[Star Traveler]

I think the title is misleading, because it sounds like they're saying that it can suck the saved information from your files in your phone. It's only talking about transmitted information (which is bad enough) - but no more than transmitted information.

ALSO ... I would like to note that the iPhone is a lot more secure than the Google-system ... :-) ...

[Star Traveler]

AND ... you should note that you can easily prevent this from just “automatically” happening by erasing prior WiFi hotspots from your list and/or don’t have them connect automatically (by a setting you may have).

[rawhide]

Actually this drone cannot not steal from me as my phone is not a feature phone, just a plain old dumb phone. I even have my location setting turned off.

[moose07]

They are going to be reading a lot of Free Republic at that conference.
Lol.
Happy reading. :)

[Marcella]

My phone could have internet if I wanted it, but I didn't get that service. I only have a cell phone to have one in the car if I need it and only a few family have the number.

I don't like phones to start with - a phone call just interrupts what I'm doing and my home phone is unlisted but I still get the robot calling sales people. I never answer that phone until the caller starts to leave a message and if I know that person, family or two friends who have the number, I'll answer, otherwise, I'm not. Sales people seldom leave a message, they just hang up.

My cell phone is on but the NSA won't find me anywhere suspicious and if I thought they wanted to find my location, I'd turn it off and deep six it somewhere disgusting.

I'm really old so I lived when no one knew where anyone was if he/she was out of sight. Cars were cars and not moving computers. If you wanted information, you had an encyclopedia to look it up. There was also something called “books”. They had a front and back and pages in between. You just opened the book and read it and you knew you had it because it was on a shelf in a bookcase.

We also had something called, “records”. They were round and you put them on a machine and it played the music on the record. I remember the first TV set. That was something - shows and news on a screen. That was the beginning of hell on wheels as more electronic gadgets began to appear every day it seemed and now we can't move without something electronic following us.

I'm not sure we are better off than my earlier days.

[tomkat]

Steal Away !

              lol

Oh, and FUNSA

(check yer list .. i'm already on it, ya stasi maggots)

[Secret Agent Man]

i doubt they can. i don’t have a smartphone. plus i don’t do any of that kind of stuff from that phone. plus it’s always off unless i am talking to someone, which is almost never.

[JoeProBono]

[Organic Panic]

Ahhh big deal. The NSA gets ALL the information, not just transmitted. Get with the times.

[upchuck]

This is nothing more than a fancy twist on the classic "man in the middle" data scam.

They have taken the shadowy character in the van in the parking lot of Mickey D's and replaced him with a drone flying overhead.

Note that if you are writing/receiving email the man in the middle can intercept and read the data coming from/to your device because email is sent in clear text (not encrypted).

But if you access a secure web site, say, your bank, the man in the middle looses out. Because the data is encrypted before it leaves you device. The man in the middle can read your data but it will be gibberish to him.

[null and void]

[Been out of town/touch for a while, expect LOTS of pings today while I get caught up.]

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[AppyPappy]

Good. Maybe the drone can pick up the hot dog buns for me.