[ale] OT verizon and other cell phone companies invade your privacy by DEFAULT

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

NB ???

I was setting settings for my verizon account on their website.  My phones are dumb phones, but I figured I crank privacy to max anyway.  My android device is a tablet with no cell phone.  Planning to root but haven't yet.

Ron


Charles Shapiro <hooterpincher at gmail.com> wrote:

>NB this is only good for about 3 months after you sign up.  And the
>"Location-based privacy settings" appear to be based on some Verizon
>software which I presume is not present on your phone if you're
>running Cyanogen or some other 3rd-party build of Android ( You DID
>jailbreak your phone and install this, didn't you?).
>
>-- CHS
>
>
>On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE)
><atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:
>> PS to prior message.  I couldn't get this to save properly in
>Firefox.
>> It may be related to my security settings, but I did have the site
>> trusted in noscript.  I had to go to IE to save my settings.  It's
>> possible that it could have worked in Firefox, but I didn't want to
>keep
>> fiddling with it.
>>
>> Ron
>>
>> On 10/11/2012 2:47 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> I just learned this on the latest security now podcast.
>>>
>>>
>> <snip>
>>
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Sent from my Android Acer A500 tablet with bluetooth keyboard and K-9 Mail.
Please excuse my potential brevity.

(To whom it may concern.  My email address has changed.  Replying to former
messages prior to 03/31/12 with my personal address will go to the wrong
address.  Please send all personal correspondence to the new address.)

(PS - If you email me and don't get a quick response, you might want to
call on the phone.  I get about 300 emails per day from alternate energy
mailing lists and such.  I don't always see new email messages very quickly.)

Ron Frazier
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linuxdude AT techstarship.com