Comments by "" (@lyfandeth) on "How Big Tech Finds Your Exact Location -- Even When You're Hiding It" video.

Actually Rob, a number of Lenovo laptops have built in GPS hardware. It is not always obvious to the user, but the internal GPS very definitely is there and can be manually turned on to show location or pass it off to other applications.
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@robbraxmantech AFAIK you are right, but I still like having a hardware kill switch. Reminds me of a secured facility where I worked. Each desktop had a covered Big Red Switch, and if anyone thought the LAN had been penetrated, the protocol was to punch the button, which triggered a guillotine cutter on a (replaceable) segment of all the data lines.
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If you set your camera to not record location, do you still need to scrub EXIF or is that not recorded in the first place, because you turned it off?
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@robbraxmantech I took my first look at exdif data today and really stunned by how much more than time & location are in there. WOW.
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@stevejohanson4133 Nope. My laptop actually has a hardware switch to kill all the radios.
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You can also safely use Garmin GPSes when traveling. At least all the older models had a "nuke" mode, since they were going to military users. IIRC you hold down two spots on the display while restarting, and the device wipes everything back to factory default. Totally.
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There are two different things. One is GPS spoofing, where you use a transmitter to overpower the real signal. But that's the only way to feed data into the ANTENNA. Feeding false data into a GPS by other means would mean physically hacking into the hardware.
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