wish the writer of that article was less afraid of repeatedly using the phrase "he is not afraid". I don't give a fuck what he isn't afraid of.  lol

and what does his numb sense of fear  have to do with the subject of your post?

This is for you hobbyists and providers with smart phones.

The following article shows how you are at risk of being easily tracked when you don’t want to be.  However I can see an advantage; by using the same techniques you could quickly see which ladies were close by if you needed a quickie.

Michael Yon is an independent photo journalist who has covered the Afghanistan and Iraq wars since the beginning.  He has taken a few breaks to cover other conflicts.  He imbeds with the troops in combat not the generals back at headquarters.  A former Navy Seal, he is not afraid to regularly go on hot combat missions with the troops.  He is not afraid to call a spade a spade.  Several generals have been disciplined over the years because of his articles.  On the other hand, Yon has had his journalist privileges yanked several times; then he is not afraid to mingle with NGO’s and the natives to get his stories.  He has been called “the Ernie Pyle of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars”.  He has some fantastic photos in his releases.

My travels are so mundane that if anyone was following my whereabouts, they'd quickly get bored and give up.  That's when I leap into action...and go buy gas for the car.

...Airplane mode

That'll turn off the radio, wi-fi, gps, etc.

Then no one will be able to track you

and purchase it with cash. don't use real name.  it is even possible to buy an android smart phone prepaid and anonymously too.

password protect it immediately after purchase. use hobby email and never mix this new number/email with anything in civvy world.

at this point who gives a fuck if the location services is on or not.

nobody will give enough fuck about you to go to that extent of breaking into your phone, set up a tracking to track you anyway.  Unless the fbi is after you, at that point you have bigger problems to worry about than simply being tracked.

I agree a hobby phone is a great investment.

However, the regular phone in the other pocket can still be a problem.

If you turn off "location Services" the phone can not track you.  Of course that will also disable any GPS or WIFI based aps that you want to use but it IS a matter of choice.

In my iphone, its under general, then click on "location services", then click "off". After that, my GPS doesn't know where the hell I am, no facebook, news, cameras doesn't know the pin-point, or any other apps that relates to location. I even tried using my map, and it said error and can't pin-point location.

Every smartphone has this feature, just click on general (it may be called something different for each type of phone), then look for some that resembles location, then turn it off.

The airplane mode only disable your network from calls, internet, or other things, it doesn't disable your location. Not sure if it will fully work, but to guarantee that your location will be turned off, then do the suggested thing mentioned above.

It is worse. Regular smart phones you can be tracked with in a city block of where you are. If you have an Iphone you can be tracked to excactly where you stand.

know what he is talking about.  Only certain phones can lock in GPS while in airplane mode. HTC phones can but phones that use Assisted GPS can not. For example, vast majority of Motorola phones can not do gps while in airplane mode.

Even if your phone does lock into gps mode, no data can be transmitted or received during airplane mode.  
If you're still paranoid and think that there's a gps tracking it, then just take the battery out during your incall visit and claim that you were in a business meeting or something.  lol

Plus, for me, it is usually easy to tell if the phone has GPS turned on.
1) keep the power controls in front home page for quick view and one touch access.
2) The battery gets sucked out so fast it's impossible not to notice that something is on.

I highly doubt that your SO is technically skilled enough to install some tracking thing on your phone. The configuration alone takes a while to get it just right. Even more doubtful if you have a good password protection / pattern lock on it.

You can't remove the battery from an IPhone. Not unless you use a hammer. Which I tend to want to do on many occasions.

There's something strange about the article. I don't think that by just using a Facebook app, you can tell the exact location where every one of your friends who use Facebook are. Not unless they do the "check-in" thing where they purposely give their location. Something doesn't sound right here. I'm just saying because otherwise it would probably be well-known by now and everyone would be tracking/stalking each other people via iPhone.

authoritatively, all electronic devices of every kind, including smart car keys and credit cards, plus tracking chips in most tennis shoes can be tracked.  Much worse, at the press of a button in local police stations, you can be lasered from a mini death star for having sex or masturbating.

i would make a small donation to the local retired police fund and display the badge in my car if i were you.

No, but a SO might.  My SO can barely make a call on her cell phone but she has several friends that would set it up and show her how to use it. My first wife could definitely set it up and would have if smart phones had been around then.

to get access to the laser system and fry my ass.

Good to see so many self important people on here. There are literally millions of people walking around with smart phones, who are not as smart as the smart phones they are carrying.

No one gives a shit about you, unless you are a threat to something of consequence. You were tracked before smartphones.

Next paranoia!

You're right.  Letting people track your location on a Facebook account is a choice and a setting.  I never enabled it so no one can track me just through my Facebook account.

It's common sense.  Keep your location services turned off for most apps.  Don't post things on any site giving information about where you might be.  And most definitely turn off location services for pictures taken with your phone.

Not rocket science.

puts us out of communication for longer than the session.  A bigger block of AWOL time, if you will.

My older regular phone, in it's second year, devoluped the habit of having the back unclip & sometimes the battery would lose contact.  Also, my belt carrier puts it under the seatbelt & sometimes I forget to clear it.  (I was missing calls, even when not playing.)  

Where am I going with this?  My Ez Pass came with a signal blocking bag.  Isn't there also one for chip enabled credit cards too.  Could one improvise one from Al Foil?  Perhaps putting it in my foil wrapped helmet?  (Just joking, before the guys in the white coats arrive!)

There was a woman busted by her BF, who tracker her smart phone...  reported here a couple of weeks ago.
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