[ale] OT verizon and other cell phone companies invade your privacy by DEFAULT

[Charles Shapiro]

NB is an abbreviation for the Latin "Nota Bene", which means "Note Well".

-- CHS


On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE)
<atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:
> NB ???
>
> I was setting settings for my verizon account on their website.  My phones are dumb phones, but I figured I crank privacy to max anyway.  My android device is a tablet with no cell phone.  Planning to root but haven't yet.
>
> Ron
>
>
> Charles Shapiro <hooterpincher at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>NB this is only good for about 3 months after you sign up.  And the
>>"Location-based privacy settings" appear to be based on some Verizon
>>software which I presume is not present on your phone if you're
>>running Cyanogen or some other 3rd-party build of Android ( You DID
>>jailbreak your phone and install this, didn't you?).
>>
>>-- CHS
>>
>>
>>On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE)
>><atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:
>>> PS to prior message.  I couldn't get this to save properly in
>>Firefox.
>>> It may be related to my security settings, but I did have the site
>>> trusted in noscript.  I had to go to IE to save my settings.  It's
>>> possible that it could have worked in Firefox, but I didn't want to
>>keep
>>> fiddling with it.
>>>
>>> Ron
>>>
>>> On 10/11/2012 2:47 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>
>>>> I just learned this on the latest security now podcast.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>
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> (PS - If you email me and don't get a quick response, you might want to
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