[LINK] mobile tracking

[Ivan Trundle]

On 13 Nov 2013, at 2:58 pm, Andrew Thornton <secretelf77 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> 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.

>From my reading of the reports, the implication is that the ‘off’ state of a phone is not simply determined. With more complex phones, either malware of other means are able to give the impression that the phone is ‘off’, in spite of some vital circuitry being powered (such as the clock etc).

The inability of some phones to remove the battery is one impediment - but in practice, how many people power down their phone and then remove the battery, to be absolutely sure?

iT