Sorry for mention of trade marks. I am interested in devices with such characteristics cpu speed, memory, battery, weight and UIX, applications that will be useful for me and other not programmers, some good practices.
March 30, 2020 5:36 PM, "Leo Famulari" <l...@famulari.name> wrote: > It's not related to Guix, but places like retail shops, banks, etc host > phone location tracking equipment that is used to target advertising. > > On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 11:33:10AM +0000, zna...@disroot.org wrote: > >> Hello, dear Guix hackers! I want to understand how they could get my phone >> number. >> >> Last week I've visited a bank and spent there an hour waiting they make a >> payment to custom. >> I had Redmi Mi 9T smartphone in my hands, Android 10 QKQ 1.190825.002, >> MIUI Global 11.0.4 Stable 11.0.4.0 (QFJMIXM) >> >> Waiting in the bank, I uploaded one video on YouTube channel on which >> my phone is in the contacts. >> 4g connection was so slow that I spent time waiting percent by percent of >> uploading. >> >> I use mobile operator Beeline. In Russia I have no any operator I can >> believe, >> but this is less problematic from all, cause its managers are not oligarchs. >> >> After two hours I came back home I received two calls from different >> money credit companies >> (just like "fast money", "take money and go away that way") >> and one SMS from another company. >> >> And the next day three calls more and two SMS with offers of money credit. >> >> Those were robots autocallers. >> >> I'd never used that phone number where I've got calls, and never took >> credits, >> never gave that my phone number anywhere >> (cause I usually use another phone number). >> >> This case shows not free software and not free hardware adds bothers. >> >> This may be so: >> >> 1) They can track phones with Geo data (but I have switched off Geo location) >> 2) They may invade bank workers phones with viruses that >> connect with clients phones, get clients phone numbers and send this info. >> 3) They may track mobile operator data (4g) from antennas >> 4) Also the same mobile operator may sell info which client locate near that >> antenna near the bank >> 5) May be some of my applications does track me. >> >> How do you think? >> >> Do you use Telegram, Whatsapp? >> >> Is it comfortable to use jami, tox chat?
