"The 'Presidential alerts': they are capable of accessing the E911 chip in your phones - giving them full access to your location, microphone, camera and every function of your phone. This not a rant, this is from me, still one of the leading cybersecurity experts. Wake up people!" https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1047585232831041536 http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-ne...those-cell-phone-presidential-alerts_10042018
Sure enough, IF they could issue alerts to my privacy one (old model)-the smartphone did pick it up. Prefer dumb, simple to pull plug, and less noisy-less distracting old phones. Pain to get signal a lot of times and needs charging a lot more often, but at least it's pretty well bug proof.
Reading through the tweets I saw some users responding with the following. VERIFY: The 'presidential alert' cannot access your phone's location, camera or microphone https://www.king5.com/mobile/articl...s-location-camera-or-microphone/281-600992916
After Snowden how can anyone say 100% these tinfoil hatters are absolutely wrong? I can't. I can be dubious but I can't shut the door on any claim of spying.
My neighbor, who has a heart monitor, was driving his car when the alert happened on the device they gave him for the monitor software. The device began vibrating in his pocket and he thought he was having a heart attack and dying. He pulled over so fast he was almost hit from behind. Never imagined that it might happen to a neighbor of all things, but I was concerned about this kind of thing when I heard it was planned. Still seems like a bad idea to me. Hearing it from a neighbor was eerily close to home honestly. Not as eery as bad privacy practices from the U.S. government would be if that is true...
That is not cool. And questions what are they trying to do by making heart monitors that can be directly affecting a patient in that way?
