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SeraphimLabs:
Those walmart disposable phones work rather well.

Mind you, if they want to know who is holding it all they have to do is pull the records of it and then get IDs from the people you talk to. Its not hard to fill in the gaps in a social network, even for an antisocial person.

If you ask me though, the iphone with its permanently fixed battery is a fire hazard. Lithium packs can and do explode after all, and should be required to have a method to quickly eject them in order to spare the device's contents.

Innuendo:
If you ask me though, the iphone with its permanently fixed battery is a fire hazard. Lithium packs can and do explode after all, and should be required to have a method to quickly eject them in order to spare the device's contents.
-SeraphimLabs (December 10, 2013, 04:22 PM)
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Don't get me started. I've been of the opinion for years that Apple is trying to move their entire product line to appliance-like device architectures. They'd love to move to a no-user-serviceable parts manufacturing system and if your shiny Apple product breaks (or bursts into flame) there's no repair option or if you want to add more RAM or storage space there's no upgrade path. You would have to buy a new iThing.

J-Mac:
My Droid Razr has a non-removable battery too. I just keep it under my hat  (Which, of course, is made from tin foil...   :P  )

Jim

bit:
I thought I read somewhere that if you wrap your cell phone in aluminum foil, it will keep trying to check for incoming calls and run its own battery down in a short time.
Or is that not so?
-bit (December 09, 2013, 02:14 PM)
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Cell phones are designed to reach out and find cell phone towers so they can maintain connections with the mobile network. If they can't make contact they'll keep trying to reach out over and over again until the battery dies. This is why if you are in a remote area with spotty cell phone service your battery will drain more quickly. In this aluminum foil scenario what you would want to do is turn on Airplane Mode before you wrapped your phone.
-Innuendo (December 10, 2013, 09:56 AM)
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I've never owned a cell phone so I just don't know these things.
I've read often enough about LEOs having the right to search your laptop or cell phone at will or at random...
1. How are they supposed to know you even have a cell phone if it's in your pocket and you're pulled over?
I mean, do they say, "Do you have a cell phone we can search?" and you obligingly say, "Oh yes, and I don't want you to know that, but I certainly do and it's right here in my coat pocket."
2. Is it possible to set up the cell phone so it never saves phone numbers, incoming or outgoing call recoreds, or text messages, IOW so it contains no useful information, so you can just keep the numbers written down?
Then you could change the same decimal point of number in all phone numbers by one digit up or down, a general 'rule' to keep anyone from getting accurate information out of you, for your real paper note pad of written numbers.

40hz:
1. How are they supposed to know you even have a cell phone if it's in your pocket and you're pulled over?
-bit (January 28, 2014, 02:12 AM)
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"They" don't - although with near universal ownership these days, it's a fairly  safe assumption that most people are carrying one.

I mean, do they say, "Do you have a cell phone we can search?" and you obligingly say, "Oh yes, and I don't want you to know that, but I certainly do and it's right here in my coat pocket."
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They can and do say that - and here's where it gets complicated because:

a) You do (at least for now) have the constitutional right (in the US) to refuse to talk to the police.

b) However, if you do talk to the police, you cannot legally make a false or potentially misleading statement (i.e. lie) to them. That's a criminal offence. So if you say anything at all to the police, it needs to be truthful - and is best done only with an attorney present.

A common police ploy is to trip you up by getting you to say something insignificant but obviously untrue and use that as an excuse to detain or arrest you. Without your attorney present, a court will only have your version and the police version of what you said to them. In in absence of an attorney, the police version of what was said will prevail in court.

c) Refusing to speak to the police is always your safest bet as well as your constitutional right. HOWEVER in some jurisdictions, police have begun to assert (and some judges agree) that legally refusing to talk to the police establishes grounds for suspicion (i.e. probable cause) - and in a few extreme cases, can be considered tantamount to an admission of guilt!

That's a very scary development. Fortunately, it's been largely confined to places where the police are already out of control and the courts seem reluctant to rein them in. Time will tell if it becomes more commonplace in the former 'Land of the Free.'

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Spend about 45 minutes watching this video by Regent Law professor James Duane. It may be the best time investment anybody could make in light of what's going on in the good old USA these days.



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