From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Nov 23 2002 - 18:30:34 MST
--- Chuck Kuecker <ckuecker@ckent.org> wrote:
> 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 ;)
I'd have to take the aluminum foil off of my head first... ;)
>
> 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.
True, but because of this ping capability, it can also be used for cell
signal triangulation without the owners awareness.
>
> Mike - do you have any web links to the "crime" of disabling a cell
> phone's innards?
Not off hand. I just read it in a book on 802.11 standards I picked up
at Borders last week. Once I get home I'll try to see if there are any
links in it referencing this.
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