Add Q&A about cell tracking and silent sms
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<li><a href="#default-connections">Which connections do the OS and
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<li><a href="#default-connections">Which connections do the OS and
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bundled apps make by default?</a></li>
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bundled apps make by default?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#cellular-tracking">What does GrapheneOS do about cellular
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tracking and silent SMS?</a></li>
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<h2 id="cellular-tracking">
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<a href="#cellular-tracking">What does GrapheneOS do about cellular tracking and
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silent SMS?</a>
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<p>GrapheneOS always considers the network to be hostile. Merely getting a silent SMS is
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not a good indicator of being targeted by your cell carrier, police or government
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because <em>anyone on the cell network can send them</em>. Cellular triangulation will
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happen regardless of whether or not SMS texts are being sent or recieved by the phone,
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and they don't have to even be a silent SMS; it wouldn't be much different than
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recieving an unsolicited spam SMS!</p>
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<p>Activating airplane mode will fully disable the cellular radio transmit and recieve
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capabilities, which will prevent your phone from being reached from the cellular
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network and stop your carrier (and anyone impersonating them to you) from tracking the
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device via the cell network. On currently supported devices, the code for Wi-Fi and
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cellular radios is separately sandboxed, and while airplane mode is on, the phone may
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still be connected and used on WiFi. MAC Addresses on Wi-Fi are randomized.</p>
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<footer>
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<a href="/"><img src="https://grapheneos.org/logo.png" width="512" height="512" alt=""/>GrapheneOS</a>
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<a href="/"><img src="https://grapheneos.org/logo.png" width="512" height="512" alt=""/>GrapheneOS</a>
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