From: Chuck Kuecker (ckuecker@ckent.org)
Date: Wed Nov 20 2002 - 10:56:35 MST
The original Motorola analog cell phones back in 1979 had ways to enable
the microphone and transmitter without the user's knowledge. I am sure this
capability is still there in modern phones.
Have you done the trick with the LED? It would be interesting to see the
details...
Chuck Kuecker
At 15:04 11/20/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Chuck Kuecker wrote:
>
> > GPS is notoriously unreliable inside structures, and won't work at all in
>
>GPS is unnecessary to locate you within 100 feet in a given cell. The base
>station contains the infrastructure, and your provider is required by law
>to cooperate with LEOs. It is trivial to radiate information on location
>of all cellphone IDs on a given cell, and its change over time. Portable
>cellphone ID capturers exist, allowing LEOs in the field to assign the ID
>to a given warm body. For all I know some box with realtime position info
>of all mobile toters is already in operation somewhere (unlikely, though).
>
>GPS makes this just easier, but is not actually necessary. Given backdoors
>or exploits your cellphone can also double as a portable audio bug. A bug
>you care not to lose, and pay for by yourself, that's dreamy, if you
>happen to be a fed. Of course if you have a LED light attached to the
>antenna you can see when it sends, and it will have a noticeable drain on
>the battery (fuel cells and always-on devices with reduced sending power
>will make this more difficult to detect).
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