Collaborate Disseminate
I am trying to decide whether to keep this new fitness tracker that I bought for $70. Great deal – until I found out that I’m paying for it with my personal data.
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I have an old smartphone that I want to use only as a media player/portable radio/voice recorder. It doesn’t have a SIM card and it’s not connected to WiFi. I am curious however can the files on it still be potentially accessed somehow? I know that a phone can be tracked with its IMEI number and according to this site – www.imei.info – you can “know such data as: the network and country from which your device originally comes from; warranty information ; date of purchase; carrier information; system version; device specification and more details information.” For the “system version” part, it seems to me that you have to have a pretty thorough access to the phone and possibly able to read the files on it; is this so or is this impossible?
Thanks in advance.
P.S. I read these topics – Can Android phone running without SIM card be tracked (localized) by police?, Track an Android phone through its IMEI, but they don’t answer this exact question.
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Can someone who knows my IMEI number compromise my mobile and access my social media accounts when I am connected to their Wi-Fi?
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I’m curious if SIM card can be “personalized” to operate only in the specified mobile equipment in addition to usual PIN security. So the SIM extracted from “legitimate” phone and placed into arbitrary one won’t reveal it’s data.
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I created a twitter account and used 10minuteemail, then twitter said my account was having automated behaviour, so I searched a temporary fake number to use but for the sake of lazyness I just put my own phone number. I remo… Continue reading I used 10minutemail and my own phone number, is there a risk?
A study finds risky apps leave mobile devices open to SMS denial-of-service attack and remote SIM card rooting. Continue reading Mobile Applications Leak Device, Location Data
A study finds risky apps leave mobile devices open to SMS denial-of-service attack and remote SIM card rooting. Continue reading Mobile Applications Leak Device, Location Data