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What makes Nokia so special? I havent heard of them being exempt from that "Feature"

(If that turns on you dont get a ringtone, last thing you want is to make your victim suspicious of their phone, just the battery willl run down unusually quickly)

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu Jul 17th, 2008 at 06:14:34 PM EST
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Uh, as someone who uses a Nokia phone, and whose battery has been running down suspiciously quickly, I would be curious about that as well.

/paranoid

by the stormy present (stormypresent aaaaaaat gmail etc) on Thu Jul 17th, 2008 at 08:25:35 PM EST
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I'd  take the battery out if you're going to talk to anyone and you wouldn't want "Them" to listen in

</tinfoil hat>

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Fri Jul 18th, 2008 at 03:35:51 PM EST
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The surveillance technique came to light in an opinion published this week by U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan. He ruled that the "roving bug" was legal because federal wiretapping law is broad enough to permit eavesdropping even of conversations that take place near a suspect's cell phone.

Kaplan's opinion said that the eavesdropping technique "functioned whether the phone was powered on or off." Some handsets can't be fully powered down without removing the battery; for instance, some Nokia models will wake up when turned off if an alarm is set.

Linkage from 18 months ago

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Fri Jul 18th, 2008 at 03:40:40 PM EST
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