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AndyTiedye

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2. Only if the Cellphone is Turned On

Reply to rogerashton (Original post)

Sun Oct 19, 2014, 05:41 PM

Oct 2014

If the phone is in airplane mode or turned off it isn't receiving or transmitting anything.

If they somehow got some malware onto your phone to make it stay on when it was supposed to be off, the battery drain would give this away pretty quickly (and removing the battery as suggested above would defeat even that).

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If you have a cell phone, "they" know where you are. [View all] rogerashton Oct 2014 OP

The only way to defeat the tracking of a cellular telephone Jenoch Oct 2014 #1

Only if the Cellphone is Turned On AndyTiedye Oct 2014 #2

Nope. Jenoch Oct 2014 #4

If the Phone Has Been Infected With Malware that Prevents it from Really Shutting Down, Yes AndyTiedye Oct 2014 #5

I've told this story before HeiressofBickworth Oct 2014 #3

GPS Location info for Cellular 911 Callers is Required AndyTiedye Oct 2014 #6