I hope all questions regarding this subject are directed to your post and further discussion closed. Your post is extremely thorough and informative but I cringe every time I see space wasted here for people wanting to track a phone or extract data. I would guess 99% of those are in reality trying to track someone else's location or extract someone's personal data. You can tell by the way they "carefully" try to make it sound legit. I've known many people who have lost phones and every one of them immediately cancelled their service and after a few days bought a new phone. Questions regarding the hacking of someone else's phone really need to be removed. They have no place here.