Posted on 12/03/2006 2:32:53 PM PST by ellery
Wrap the phone in lead foil when not in 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."
Older phones yes, new phones can be tracked with MUCH greater precision. Again, if you are innocent then you don't have to worry, right?
That turns out to not be the case... It has been 4 years since I worked in telecom, but at the beginning of 2002, I know that location accuracy without GPS enables was close to 100 meters, and much closer, if you have a GPS enabled phone.
/johnny
There used to be a freeper who posted under the handle of a John D MacDonald fiction hero. He wrote a book. It had something like this in it.
It was a good book, by the way.
Just from the description, I'd say that's a felony worthy of life without parole.
They'd also be able to track your direction if you were moving while talking and roaming from one tower to the next.
In any case, if "they" had to go to all that trouble to find you, then you probably deserve to be caught and tossed in jail anyways.
I just finnished eating ham for dinner, So I didn't want to ask just what a 'Ham rice-puff casserole' was.
Doesn't sound too good whatever it is. Maybe he's lucky he's an ex and she's not a widow instead.
I imagine Big Borther justified the intrusive telescreens in 1984 in much the same way....
What phones evade these creeps when they decide to use the technology against you for "hate speech" prosecution (like speaking against Hillary or a Muslim)?
Jack Bauer taught us that early on
So that the telecoms can do a smooth hand-off to the next tower... That software was there from the beginning.
/johnny
Get a very old phone, take out the battery when you rn't using it, and don't make that many phone calls.
Never heard of it.
Overheard on my cell phone, FBI tap:
Sine_nomine (aka Natty the Nose): "I am almost home. Need anything from the store?"
Mrs. Sine_nomine (aka Bonneville Brunhilda): "No."
One of the original info dump websites that was closed by the FBI maybe 6 years ago had posted the original software to do this with StarTac phones. This was probably 7 years ago now.
Faraday cages for cell phones are another option.
http://www.datenform.de/silvereng.html
http://www.rfid-weblog.com/50226711/building_a_faraday_cage_in_clothing_to_shield_rfid_tags.php
Also, some Israelis have a PDA out that detects all cell phone transmissions:
http://www.netline.co.il/Netline/CAAdetector.htm
As far as police or some secret government organization wanting to see through the walls of your house or listen to you, they have been able to do that for decades.
As always, the ones complaining the most are criminals and their lawyers.
"... There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one MAKES them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. .....just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted -- and you create a nation of law-breakers -- and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Reardon, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with."
- p.411, Ayn Rand, ATLAS SHRUGGED, Signet Books, NY, 1957
Think tax code. You know, the one that tripped up Al Capone. Course now days there's something much more useful, like conspiracy to pick-statute, any statute.
...then any old Radio Shack scanner can be used to listen into your conversation.
better have them listen then have them know where you are
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