People with esims are just gonna assume they aren’t being tracked. 😩
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Submitted 13 hours ago by QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz to memes@sopuli.xyz
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Kolanaki@pawb.social 13 hours ago
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Still tracks you when you connect to wifi.
tackleberry@thelemmy.club 6 hours ago
Well, if you were born in 2013 and later, there is a dude named Edward Snowden who told people about this but they called him names. This is not new. Anonymity on the internet has become a fantasy today.
hydroxycotton@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Also if you existed before 2013, Ed’s revelations are somehow still relevant.
TehBamski@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
This PSA has the same vibes of the late great Apple Ads 4chan made back in the day.
Exhibit A:
knowyourmeme.com/memes/ipad-spoofing/
Exhibit B:
IratePirate@feddit.org 1 hour ago
Ooooh, that brings back memories! Don’t forget the iPad can be used for scales exploit. That was also hilarious.
Speculater@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Or old-school “Household Hacker.”
bigchungus@piefed.blahaj.zone 13 hours ago
Even without a SIM card you’re not much less trackable. The phone still maintains a connection with the cellular towers for emergency services, sometimes even when it’s fully powered off. The best way to prevent this is to remove the battery.
slazer2au@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
sometimes even when it’s fully powered off
How when there is no power going to the mobile transceiver?
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
Because “off” is not really off in most mobile devices, more like a deep hibernate. Conveniently you can also no longer remove the batteries from any modern phone.
kautau@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I am genuinely surprised at the amount of people in the comments who don’t realize this is satire
papalonian@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
🤓 that sim card would still work, the smaller sim cards are the same chip just in a smaller plastic housing, you can cut them to size and some of them (like the one in the photo) come with premade lines as guides
Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio 6 hours ago
Thatsthejoke.trd
Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 12 hours ago
SIM cards? what is this, 2014?
probablymissing@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
not every phone has this “esim” black magic witchcraft in it today. i got my phone in 2024, and i’ve got a sim card, the way it should be. esim supporters should be burned at the stake for their heresy!
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i’m kidding, of couse. i don’t support burnings anymore!
Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 12 hours ago
the joke was this is a picture of what looks like an iphone 6, released in 2014
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
Functionally, AFAIK there’s nothing really stopping older devices from being updated to use e-sim. They work just fine for emergency service calls, the little chip doesn’t matter that much to the underlying hardware
possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
shit i just use two physical sim cards so that way i can easily swap between my european number and american number
AlexLost@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
This is deliciously evil
confusedwiseman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
So what do I do with the eSIM?
kylie_kraft@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
put yourr phone in the microwave on high for 30 seconds, it wipes eSIM
confusedwiseman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
Bonus super fast wireless charging!!!
CameronDev@programming.dev 12 hours ago
Drill press
saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
This also stops those pesky scam calls!
snek_boi@lemmy.ml 12 hours ago
I like how they’re ”already” tracking me. I’m still trying to understand how the meaning changes with and without the quotations, but it certainly feels important or something
thesohoriots@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
“You remove the SIM card and… yes?”
“Can I cook mine?”
“No, you must eat it raw.”
lurch@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
lol, they can track the IMEI. the phone component still works without the SIM, for example to make emergency calls. that means it is still able to connect to cell towers and you can still triangulate it’s position to some degree.
I’m afraid, you’ll have to cut the phone in half instead. can’t be helped.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 11 hours ago
They can track my phone, not me. I don’t need it on me at all times. I almost considered a landline but they cost a fortune so I decided against it.
Reyali@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
US Mobile offers landlines for $10/mo (link). I can’t speak to that service but I’ve been on a cell plan with them for almost a year and my only complaint has been some weirdness on early auto-payments, but once that was sorted out everything was fine. I’ve referred several people who also seem to be happy with the service as well.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
Nah. Rip out the antennae assembly. The phone might be a bit complain-y about it (or fail some kind of pre-boot check and not boot)? never done it to find out though.
essell@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
It’s been a few years since I was inside iPhones regularly but back then… All of them had a physical antenna or two which plugged into a board on a little coax connection.
Unplug those, no reception, phone just assumes it’s in a dead zone.
WiFi would still work if enabled. Which probably means they could find you via WiFi even if switched off in the current world