What about the last two?
Are smartphones always listening?
Carson Russell
Carter Thomas
Russians Aid Assad Regime By Posting Conspiracy Theories In Message Boards
t. CNN
Andrew Watson
It might've connected through some wifi on the ship.
Still, that's obviously ignoring airplane mode.
Benjamin Moore
If I had to take a guess, those are the safe models the soldiers are allowed to use.
Ian Gonzalez
Yes there's still a signal but massively reduced in power. Data could still be sent or received very slowly a byte at a time.
Memory goes to a story of a guy saved from a cravasse by texting his gf "goodbye" she was in a different country but managed to trigger a search and rescue which happened to find him. Obviously his phone had no signal showing but there must have been enough for a few bytes of data per minute, or you know god/miracles etc.
Christopher Kelly
This is list of approved phones for the Russian Military personal. For use in the non secure areas. In the secure areas everything is prohibited of course. But since 2018 smartphones are banned for military personnel even in the non secure areas. Only simple phones from the list are allowed.
Useful info for Zig Forumsommandos and guerrilla.
Isaiah Fisher
I am surprised simple secure phones with hardware off switches for microphones and radio transmitters are not popular offer from the phones manufactures.
Or not surprised.
Nolan Sanders
It came out two years ago about the Facebook app listening all the time.
Facebook using people’s phones to listen in on what they’re saying, suggests professor
archive.fo
Cambridge Analytica whistleblower recently confirmed this is possible.
tech.slashdot.org
What if you don't have a Facebook app and don't use Siri or Google assist?
Matthew Morgan
Then only Google, Apple and NSA are listening.
Charles Rogers
In that case, I hope they had good signals from certain islands and various dinner events and good audio from various people who found it necessary to use hammers to destroy their phones.