The key part of the article is this “ to spy on phones when they are turned off, agencies would usually have to infect the handset with a Trojan that would force it to continue emitting a signal if the phone is in standby mode, unless the battery is removed.”
The bottom line is unless you believe that Australia has infected our citizens phones en masse, it is impossible to track a phone that is powered off unless you infect it beforehand.
Nobody had any reason to compromise Borce’s phone prior to the date in question & I do not believe our state police forces have the ability to hack/infect phones & install Trojans - that is the realm of ASIO & perhaps occasionally the Feds. Even if this was within the means available to our state police, it has to be done before you try to track the phone, not retrospectively & there was no reason for this to happen to Borce in advance.
