Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [IP] Request: Check your cell phone to see if it's always transmitting your location [priv]]

[Tyler Durden]

Are you sure?
-TD



From: "R.A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [IP] Request: Check your cell phone to  see  
if   it's always transmitting your location [priv]]

Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:05:31 -0400

At 2:59 PM +0200 9/22/05, Eugen Leitl wrote:
>For my Treo phone, I found the location option under "Phone
>Preferences" in
>the Options menu of the main phone screen.

Bada-bing!

Fixed *that*.

Cheers,
RAH

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experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [IP] Request: Check your cell phone to see if it's always transmitting your location [priv]]

[Tyler Durden]

Actually, depending on your App, this would seem to be th very OPPOSITE of a 
moot point.

-TD


From: Gregory Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Gregory Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [IP] Request: Check your cell phone to  see 
if it's always  transmitting your location [priv]]

Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:11:10 -0700 (PDT)


> From: "Tyler Durden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [IP] Request: Check your cell phone to 
see if

it's always  transmitting your location [priv]]
> Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:56:33 -0400
>
> Are you sure?

No, but the phone now SAYS that location info is OFF except to E911...

Whether or not it actually IS turned off is a moot point.  How to check?

Regards,
Gregory Hicks

> -TD
>
>
> >From: "R.A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [IP] Request: Check your cell phone to  
see

> >if   it's always transmitting your location [priv]]
> >Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:05:31 -0400
> >
> >At 2:59 PM +0200 9/22/05, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> > >For my Treo phone, I found the location option under "Phone
> > >Preferences" in
> > >the Options menu of the main phone screen.
> >
> >Bada-bing!
> >
> >Fixed *that*.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >RAH

---

I am perfectly capable of learning from my mistakes.  I will surely
learn a great deal today.

"A democracy is a sheep and two wolves deciding on what to have for
lunch.  Freedom is a well armed sheep contesting the results of the
decision." - Benjamin Franklin

"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they
be properly armed." --Alexander Hamilton

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [IP] Request: Check your cell phone to see if it's always transmitting your location [priv]]

[Gregory Hicks]

> From: "Tyler Durden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [IP] Request: Check your cell phone to see if 
it's always  transmitting your location [priv]]
> Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:56:33 -0400
> 
> Are you sure?

No, but the phone now SAYS that location info is OFF except to E911...

Whether or not it actually IS turned off is a moot point.  How to check?

Regards,
Gregory Hicks

> -TD
> 
> 
> >From: "R.A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [IP] Request: Check your cell phone to  see  
> >if   it's always transmitting your location [priv]]
> >Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:05:31 -0400
> >
> >At 2:59 PM +0200 9/22/05, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> > >For my Treo phone, I found the location option under "Phone
> > >Preferences" in
> > >the Options menu of the main phone screen.
> >
> >Bada-bing!
> >
> >Fixed *that*.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >RAH

---

I am perfectly capable of learning from my mistakes.  I will surely
learn a great deal today.

"A democracy is a sheep and two wolves deciding on what to have for
lunch.  Freedom is a well armed sheep contesting the results of the
decision." - Benjamin Franklin

"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they
be properly armed." --Alexander Hamilton