Your Cellphone is a Homing Device

Legal Affairs ^ | May/June 2003 Issue | Brendan I. Koerner

[Rennes Templar]

I'm definitely leaving my cell phone at my work desk next time I go play golf.

[al baby]

But can it find my sunglasses

[PeaceBeWithYou]

We get signal....HA HA HA HA.

[EdReform]

read later...

[Dr Warmoose]

What pisses me off is that if this is a GPS enabled phone, why can't I see my GPS coordinates on the screen but it appears everyone else can from their computer.

[John Lenin]

Drug dealers who change their phones often are going to love this feature, not !

[Thorondir]

I went to the phrack website, but the schematic is a bunch of garbeled gobbledeegook. I want to build one.

[Billthedrill]

I asked that question myself and the saleslady actually called an engineer for me. It's only the software on the phone that's not quite capable of coordinate readout yet, and the upgrade is being coded and tested now. How the GPS receiver companies will enjoy the competition is easy to imagine - not much - but the guy said the feature will be ready to be offered within six months. Whether it will be offered is a marketing, not a technical, decision.

[MCSTex]

You can turn the "tracking" feature OFF on my cell phone.
It is the users option to have it on or off.

[templar]

I'm definitely leaving my cell phone at my work desk next time I go play golf.

Or leave it with a buddy at a bowling alley on the other side of town while you're knocking off that bank.

[VeniVidiVici]

My phone came with a free black helicopter! ;-)

I can also turn the tracking feature off (for those times I want to take the black helicopter)

[MCSTex]

Great! That is much easier to deal with than an armored personnel carrier or a tank.

[wysiwyg]

It's very easy to disable this feature in Samsung handsets. It only works if you dial 911.

[DainBramage]

Triangulation between the three closest towers is hardly tracking.

They like to say they can tell where you are but its BS.

Not to mention, the way my providers coverage sucks,

they are laying their asses on the line in court if they offer this technology,

yet the coverage leaves you rotting in the sun if you happen to be

in one of their many "blind" spots.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

I specifically made sure that my new phone had the GPS tracking and I always keep it on.

[Cultural Jihad]

I'm definitely leaving my cell phone at my work desk next time I go play golf.

This all sounds like much ado about nothing. Don't let the fear of freedom which new technology brings enslave you. You may need that cell phone on the golf course!

[wafflehouse]

ah, no. if your cellphone is on, it can be tracked to within a coupla miles probably..

[wafflehouse]

that is, without E911..

[Restorer]

a potentially important perk should you ever find your hand pinned beneath an immovable boulder in rural Utah, as Aron Ralston did recently.

In that part of Utah? Not bloody likely!

[LibKill]

Well, if you're smart enough to leave the cell phone at home it can give you an alibi.

"Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury. These phone logs conclusively prove that my client was at home all night when that murder was committed, 150 miles away!"

:)