<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 2:28 PM, mok-kong shen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mok-kong.shen@t-online.de" target="_blank">mok-kong.shen@t-online.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">Am 04.10.2016 um 01:32 schrieb Ray Dillinger:<br>
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I must confess that I've given up on mobile phone security<br></blockquote></span></blockquote><div>..... </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Sometimes opting out is a reasonable choice.<br>
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But location tracking is also feasible even in case of a stupid<br>
mobile phone.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yet the location of a POT is physical and fixed.<br><br>Perhaps a phone with a removable battery. <br>Location services for emergencies are essential.<br>Location services that invade life not.<br><br></div><div>My old flip phone has no GPS but it has an easy </div><div>to access battery compartment. It would be quite easy</div><div>to make an adapter with a switch. Cell tower spoofing is</div><div>part of law enforcement's tool kit so it seems that cell tower </div><div>location logs could be called into question. </div><div><br></div><div>The dumb thing about smart phones is the battery life.<br>I often shut mine down as a result.<br>In meetings and class rooms I use OFF rather than a silent mode.<br>Reception is so often terrible that the phone is hunting it's little brain </div><div>away so off is a win for battery life. </div><div><br></div><div>On the security side of things we should watch the impact of </div><div>the storm on the US east coast. Reliable communications are critical </div><div>for safety. Location services can be valuable....<br>Watch the legal process -- propose laws or pose questions that manage and audit</div><div>data access by law enforcement. Documentation, need, criteria, misuse is well balanced</div><div>by punishment. Extra ordinary events seem to be the gate for abuse of process.<br>Process should facilitate good and necessary behavior and block the bad individuals</div><div>that have some keys and appear to be in authority.<br>Communication from shelters, is it facilitated or are shelters warehoused individuals in limbo.<br>SMS if nothing else should just work.<br><br>Today I heard that some DOT regulations ware being suspended in FL, GA & SC.</div><div>That is wrong what I want to hear is DOT regulations have a plan for emergencies.<br>i.e. We ( a governor in this case) are invoking these planned and documented emergency </div><div>rules based on documented criteria to facilitate the transport and delivery of emergency goods. </div><div>It is a subtle mind set change that I believe is necessary. </div><div><br></div><div>Encryption of first-responder and emergency management communications. Was encryption used, necessary, reliable, did it hinder or help? Were these communications logged and audited or does secrecy hide details necessary to plan for the next event? Compartments? Agencies?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"> T o m M i t c h e l l</div></div>
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