From: Chuck Kuecker (ckuecker@ckent.org)
Date: Wed Nov 20 2002 - 06:03:53 MST
Don't forget the other easy solution - wrap the phone in good old aluminum
foil whenever you don't want people tracking you. It seems to work against
the mind-control satellites ;)
Of course, the system will update itself in a few seconds once the
shielding is gone.
GPS is notoriously unreliable inside structures, and won't work at all in
tunnels, etc. The signal is almost below the noise floor even with a
dedicated antenna. Unless the satellites have been upgraded to put out more
power, I don't see a cell phone, with a fairly low gain, omnidirectional
antenna, being able to hold onto GPS signals when it's in your pocket,
close to a pretty conductive bag of electrolytes. Or inside a vehicle,
without an external antenna, for that matter.
This was meant to be a locator for emergency calls, not a general purpose
tracker. Cell sites supposedly can triangulate on a phone so as to locate
it within a few meters, anyway, GPS or no.
Mike - do you have any web links to the "crime" of disabling a cell phone's
innards?
Chuck Kuecker
At 18:47 11/19/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>2002-11-19 17:07:02, Mike Lorrey <mlorrey@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > All of the new digital cell phones (3G cellphones in
> >IEEE terminology) are required to have GPS chips in them so that any
> >cell phone, active or not, can be located if it has a charged battery,
> >and thus whoever is in posession of said cellphone can also be located
> >(note: even a deactivated cellphone can still dial 911, so it's really
> >not totally inactive) It is also a crime to disable this GPS chip....
> >this includes a number of other G7 nations as well as the US.
>
>Not sure about all the details on "crime" or G3 properties, but AFAICT, if
>you DISCONNECT the battery
>whenever you are seeking to operate "nap of the earth", the present day
>tech doesn't permit getting GPS
>position info during such disconnected times. Hiccup! Hypotech such as
>non-disconnectable batteries that
>can still log location is left for individual delectation. And the
>scannable chips are a separate
>technology and might or might not piggyback on the phones; how could Joe
>Sixpack tell? It's all buried in
>ABS and SMDs.
>
>MMB
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