5 ms·
What’s the point of a smart phone if you only have WiFi and no gps?
by vxNsr 5y ago
What’s the point of a smart phone if you only have WiFi and no gps?
- netr0ute 5y agoWiFi calling
- hanniabu 5y agoLinked to your wifi, paid by you
- shuckles 5y agoWiFi calling doesn’t use the device’s VPN settings? Even if it doesn’t, the poster said they also use a router VPN.
- vxNsr 5y agoThe phone number itself is linked to them in someway. Paying for your physical device in cash is meaningless if you’re gonna connect to internet you own and use credit cards, etc to operate it.
- shuckles 5y agoI think that’s definitely true in some countries but not all. For example, you can buy burner phone numbers (prepaid) in the United States without presenting ID.
- vxNsr 5y agoStill need to be in WiFi range for that… 90% of smartphone things are better on a computer, only convenience makes ppl use the smartphone, but a big part of that convenience is mobile service and GPS. Take that out and you may as well get a dumb phone and use your laptop for everything else.
- sneak 5y agoI have a separate battery powered device that does LTE backhaul and VPN and provides wifi, on which I have root and iptables/tcpdump. This way the VPN can't be bypassed on the phone, and I can inspect and filter traffic. Uber can be used by entering an address (eg one a block down from my house) with location services off. The only things I really miss out on are things that don't work at all without location, like the snap map or tinder.
- vxNsr 5y agoBased on the phone number in your bio you appear to be based in chicago, is there a reason you are so worried about gov tracking but put your real name and phone number in your bio? This just seems like all incredibly inconvenient as a training exercise but I can't think of real reason someone on hn would do this only to make it very easy to ID them in other ways.
- leesalminen 5y agoThat's likely a burner number. sneak's website states that he is out of Berlin. He got ya!
- sneak 5y ago...my SIM card is an SF number, my mailing address is in Manhattan, my domain name ends in .berlin, and I'm in precisely zero of the cities listed in this thread right now. ;)