Posted on 12/03/2006 2:32:53 PM PST by ellery
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Many freepers kindly helped to get a FRhomepage organized on Internet Explorer. It should look organized, now.
I imagine it's not too hard to install a switch that would disconnect the battery without having to remove it. Mafia guys probably know some good phone technicians.
Oh I'm sure this will only be used against "terrorists" and organized crime...
The sheeple have become so gullible it's truly sad.
Sell General Motors stock NOW!
Maybe that's why Kerkorian is selling his.
This is nothing new and it's not only Nextel, but most all cell phones can be turned on remotely. I saw this done at an unclass NSA sym; the guys putting on the demo picked a guy out of the crowd and were able to turn on his cell phone and listen. This was a couple years ago.
One thing I know is true is that you can be fairly precisely located and tracked while your cell phone is on. As long as the battery is out, the phone is dead.
I'm thinking of the pro-drug testing folks... ''What are you afraid of if you've got nothing to hide?''
The demonrats will put an end to this.
If you aren't doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about. They wouldn't be listening to you just for the fun of it.
"One thing I know is true is that you can be fairly precisely located and tracked while your cell phone is on."
I've heard of numerous cases where the cell company give the police information on where some suspects phone one. This is used to tie them to a certain location.
But of course you don't have to worry about this because it won't be abused. /s
One more reason I don't have one o' them contraptions grafted onto my skull.
Must be terrible to have one, everywhere I look I see some guy/gal holding their ear from the pain of the dang'd things hang'n onto their ears and scream'n in the wind.
Sheez, masochism is tak'n over America :O/
Right. Teams of FBI agents just can't wait to listen to you argue with your wife on your cell phone over what's for dinner, and arrest you for it.
"Right. Teams of FBI agents just can't wait to listen to you argue with your wife on your cell phone over what's for dinner, and arrest you for it."
No, they'd have arrested my ex wife for her Ham Rice-Puff casserole.
What a bunch of pikers.
On another thread, other posters were to READ WHAT WAS IN MY MIND as I typed my post.
Some will tell you that since privacy isn't specifically mentioned in the US Constitution it doesn't exist. They also believe that the Constitution is an enumeration of our rights, and not what the Founders said: a document defining and limiting government powers.
Maybe when my phone is in the same room as I, it should get placed next to a speaker that is playing Korn's latest. Loudly. So they can listen to Thoughtless. Am I doing anything illegal? Nope. But I trust this government as far as I can throw it. Especially now that the Dhimmitude has taken two of three branches.
And therein lies the problem. While Rummy and Bush wouldn't use these powers against honest Americans, Hitlery, Pelosi, and Osama Obama wouldn't think twice about it, just for opposing them politically (and Kennedy and Reid would be far worse!!!!). That is why I oppose the Patriot Act (I and II). It potentially places far too much power in the hands of people who don't have qualms about its use.
They can only determine your location within the radius of the cell tower, which could be anywhere within a 25 mile radius depending on how far apart towers are from each other in the area.
It's not like they can drop a bomb on you.
Most late model cells have GPS. Whether or not you pay for the service, Uncle 1984 can track you.
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