Posted on 12/03/2006 2:32:53 PM PST by ellery
Tower triangulation works pretty well, within 100 yards or so. You'd probaby be better off using a pay phone if you can still find one.
Ah the sound of sanity. It amazes me how many "conservatives" were/are so willing to sign over their freedoms in the name of security.
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security." Benjamin Franklin
Pandora's box was opened. Good luck ever closing it again.
or simply buy the readily available jamming device.
How about the electronic impulses from your computer?
How about the lasers that detect vibration in windows?
How about the private companies that collect your data?
If Disney can sell parental super supervising cell phones for your kids, then that same data is available for purchase.
If Bill and Hillary Clinton can abscond with FBI files and use the IRS to go after people, then privacy is an issue of who is in power not the tools.
Would we rather this be in the hands of conservatives or leftists or third wayists or John Kerry or Al Gore or Hitlary?
The courts can and do not protect us from any of this.
As a matter of fact, the video board in your computer is a great transmitter.
Search using the word "TEMPEST".
What's on your computer screen can be seen from up to 5 miles away.
Ooooh aaaahhh....
Franklin also said "a small leak will sink a great ship." ;)
Doesn't mean I have to feel happy about it or facilitate their access in any way. Also, it's worth resisting because government's nature is such that they'll extend their abilities steadily in this area, so I champion anyone who makes it easier for me to safeguard my privacy.
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When I was in the USAF, the Comm people always told us that the GCB's (Godless Commie B*stards) could listen in on our beepers and walkie-talkies so we left them outside classified briefings. Now I know they weren't over-reacting.
Is it that bad?
It's not like they can drop a bomb on you.
Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
High tech hit on "president"
Abdul-Khalim Saidullayev, the Chechen rebel "president" killed Saturday by pro-Russian forces, was the fourth pro-independence leader of the Muslim province to be killed in more than a decade of conflict with Moscow. Saidullayev's precedessor, Aslan Maskhadov, was also killed by pro-Russian forces in Chechnya on March 8, 2005. His death came after those of Akhmad Kadyrov, Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev and Djokhar Dudayev. Maskhadov was killed after a battle with Russian forces in the Chechen village of Tolstoi-Yurt after he was, according to Russian officials, trapped in a bunker under a house there.
Dudayev's killing, in April 1996, resulted from a bizarre blend of high technology and long-distance military intelligence as the Russian air force finally got their man after several attempts. Dudayev, 52, was in the village of Gekhi-Chu, about 30 kilometers southwest of the capital Grozny, when he answered a satellite telephone call from a Russian politician in Moscow who was ostensibly acting as a go-between in impending peace negotiations. But minutes later, two missiles exploded at the exact spot where he was standing and he died of his injuries shortly afterwards. Russian authorities at the time confirmed that the missiles had been guided to their target by the signal emitted by Dudayev's satellite phone.
Previous attempts by the air force to eliminate the man whose proud boast was "I have only one bodyguard - Allah," had failed as Dudayev had hung up too quickly. Dudayev had been elected president in October 1991 and proclaimed unilateral Chechen independence the following month.
Travis McGee?
Ditto
And Nokia and Motorola and.....
The Founding Fathers could never have envisioned a world with cell phones.
No thanks. I don't trust government with this much power.
A culinary crime worthy of imprisonment.
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