
best interests of multinationals<br>
and governments (+1% and Capital) that there are other
ways of obtaining data.<br>
<br>
it would be trivial for the same players to make every
person in the world 100% secure<br>
and private, if that was the objective.<br>
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<div>As I don't want to be one of the 'chickens' I am
wanting a way of shutting down </div>
<div>a black box internal cell phone wireless transmitter. I
need to use the black box, </div>
<div>would very much rather not but for health reasons its
quite useful, but don't want </div>
<div>the stupid thing to be transmitting. According to the
'idiots' selling the thing it will </div>
<div>only transmit AFTER its been logged onto the companies
'cloud' (like I'm going to </div>
<div>pay for insecurity!!). There seems to be no
understanding that </div>
<div>1. I don't want their access to my data</div>
<div>2. I don't want the machine looking for a cell network.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Somehow the sellers (and manufacturer) are missing the
point that if the </div>
<div>machine can send cell phone signals it can also receive
them - - - and I won't </div>
<div>allow that if I can help it. The machine has what is
termed an 'airplane' mode but </div>
<div>use of this results in regular requests to be taken off
of that mode. ET is desperate </div>
<div>to call home.</div>
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</div>
<div>How could I disable this 'feature'?</div>
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<div>Dee</div>
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