Can you find a persons location with a text message to their phone?
If the question is “Is it possible to find a person’s location with a text message to their phone”, the answer is NO.I believe this comes from some confusion on the matter.In order for telecom operators to get the updated location of a cellular phone, they “ping” that phone (as correctly stated by David Fred ) and this ping is done by sending an SMS type 0, or silent SMS.On doing so, the target phone replies updating its position so that, if someone is able to intercept that update by using cell network core vulnerabilities, then that someone will be able to read that update and thus, know the exact position of the phone.What Eric Arthur said is only valid in the U.S., where cell phone numbers have a sort of “area” code. It is not valid elsewhere.What Edward Anderson said is correct and, more generally, refers to any app that has to be already installed on the target phone and can react to a text message by providing its location. There are plenty of those apps and you can find them in each app store, depending on the phone brand.But, I assume, the question relates more to the possibility to track a phone without the owner being aware of being tracked and, of course, the answer is yes (not just with a silent text message but with a silent text message and some access to the SS7 core network).Last but not least, as Kian Bayno wrote, about 50% of attack vectors are delivered through SMS. So by hacking a phone with an SMS it is possible to install malicious code that can, in return provide the attacker not only its position but also much more than that.It doesn’t matter if the GPS is on or off. If GPS data are not available, cellular network deduce phone’s location by triangulating the distance with all cell towers nearby.In other words, any phone that connects to a cellular network can be tracked/tapped, regardless of its brand and sending a silent SMS is a way to update its location.The big problem of silent SMS is that they can be used to cause a DoS attach against the phone, as proved on a research paper of the University of Pretoria a while ago.More details, risks and how to protect yourself on our website.
Can someone find my exact location if I am chatting on WhatsApp and if I don't share my location with that person?
No.Unless you are accidentally also sharing your location some other way.Of course, make sure you do not allow permissions for WhatsApp to have your location.I had a friend who forgot that their Facebook Messenger was sending out their location with every message. Easy to turn off, but he forgot. Here's how to make sure it's off.Sometimes, photos have GPS info about where they were taken. A lot of online services get rid of GPS info automatically. If you're feeling paranoid, don't send photos. Read this article for how to secure your photos.Go check your settings in Google Maps. Make sure you're not sharing your location there. Sometimes, I share my location with my girlfriend so that we can meet up in crowded places. But it's worth making sure it's off and even so it's only share able to specific people. You can't randomly be sending out Blue Dot for everyone to see.
How do I track location through Facebook Messenger?
Facebook is the top social networking website and everyone from all around the world are using a Facebook account. Whereas Facebook has its greatest advantages like making new contacts with people that are really difficult to reach and making our lives rather more easier, it also has some disadvantages like privacy exploitation, and redundant activities.Today, people are really interested about tracking somewhat people in Facebook by means of app that are especially designed for this purpose. There are some best Facebook spy tracker apps that allow its user to track the activities of the chosen target on Facebook. Today, we are going to provide you, the simplest and one of the best Facebook spy Software – TiSpy Parental Monitoring Software.Tispy is the most powerful Facebook tracker app. This software is available for Android platforms. Another best feature of this software is that people can access this software from both smartphones and computers.This software is not only lets users to track in Facebook but in other social medias too like Whatsapp conversation and many more. You can control social media apps usage for office and home users also. This software find out all the details of conversation history, deleted text messages, and much more and track social media platforms like Gmail, Kik, Skype, Hangouts, Hike, Line and Viber messages in your work places as well.
Can I track down What the location is of a message sent to me on facebook?
Someone sent me a Facebook Message saying they think my husband is cheating. Its from a Facebook page that is obviously not someone's real one (The page has no pics, friends or anything indicating that it is actually being used other than to message me). I know with email, you can track the I.P address, but can you do so with a Facebook message? And if you can, where would I look to find out how to get the I.P address. Do I need a professional to look up the culprit? Remember, this is coming from a Facebook account, just not sure if it can be traced back to a single computer or not. Thanks to all
How do you track someones location on tumblr?
highlight the 'block' link (it's before the 'answer' link at the top of the message) then right click and select “View Selection Source” (or “Inspect Element” in Google Chrome). then a new window will pop up and search this: http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lki2tyCBC… The highlighted (and circled) numbers are the sender’s IP address. then search with this http://whatismyipaddress.com/ It’ll tell you were the person lives. dont forget follow me ;) : thetreasures.tumblr.com
On an iPhone, will my friend get notified if I stop sharing my location?
If I turn off "share my location" on my iPhone in the messages, will the friend I stopped sharing with receive a notification stating I have stopped sharing my location?