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When you peel off the samsung battery sticker, you find another sticker consisting some kind of transmitter which apparently has no purpose. The secret behind this hidden transmitter which is being famous, is that samsung put this in the battery to track you and steal your phone data including your private pictures and internet activity. Please watch this video and share your knowledge. I am trying to find the truth.. Thanks
 
It's the NFC (near field communication) antenna.
You use it to scan things like ads on certain billboards to be taken to their website etc.
You can turn it on/off in settings, wireless and networks, more (although yours will no longer work since you dismantled it lol)
No tinfoil hat required :thumbsupdroid:
You should really do some research before posting scaremongering youtube vids that some idiots might believe and void their warranty
 
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Oh, ok, Funkylogik. No big deal, eh?

What exactly do you mean "You use it to scan things like ads on certain billboards to be taken to their website etc."?
Or
Why do they need a different antenna/transmitter to send info to "their website"? I smell bs. I've got a GS4, and that battery had a transmitter on it as well. Works fine without it. Who cares if Samsung loses this connection to their data, if in fact, that's what it's for?

I've come to expect the worst from the back room deals between corporations and our security agencies, and these expectations have been met time and time again. If you know what this transmitter is for, (which you don't because your explanation is bunk), then please elaborate why there's a second RF antenna for all these phones--other than the nonsense you already put forth.

Anyone who has a real explanation, please share it.
 
It is used for Google Pay (formerly Google wallet) where you physically tap a payment device at a retail counter and it performs just like you swiped your debit or credit card. It is a separate antenna because it doesn't sent a signal far at all, as I said, you have to physically tap your phone to the payment device. There are other uses as well, like tapping your phone to another phone to exchange phone or contact information.
 
If you're predisposed to believing that retailers are in league with national security agencies and the Federal Government has nothing better to do than to track you buying toilet paper at Walgreens then nothing that we can say will convince you otherwise.

NFC itself has been around since 2004, I've had and used it since 2012. It's not new.

It's a multimodal communication system for very short range.

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/near-field-communication.htm

If you don't like it, don't use it, along with not using Bluetooth, wifi and mobile data, all of which fall into the same category - the only differences being frequency, power, range, ease of use, and security models.

And funky said nothing about sending data to their website. He said "taken to their website" and no, it's not a big deal.

I was eating lunch with my sister recently - she picked up the ketchup bottle, pointed to a funny square pattern and asked me what that was.

I pointed my cell phone camera at it, used my QR code scanner, and was taken to the ketchup website (Hunt's or Heinz, I forgot) and we had a good time reading about the history of ketchup.

At no time did the ketchup bottle capture information and transmit it to the evil overlords.

An NFC tag is the same exact thing but it uses radio instead of light and a camera.

The reason that the antenna is sometimes a sticker on a battery is because it's cheaper to make that way. It's a loop of wire, not a heavy duty antenna like the others in your phone.
 
No big deal amigo. :)

I agree that personal security is important, don't use things that you don't understand.

The only way to fight misinformation and scare mongering is with information.

After that, it's a horse-water-drink situation. ;) :)

What I can't figure out is uploading a personal video to YouTube - a Google product - where nothing is really anonymous and complain that you've found a mysterious security intrusion.

A two second search - another Google product - would have revealed what that was, what it is for, and where to find the on/off switch (yes, it's right there in settings).

No wild theories, no youtubes, no revealing discoveries that your phone still works if you remove the NFC antenna required.

You like NFC, use it.

You don't, go into settings and turn it off.

This is about as big a deal as the headphone jack.
 
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One more thing. For the NSA or whatever to gain any kind of info (if it was possible) through NFC from your phone, their sonic screwdriver would have to be virtually touching your phone, it really is that low powered an antenna.
I'm sorry and I don't mean to ridicule you, I don't even want you to take down the vid as I've just shared it online.
I just think you should be careful about giving out misleading info, especially when it's dangerous.
I'll try n find that vid of what happens when a phone battery is pierced, its not pretty....
 
Lmao aye OP youd better get that shiney hat on mate and listen for the copters :D
Lol Emon are we allowed to be so facetious on here or is it a gray area.
I'm enjoying it lol. In need of some light relief tonight ;)
 
I think that we can't tell the difference between what various people think and that it's ok to attack ideas but not the people who have them.

Otherwise, you're going to be the same as people that you don't want to be like.
 
Long before Snowden dropped Greenwald the bombshells, many people assumed that our data was being used in unlawful ways. But heaven forbid you made that claim before the facts were published and undeniable.

Before those facts were undeniable, loads of posters would reply that it was "just my imagination." When the president said it was "only the metadata" (as if that was harmless or justified to begin with), very few if any ever said "you're right to be distrustful. They are probably lying to us." As it turns out, the truth is far more idicting than my imagination every was.

I might be overreacting to an NFC antenna, but my "overreaction" has, in hindsight, been an "appropriate action" in light of the facts revealed long after those actions. If this is nothing, so be it. I will live without the hardware for NFC.

BFD.
 
I'm sorry to butt in this late into the conversation but it's a little ridiculous to resort to peeling batteries (how do you even find yourself doing that in the first place?) to see if you're being tracked when nobody needs to put a physical transmitter on your device to track you. If there's anything to worry about it's things like CarrierIQ, not the NFC antenna.
 
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Long before Snowden dropped Greenwald the bombshells, many people assumed that our data was being used in unlawful ways. But heaven forbid you made that claim before the facts were published and undeniable.

Before those facts were undeniable, loads of posters would reply that it was "just my imagination." When the president said it was "only the metadata" (as if that was harmless or justified to begin with), very few if any ever said "you're right to be distrustful. They are probably lying to us." As it turns out, the truth is far more idicting than my imagination every was.

I might be overreacting to an NFC antenna, but my "overreaction" has, in hindsight, been an "appropriate action" in light of the facts revealed long after those actions. If this is nothing, so be it. I will live without the hardware for NFC.

BFD.
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Thank you for sharing your opinions.

If you need help finding the setting in your phone to turn off NFC please ask.
 
EarlyMon said:
I think that we can't tell the difference between what various people think and that it's ok to attack ideas but not the people who have them.

Otherwise, you're going to be the same as people that you don't want to be like.
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Totally understood and fair mate and I apologise to the OP if I've crossed that line. I probably have views that you would find rediculous without finding ME rediculous so I apologise :thumbsupdroid:
 
Lol this is funny. If you read the manual that came with the phone, they actually tell you where the NFC transmitter is. It's alsi used fot the features of your phone likr S Beam. Lol. It's not like it was hiding.
 
chanchan05 said:
Lol this is funny. If you read the manual that came with the phone, they actually tell you where the NFC transmitter is. It's alsi used fot the features of your phone likr S Beam. Lol. It's not like it was hiding.
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But you can imagine what it's like thinking you've discovered something shady and wanting to share it with 'the world"? :D
 
I remember someone telling me that if someone hid the formula for the cure of cancer in either a user manual or the terms and conditions of anything, no one would find it.
 
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