Re: Completely OT: Mobil electronics hacks

> 1. My new android (not new but recently upgraded) likes to turn itself
> on while in my backpack and since the carrier has started streaming
> ads even in "screen saver" mode this drains my battery fast (I went to
> sleep with 95% and woke up with a dead/drained phone).
I'd quit every relation to said carrier asap. I wouldn't tolerate something like this for one
minute. But alternatively you could set a code to unlock android, which is pretty much doing nothing
after booting, without it being unlocked.

> 2. The MTA (aka MYC subway) has started using tap and go far payment
> (OMNY Card) that looks onto the NFC "device" it can find and not
> necessarily your OMNY Card for example it looked onto a credit card I
> had never used in connection to the MTA and took my fare from that not
> my OMNY card several times now.   I have partially solved this by
> putting a mini faraday cage (tin foil in paper towel) in my wallet
> between the out side and the cards but still happens once in a while.
Recent Android versions have a quick button to turn NFC on/off.
I only turn mine on before consciously paying for something.

Regards,
Mathias
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