09-29-2021, 12:39 AM
(09-27-2021, 11:03 AM)nelstomlinson Wrote: Doesn't spy was stating the case way too strongly. As you say, merely using the cell towers means giving away your location at the least.
VoLTE will apparently be the only way to use the cell towers at some time in the future. It would be nice to use the cell towers without using Google or Apple.
Digital communications are inherently insecure, and broadcast communications are inherently insecure, but it would be nice to cut the commercial spies out of the loop.
In the 90s when I didn't have the money for full service cellular I took incoming calls through a pager which either sent me a SMS like message or a callback number and voicemail. I then had the choice of using my mobile phone(I had 60 min a month) and timing my calls with a stopwatch and writing my usage in a call log or calling back on an amateur radio repeater where every ham in the area would hear the call. It was totally private in both modes to location and truthfully as private to snoop-able content as using AMPS(1G) which was analog audio on 900mhz band at the time and just slightly obfuscated duplex.
I guess it is also about learning radio(and radio-telephone) discipline, I learned to keep over the air communications brief, on topic, and vague toward personal information from military, aviation, and emergency services radio usage.