[RobertClark]

Doesnt sleep mode inhibit all phone signal communications? That was the whole purpose.

Not necessarily, although that is what we are being told. I have detected radio signals from my phone while in sleep mode (in a lab, of course). Not even removing the battery will interrupt all potential for transmission and / or recording, as there are small batteries on the boards themselves.

[Bobalu]

People should remember that the NSA has its own silicon chip fab....they didn’t spend those billions for nothing.

Integrated circuit chips are black boxes and lots of mischief goes on inside black boxes.

[cuban leaf]

I declined an update to youtube on my phone because it said right there in black and white that one of the new “features” is that the camera and microphone would be enabled to hear and see without your knowledge. I paraphrase.

[Jumper]

That is why you have to also push the on/off button several times to drain any power remaining in the device.

[DManA]

That is the first time I've heard THAT one. (Not doubting you)

Not even removing the battery will interrupt all potential for transmission and / or recording, as there are small batteries on the boards themselves.

[FreedomOfExpression]

Not even removing the battery will interrupt all potential for transmission and / or recording, as there are small batteries on the boards themselves.

Do you know for a fact that there are small batteries on the circuit boards in a smart phone? If so, how did you come to know it?