Airplane mode feels like an off switch for surveillance. Flip it, and the phone goes quiet. It’s a useful setting, but it was designed to keep radios from interfering with aircraft, not to make you invisible, and treating it as a security boundary will get you in trouble. Here’s what it actually does and what
Travel is where your phone is most exposed: unfamiliar networks, border searches, devices out of your sight. A practical, no-paranoia checklist for the road.
Flight crews live unusually public, predictable lives, and their phones reveal schedules, routes, and the movements of the people they fly. A detailed look at mobile security for aviation professionals.
