[Noisebridge-discuss] SIMS card to CDMA

[Ben Kochie]

I don't know where you get the impression that having a SIM card GSM phone
gives you any more or less privacy than having a CDMA identified phone.
 Both phones identify themselves to the network with individual identity
numbers (IMEI) and SIM cards also contain your identity.  Swapping the SIM
to another phone will just alert them that you have switched devices.  This
is how AT&T identifies and decides to do "hey, you just dropped an iPhone
onto our network, we're going to automatically without any additional
authorization enable an iPhone specific data plan onto your account"

Basically, if you carry a mobile phone, you have a location broadcasting
device on you that can be tracked by the phone company and anyone who has
the legal authority to request this information.


On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 11:35 PM, N <jpk at pobox.com> wrote:

>  I found out by accident today that my BOOST MOBILE phone account is
> dumping all of their SIMS card phone customers and forcing us to buy *new
> *CDMA phones which presumably do not allow the batteries to be removed* *and
> thus will be just a traceable as all the modern phones out there.
>
> Is there any way I can convert my SIMS card phone to a CDMA phone?  I do
> not want to throw away my old phone nor the shards of privacy I have.
>
> Nick
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