Although I seldom turn my cell phone on unless I am about to make a call, I realize that
it can nevertheless be pinged. One solution would be to remove the battery but that's a bit of a hassle.
This morning I put the phone in my aluminum briefcase and called the number.
It rang.
Next, I put it in my fireproof file cabinet and then called it.
It rang again.
I drove into town and bought a 25-foot box of aluminum foil at the Grizzly Grocery for $1.40. Back home, I cut out a 6 by 6-inch square, wrapped it around the phone, and called it.
NO ANSWER.
Hmmm ...
Let's see: The box of foil will yield 100 6-inch-square pieces, at
a cost of $0.014 each to protect 100 cell phones. If I buy the boxes by the case, at a discount, and sell each cell phone protector for 99 cents, that will be a profit margin of, uh ...
Labels: avoid cell phone tracking, cell phone case, how to stop your cell phone from being pinged, protect your cell phone, wrap your cell phone in aluminum foil
Privacy blog post by JJ Luna at 10:36 AM
