[ale] [was] Re: Give application write access to /dev/console?
Jim Kinney
jim.kinney at gmail.com
Mon Aug 28 13:24:26 EDT 2017
Love the line about the blocking ability in the sales lit:
Please Note: EMP DEFENDER BAGS are not intended to completely block
cel
l phone transmissions. Microwave transmissions from cell phones and
Wi-
Fi equipment are not valid testing methods to determine the integrity
of a Faraday Cage.
On Mon, 2017-08-28 at 09:32 -0400, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/12/turn_off_location_services_g
> o_ahead_says_google_well_still_track_you/
>
> "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: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01IQHZS78
>
> or
>
> https://www.amazon.com/Blocking-Wisdompro-Shielding-Privacy-Protectio
> n/dp/B01HETGX00/
>
> 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:
> > 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
> > <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> 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 <http://google.com>
> > <http://google.com> email soon, too.
> >
> > On August 27, 2017 11:18:06 PM EDT, Kyle Brieden
> > <kyle at txmoose.com> 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 <oloryn at bens
> > home.net>
> > 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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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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