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Then you go home, open you laptop and communicate with people over the internet. What's the difference.
by abluecloud 11y ago
Then you go home, open you laptop and communicate with people over the internet. What's the difference.
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoYour phone knows your location.
- eterm 11y agoYour phone is your location.
- Jtsummers 11y agoIf the phone is powered on it allows for (potential) pervasive location tracking. Your communications can be listened to whether mobile or a home computer, but all that using your home computer reveals (by using it, not the contents) is that you're home. Using your mobile reveals that you're at Starbucks or on I-40 stuck in traffic, or that you're frequently connected to the same tower as some other persons of interest. And that's what can be known before observing the actual contents of the communication.
- dredmorbius 11y agoIn addition to other responses (particularly location data): VPN or Tor usage from a desktop is, for now at least, more viable from desktop than mobile. Desktops can also have camera(s) and / or mics disable more readily than phones.