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Re: A Useful Android Advantage: GPS Spoofing.

From	Cameo <cameo@unreal.invalid>
Newsgroups	misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.mobile.android, alt.privacy
Subject	Re: A Useful Android Advantage: GPS Spoofing.
Date	2024-12-03 08:02 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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Andrew <andys@nospam.com> wrote:
> Cameo wrote on Mon, 2 Dec 2024 23:15:12 -0000 (UTC) :
> 
>>> They will have a tech team. Raise a support ticket. 
>>> 
>> This geofencing is a deliberate policy from Vanguard as the message
>> indicated when I tried to download the app from the AppStore, so I doubt a
>> tech guy would go against it, For whatever reason, they think the Apple
>> platform is not secure for their app, but Android is. Go, figure.
> 
> I do not understand the problem, but I will say on that last topic that
> only in Apple's (brilliant) advertising is an iPhone more secure than
> Android.
> 
> In the real world, the iPhone is the most exploited phone in history.
> <https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog> 
> 
> As for getting around geofencing, what I'd suggest is change the IP address
> (which is easy to do) and then change the DNS engine (also easy to do), and
> then turn off any Wi-Fi scanning (which Google devilishly auto turns on!).
> 
> Sometimes when I download apps, I have to spoof the language and other
> times I have to spoof the API level & even spoof the phone make & model.
> 
> Of course, you also turn on mock location so that you spoof your location.
> All that privacy is easy on Android - but impossible with iOS (as usual).
> 
> Apple products are only "private" in the (admittedly brilliant) Apple ads.
> 
This is too complicated to a recent convert from Android and I am thinking
of buying myself a second phone that would be Android. That would allow me
to use the best apps from either OS.

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Re: A Useful Android Advantage: GPS Spoofing. Andrew <andys@nospam.com> - 2024-12-02 04:28 +0000
  Re: A Useful Android Advantage: GPS Spoofing. Cameo <cameo@unreal.invalid> - 2024-12-02 08:30 +0000
    Re: A Useful Android Advantage: GPS Spoofing. Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2024-12-02 17:52 +0000
      Re: A Useful Android Advantage: GPS Spoofing. Cameo <cameo@unreal.invalid> - 2024-12-02 21:24 +0000
        Re: A Useful Android Advantage: GPS Spoofing. Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2024-12-02 21:58 +0000
          Re: A Useful Android Advantage: GPS Spoofing. Cameo <cameo@unreal.invalid> - 2024-12-02 23:15 +0000
            Re: A Useful Android Advantage: GPS Spoofing. Andrew <andys@nospam.com> - 2024-12-03 02:51 +0000
              Re: A Useful Android Advantage: GPS Spoofing. Cameo <cameo@unreal.invalid> - 2024-12-03 08:02 +0000
            Re: A Useful Android Advantage: GPS Spoofing. Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2024-12-03 17:39 +0000
    Re: A Useful Android Advantage: GPS Spoofing. sms <scharf.steven@geemail.com> - 2024-12-02 10:08 -0800
      Re: A Useful Android Advantage: GPS Spoofing. Andrew <andys@nospam.com> - 2024-12-02 19:22 +0000

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