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[x] Unsubstantiated fear mongering
[x] Absence of any specific technical details
[x] Secondhand, factually inaccurate reporting
[x] Primary source over 1 year old, and very much out of date
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Who actually upvoted this and why?
<i>If you find yourself in need of a charging station, the team behind this experiment found that most phones don’t give up information when the phone is powered off.</i><p>Most phones? Can someone provide examples of phones that offer data connectivity when the phone is powered off?
Original article at krebsonsecurity.com is over an year old:
<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2897356" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2897356</a><p>Re-submitted last week:
<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4951354" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4951354</a><p>Guess geek.com picked up this re-submission and churned an article out of it?? ;)
Agreed this is an article churn for advertisement.<p>Recently this attack was back in the news due to NSA referencing it in a mobile device security paper.<p>BTW if anyone has questions about it, feel free to ask me. I'm the guy (along with friends) who was building these kiosks and deploying them at "hacker" conferences and then gave a presentation on the matter.