On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 2:38 PM, John Gitau
<jgitau@gmail.com> wrote:
actually its not just androids and Iphones, any phone with gps can
'track' you...Im not sure how much info you need but: but the US
several years back made it a requirement that cellphones making 911
calls also send their locations or have the ability to avail it, this
was built into the baseband processor - the specs were defined on 3GPP
TS 04.31. the specification was called RRLP - radio resource location
services. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RRLP
Unfortunately for you, this communication is not authenticated. RRLP
is to say the least one of the most dangerously open protocols out
there - gsm (well the baseband processor) is full of them -.
fortunately for you, people/governments are not interested in hacking
gsm networks and phones yet...if you're a criminal however....just use
that torch with a phone:-)
Apple and Android probably just have apps sitting on top of this, but
all gps enabled gsm phones are a risky affair...steve if you need more
details on the baseband processor/gps and maybe a few papers you know
where to reach me..
JGitau
On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 11:45 PM, Kinuthia Ngugi
<kinuthia.ngugi@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think if Android devices were found to be doing this it wont be much of a
> fuss, after all android has very strong open source thus geek community
> roots...this is normally taken as a shameless excuse to do all sorts things
> and get away with it :) :)..... But iPhone doing this kind of thing after
> some sort of rogue update and not declaring??? Walalalala!!....
>
> On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On a lighter note, Windows and RIM have come out protesting that no one is
>> bothering to find out if they are secretly tracking users. Both firms have
>> promised to pay anyone who proves that they are secretly tracking users
>> too.
>> link not available
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