[LINK] mobile tracking

Andrew Thornton secretelf77 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 13 14:58:47 AEDT 2013


Um, technically it is correct that a phone cannot be tracked when it is 
switched off!
But my understanding was that if malware turns the mobile phone back on 
periodically then the phone can be tracked!! Thus taking the battery out 
would be one way to defeat this.

Andrew


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