Posted on 03/01/2002 5:16:24 PM PST by truthandlife
"During the more than 3,600 indoor and outdoor, suburban, rural and highway pre-service tests, the Geometrix system provided wireless caller location accuracy which substantially bettered the FCC’s accuracy requirements. The FCC requires a network solution to be accurate within 100 meters for 67% of the calls and 300 meters for 95% of the calls. The Geometrix system’s test results showed it to be accurate within 53 meters (174.9 ft) for 67% of the calls and accurate within 132 meters (435.6 ft) for 95% of the calls. Grayson Wireless installed, tested and activated the Geometrix system in St. Clair County in less than 60 days."
Who the heck is Pablo Escobar?
I made a blanket statement. My bad. MY cell phones (all 5 that I have had) are incapable of transmitting when turned off. This is shown by watching current draw when inactive. The current draw is ZERO, indicating that nothing is drawing current, ergo, nothing being xmitted!
Do you have EVIDENCE to the contrary?
In another side note, I find it interesting that people are always saying we are being watched, monitored, spyed upon, overheard, recorded, taped, and othewise having out "privacy" intruded upon. I worked on a space project back in the 80's and much to the consternation of the high scientific mucky-mucks, the amount of data amassed would take 100 years to analyse.
I am currently involved in legal investigation of hard drives. It takes hundreds of hours to analyse the corrupted data on a HD even by trained law enforcement gurus.
Does anyone actually think that multiple agencies are gathering gigi ^to the gigi - bytes of data with no hope of analyses? Doubt it. I coould be wrong but I welcome reasonable challenges.
"The feds will fill it in."
Boy Howdy is that ever the truth!
Actually, that was his secod post on this forum.
Look at his profile and do a FIND IN FORUM search.
His first post was just to call Sean Hannity an uneducated redneck.
He is only here to ruffle feathers, and doesn't have the guts to support his statements.
I stand by my previous comment. If one reads the article, one refrains from asking stupid questions.
Conventional RDF from an airplane making a "running fix" as it flys along takes only seconds today to fix you within a few hundred meters, or closer with better gear located on the ground, after they have gotten your rough position.
It works much better in the country, where your signal is not reflected and "ghosting" all over the place, it's MUCH tougher to find you in a city where false images abound due to the abundance of ferrocement structures and electrical wires etc etc.
Really, I STRONGLY suggest you read "Killing Pablo" to learn about this subject.
Hmmmm?
Do your research next time.
heheheheh
"Q: Why can't Budddhists vaccum in corners?"
"A: Because they have no attachments."
That is Rich!
Are you serious? The multi billionaire leader of the Medellin Cartel, who became a fugitive within his home country Colombia in the early 90s, killed hundreds of police and soldiers, killed dozens of judges, assassinated presidential candidates, blew up a full jetliner to get one enemy, that Pablo Escobar. You really never heard of him? That astounds me.
We sent Delta and CIA secret US Army units to Colombia to help track him when he went fugitive. These trackers used all the cell phone and RDF tricks I have mentioned to find him. Read "Killing Pablo" by Mark Bowden.
I made a blanket statement. My bad. MY cell phones (all 5 that I have had) are incapable of transmitting when turned off. This is shown by watching current draw when inactive. The current draw is ZERO, indicating that nothing is drawing current, ergo, nothing being xmitted! Do you have EVIDENCE to the contrary?
Read the book and find out how they do it.
In another side note, I find it interesting that people are always saying we are being watched, monitored, spyed upon, overheard, recorded, taped, and othewise having out "privacy" intruded upon. I worked on a space project back in the 80's and much to the consternation of the high scientific mucky-mucks, the amount of data amassed would take 100 years to analyse. I am currently involved in legal investigation of hard drives. It takes hundreds of hours to analyse the corrupted data on a HD even by trained law enforcement gurus. Does anyone actually think that multiple agencies are gathering gigi ^to the gigi - bytes of data with no hope of analyses? Doubt it. I coould be wrong but I welcome reasonable challenges.
You are correct in the general, searching is the big challenge, but as computers have become more powerful and faster, setting up programs to pluck specific digital ID Codes from the cell phone transmissions becomes a trivial exercise. Once they have isolated target cell ID codes, tracking them in real or past time is a joke.
You assume too much. There are very good posters who have been banned for the mere fact that the moderators don't like what they have to say. In otherwords for their opinions.
Just because you happen to agree with one doesn't mean that they are all correct.
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