Your iPhone, Android, Tablet, Car, smart TV, or any other “Smart” device has huge vulnerabilities. Your phone is not the place to store private information, and if you think you are not being tracked by your phone, tablet, smartwatch, or even your car, you are sadly mistaken. Shutting off features does nothing but limit them to hackers and governments.
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(MSN)”Apple makes it a point to say that any Journal entries are encrypted when your iPhone is locked and stored on iCloud and that you can turn off access to any of these data points as you please. However, they stop short of saying that they don’t collect any of your data through this feature. That said, all of this data is already created on your iPhone: Journal is just accessing it.”
It used to be you could pull the battery on older phones, but now I believe they have Non-Volatile memory chips that store memory even when the phone is off. This is also where hackers and governments can turn your phone back on if the battery is in it. But that non-volatile memory may store enough memory and power to ping satellites, so today, if you are on the run, the best thing to do is smash your phone.
Yes, I know. I just told criminals, but you forget they already know this. For instance, with these new keys, you have to be very wary about who is near you when you hit unlock. With keyless starts, that “Unlock” signal also gives criminals near you the opportunity to grab the unit’s code. So now they can not only unlock your car but drive away with it, too.
