Microsoft Phone Tracking You - No Matter What You Do!

Discussion in 'Latest Hip News Stories' started by skip, Sep 1, 2011.

  1. skip

    skip Founder Administrator

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    Unsurprisingly, it's not just the iPhone that tracks user location data and stores it on their servers. No, Microsoft is just as guilty with its Windows Phone software. Apparently there is no way to turn it off. The option to stop tracking doesn't do anything.

    No doubt this was programmed as part of a secret contract with the NSA to monitor all users of Windows phones.

    A class-action lawsuit has been filed against Microsoft over this security breach. Perhaps they should also sue the Federal government who demands such info.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/31/microsoft-windows-phone-lawsuit_n_944197.html
     
  2. midgardsun

    midgardsun Senior Member

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    Thats why I dont have a cell phone- I never needed one neither:)
     
  3. mr_fark_q

    mr_fark_q Member

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    anything that is mobile and can make or recive calls,will give them ur whereabouts.after being tracked many years ago by the police.i dont trust anything mobile.
     
  4. primalflow

    primalflow Member

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    Hey Skip, what's with all these "news flashes" of things already known to happen on larger scales. I understand trying to get people riled up enough to do something, but if they haven't already, these relatively petty things aren't going to do the trick, especially things that are again, already known to happen on much larger scales.
     
  5. Scorpio Kenny

    Scorpio Kenny Church of the Good Earth - ArchBishop

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    We're the world's Greatest Police State.

    If you recall, we were the greatest country in the world. Now we're number 48. And we also won the Space Race. Now we don't have a space program. What's next?

    We're number 1. We're number 1. We're number 1.

    We're number 1. We're number 1. We're number 1.

    We're number 1. We're number 1. We're number 1.

    I like news flashes.
     
  6. Montreal-Mark

    Montreal-Mark Membre

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    And ?
    Nobody will do anything about this.
    They will still buy Iphones etc.

    The United States of today is a nation
    of violent sheep that go shopping and watch movies


    You offer your own children as sacrifices in name of patriotism
    You see nothing except what the TV tells you to see
    You won't accept any criticism regardless if it is given nice or hostilely
     
  7. Dude111

    Dude111 An Awesome Dude

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    Same here.... Maybe back in the 80s when they first came out i might have gotton one (Analogue and easier to use) but NOT NOW!!!!!

    I dont want anything to do with this new spying trash!!
     
  8. Global Stoner

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    Did anyone read why apple where tracking your data?

    The much bigger issue in my eyes is why they made the fuckup of keeping it as an unencrypted file. As I mentioned on the other thread if your paranoid, then get a PAYG sim and don't register it. You can even change them! Take a lesson from drug dealers.

    Of course the much bigger issue is finding someone with WP7 device. :D
     
  9. Global Stoner

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    And yet you sit on your PC.
     
  10. Dude111

    Dude111 An Awesome Dude

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    Computers ARE NOT THE SAME as this stuff!!
     
  11. Global Stoner

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    Really? If you belive that someone is bothered enough about your insignificant life* that they'll go to effort of tracking you, do you not think they can find out all they need to know with out it?

    * Not abuse, but I practice security through anonymity on the basis I'm really not important enough to track.
     
  12. Global Stoner

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    For those that do believe they are important enough to be followed, then start looking at ways to use these tools against them rather then sticking your head in the sand.
     
  13. midgardsun

    midgardsun Senior Member

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    Everything and everybody is tracked and all you do is stored in many places.
     
  14. jimmyjoe1

    jimmyjoe1 toker Lifetime Supporter

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    I don't feel I'm important enough. for my phone to be tracked but a friend of mine had to waste a few phones. said he was been tracked.
     
  15. Montreal-Mark

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    According to a manual publish by Ottawa for use by various police
    departments in Canada. The police are supposed to

    1)regularly drive
    up and down city streets and sound their sirens even though there
    is no crime or emergency being committed.

    2)Talk and appear aggressive
    with random people in high visibility areas. Preferably targeting individuals that are non-conformist or "alternatives".

    3)Knock on doors in "cusp"
    residential areas and using the excuse of a fictitious local break and/or
    robbery inquire about possible crimes or suspicious persons. (Cusp is an area between suburban and city)

    The point I am giving here is they are tracking you and they are going to
    to eventually randomly target you. THINK ABOUT the rate the technology
    is evolving and at the rate the police need to "justify their expenses."

    If you sit on your asshole and say "I'm not important enough" then you're
    a fool. That thinking died 10 years ago. Today you're a number, a potential
    justification or a possible revenue generating "unit."

    If they are doing the above things in Canada.
    I promise they have been doing them in England for a long time
    I promise that the Americans have it mastered to an art form.
     
  16. Global Stoner

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    Thank goodness the police where I live don't practice such heavy handed tactics to intimidate us. I'm sure it happens but it's not policy.

    Moving on though what does it mean to be tracked and how does it effect you if you are, say, an activist?

    Obviously the biggest on is to monitor your phone, so make sure you don't incriminate yourself.

    The next is to keep track of you movements, phones don't have battery life to support always on GPS (or someone would notice dam quick!) so it will be done by triangluating you from the masts. This is is nowhere near as accurate. To disable this just turn it on when you need it.

    Change sims regularly and don't register the handset.

    Whilst these things are perfective surveillance tools, they also pose a threat took existing orders. True global communication. Most recently in Middle East and even in London it's been shown that the police are currently way behind.

    Of course stay vigilant and try and stay one step ahead.
     
  17. Montreal-Mark

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    Yes they are to some degree or another. It's also not policy it's
    procedures from their operations manuals.

    But you like 99% of the people are just not aware of these tactics.
     
  18. Global Stoner

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    Remember do live in different countries. If your talking about degrees your right, the powers given to police during demonstration goes to far in my opnion.

    However its a times like that we must lean how to use this technology to our advantage and not theirs.
     
  19. jagerhans

    jagerhans Far out, man. Lifetime Supporter

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    sorry for the light OT but ... : about the phone wiretapping thing, it is hilarious that the scumbag ruling my country to the general disgrace (see below in sig) , was recorded by police while having a chat with another scoundrel wanted by the law. in this phone call he said that he is so honest and transparent he does not need to hide anyting about his life, the only possible charge against him is that he sleeps around with hookers and he 'doesn't give a shit' about that, but the phone he used had a SIM card registered in the name of an obscure peruvian worker , a mr. nobody. (imagine Mr Obama using a phone registered to some Mexican guy: wouldn't that smell like a rat?) just like mafia bosses do. sounds like a phone call made by someone who discovered he was being spied when it's too late and now makes puerile attempts to fix things a little, doesn't it ? he concluded that Italy is for sure "Shit Country" and that he's going to abandon us . oh god please.

    funny when the leader of your govt , the leader of a right wing, fascist looking, extremely conservative party from the dark ages acts and talks like any regular paranoid estabilishment-bashing anarchist or common thug. first occurrence in history , i believe.

    sorry for the OT folks but i really needed bad to let out this. :dizzy2: :bomb::willy_nilly: :banghead:
     
  20. Andrewmc

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