[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

Sell Nextel Stock NOW!

/h

[ellery]

ping

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Privacy seems to be decreasing since September 11th. A balance should be struck between security and privacy, and currently it seems as though privacy is losing.

Many freepers kindly helped to get a FRhomepage organized on Internet Explorer. It should look organized, now.

[Right Wing Assault]

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.

[KillTime]

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.

[Sender]

I've heard for years that cell phones could be remotely activated, it's probably true. The providers can upload code to your phone at any time.

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.

[Lexington Green]

I'm thinking of the pro-drug testing folks... ''What are you afraid of if you've got nothing to hide?''

[killermosquito]

The demonrats will put an end to this.

[ancient_geezer]

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/

[Balding_Eagle]

What a bunch of pikers.

On another thread, other posters were to READ WHAT WAS IN MY MIND as I typed my post.

[Prodigal Son]

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.

[montag813]

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)?

[montag813]

Some handsets can't be fully powered down without removing the battery

Jack Bauer taught us that early on

[JerseyHighlander]

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

[Darth Republican]

[dr_who_2]

Ooooh aaaahhh....

[archy]

As described in detail by Travis McGee in his novel Enemies, Foreign and Domestic.

At least one of the passages describing such cell phone capabilities is available for reading in the free sampler for thew book, about halfway down.

[CholeraJoe]

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.

[mysterio]

No thanks. I don't trust government with this much power.

[Just another Joe]

This isn't new, it's been around for years.