Replying to Avatar Jack Spirko

Thinking out loud here, if someone had an iPhone and felt they needed it for any reason as their phone. Say it was provided by an employer.

Could they in theory keep it, get an android phone, not sim it, and use it on their network and if they wanted to use it mobile just tether to the iPhone.

In this way have a small mobile device that is in theory not trackable at all?

Flaws in this system?
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58681d1e... 2y ago

"Not trackable" is not quite possible with anything with a mobile data/cell phone modem. Cell companies can query the baseband radio in all phones, even the 2G phones of yore. You can get Stingray'd/ triangulated in theory.

If you are stuck with an iPhone, there is no good way to keep it from leaking data to Apple.

To your question, yes, you can use your iPhone as a hotspot but the data goes through the iPhone. But the connection data is well known to Apple and probably a lot of snoopers. Anytime you use hotspot, there is a global registry of hotspot IPs/MAC addresses. Use a USB hotspot when possible to avoid this.

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Jack Spirko 2y ago

The type of tracking you are talking about is individual specific. You have to be targeted. If you are targeted to that level you have larger problems.

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58681d1e... 2y ago

Yes sir. Targeted by whom? And what are their resources? A low-resource bad actor can harvest much info from the scheme you are discussing.