100 sats \ 1 reply \ @jeff 9 Apr \ on: Pixel 8 can be tracked whilst powered off security
Surely it's the last place it phoned-home before the battery died.
A phone can't die, move, then phone-home. At least not independently. That would be a breakthrough in physics.
Perhaps, you need some other device (or even the smart-charger), nearby and plugged in, that some how pings an antenna on the phone.
Like, imagine the phone is dead in the middle of the Saraha dessert, no other devices around. That's very different than if it's surrounded by a bunch of other surveillance tech that could "detect" the pixel-8, and rat on it's location.
I think, like you say, the issue is that there are millions of google flavoured android devices that can "rat" on the Pixel 8's location
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