<html><head></head><body><div>Love the line about the blocking ability in the sales lit:</div><div><br></div><div><b>Please Note: EMP DEFENDER BAGS are not intended to completely block
cell phone transmissions. Microwave transmissions from cell phones and
Wi-Fi equipment are not valid testing methods to determine the integrity
of a Faraday Cage.</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>On Mon, 2017-08-28 at 09:32 -0400, DJ-Pfulio wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><pre><a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/12/turn_off_location_services_go_ahead_says_google_well_still_track_you/">https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/12/turn_off_location_services_go_ahead_says_google_well_still_track_you/</a>
"You can try to deny Google Play access to your handheld's location by
opening the Settings app and digging through Apps -> Google Play Store
-> Permissions, and flipping the switch for "location." But you'll be
told you can't just shut out Google Play services: you have to switch
off location services for all apps if you want to block the store from
knowing your whereabouts. It's all or nothing, which isn't particularly
nice."
You can disable location tracking history in your google account
settings online. Whether this prevents capture of the data or just
hides it from you online is an unknown.
"Don't be evil" was google's moto for a while. Now it is "Don't get
caught being creepy, but capture everything you can."
99.999% of computer/smartphone users don't really understand the level
that companies, especially google, have gone to capture as much data as
possible about us.
If you don't want to be tracked, there is only 1 solution, besides
leaving your phone at home.
Buy one of these AND use it: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01IQHZS78">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01IQHZS78</a>
or
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Blocking-Wisdompro-Shielding-Privacy-Protection/dp/B01HETGX00/">https://www.amazon.com/Blocking-Wisdompro-Shielding-Privacy-Protection/dp/B01HETGX00/</a>
Be certain to actually test it yourself. Mine blocks all RF stuff in/out.
None of this is new, it is just that most people assumed it was too hard
to NOT use google stuff/tools. That isn't the situation.
On 08/28/2017 07:39 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
<blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex">
It requires the play store app and services to be running. The play
store has the location tracker.
I found, by digging, the location history that stuff collected. It was
detailed enough that it could stand up in court as a method to place me
near a crime scene or exonerate me. So I went through and turned it all
off. The gmail app then barfed warnings about missing functionality
until some tracking stuff was reactivated. Additionally, I found no way
to stop gmail from respecting my choice for firefox. I frequently get
news notices from a friend I travelled to Ireland with. Gmail started
using only chrome for links. Chrome has no method to flush browser
history that I could find.
K-9 works just fine. Firefox works just fine. Cuprum pdf viewer is
pretty crappy (can only display first of a multi-page pdf).
I have a nice, new Oneplus 5 and I'm very close to doing a full wipe and
install only apps from freedroid.
On August 28, 2017 2:10:01 AM EDT, Alex Carver
<<a href="mailto:agcarver+ale@acarver.net">agcarver+ale@acarver.net</a>> wrote:
I was searching for information on this but couldn't find it. Is it
really requiring location services to be turned on all the time? Is it
not possible to disable location tracking through the system settings?
In the Play store it doesn't list location as a permission.
I use K-9 as well but I was curious about the Gmail app needing location
data.
On 2017-08-27 20:36, Jim Kinney wrote:
Once I noticed the gmail app update required turning on and
leaving on the
location tracking, that was the end of using it for me.
Google made using their email with non-google tool look like an
insecure mess.
All FUD.
Probably dumping google.com <<a href="http://google.com">http://google.com</a>>
<<a href="http://google.com">http://google.com</a>> email soon, too.
On August 27, 2017 11:18:06 PM EDT, Kyle Brieden
<<a href="mailto:kyle@txmoose.com">kyle@txmoose.com</a>> wrote:
I love that I'm not the only person in the world still using K-9
mail on
Android :D
---
Very respectfully,
Kyle Brieden
On 27-08-2017 14:44, Jim Kinney wrote:
Bwahaha!
On August 27, 2017 1:15:34 PM EDT, Ben Coleman <<a href="mailto:oloryn@benshome.net">oloryn@benshome.net</a>>
wrote:
On 8/26/2017 04:58 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
Ah.
Remedy. Ugh.
So, it's not so much the Remedy as it is the Disease?
Ben
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</pre></blockquote><div><span><pre><pre>-- <br></pre>James P. Kinney III
Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you
gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
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