Posted on 02/22/2010 12:29:24 PM PST by nickcarraway
I think they call the tracking device for landlines a phone book.
LOL
POST OF THE DAY!!!
The main thing I don’t like about cell phones, is using them. They’re not comfortable to use, too small.
I don’t make enough phone calls to justify even the cheapest cell contract. Land line for me, cheap, and easy.
Cell phone calls go to a cell tower which decrypts the digital sound and sends it off unencrypted to a centralized digital network to be routed. The records of who called whom from what cell are available, and if there's a court order, a copy of the sound. National security agencies intercept phone traffic and use computers to perform voice fingerprints and generate transcripts that can be scanned for keyword combinations. Buying throw aways doesn't insure they can't figure out who someone is, just makes it a little harder, and a little more incriminating that they're up to something. It's technically possible to set up an encrypted and anonymous cell phone system using specially modified cell phones however if it became popular the Feds would likely make it illegal.
I thought I would miss our home phone but then I just turned them off and didn’t miss them a bit. I finally had our home number ported (forwarded) over to my cell phone number for a year or so for 10.00 a month. I gathered up all the phones and threw them up in the attic. I sure don’t miss the bells ringing all over the house or having to run for a phone call. I and my wife just carry our cells in our pockets. If you have poor service I would just try a different cell phone or provider.
I wouldn’t miss the home phone at all, it’s a necessary evil. One must have a phone, but the fact is the wife and I are involved in roughly one phone call a week, there isn’t a cell plan out there that makes that cost effective. I don’t want a phone in my pocket, one of the things I like about landlines is that they don’t follow me, leave home and the phone ceases to exist. I don’t have a cell service, and God willing I never will.
Well my mother in law likes her pre-paid cell phone for that same reason since it works out rather cheap for her. For chuckles you might just want to check it out.
Nope. Don’t need it, got a land line, which still gets better prices.
No, you are correct, you can’t from the iphones.
In addition, phones in most American and Canadian states are designed to broadcast their position on the so-called E911 service for emergency use. The service uses signal triangulation as well as the phone's built-in GPS (if available), and is enabled by default for all new phones. In fact, the E911 service may track the phone even when it appears to be switched off. Although this is unlikely, there is nothing to stop the phone software simulating being powered down while in fact remaining on the network. To be sure your phone is actually offline, you need to removed the battery or use a signal-blocking bag - more on this later.
At this site: MobileActive.org
I can't verify the correctness of the information given.
One thing is certain, if your cell phone is on, it can be tracked. Any action you take to render the phone un-trackable (turn it off, remove the battery, throw the phone away) will result in making the phone dead weight. You may as well take the action that guarantees that it won't transmit.
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