Re: [dave@farber.net: [IP] Request: Check your cell phone to see if it's always transmitting your location [priv]]

At 9:43 PM -0400 9/28/05, sunder wrote:

Gee, I wonder why anyone would design a cell phone or pager to be able to stay on after its battery is pulled out.

To protect whatever's in the then-volatile memory? cf Pournelle on conspiracy and stupidity...

Are we just too paranoid?

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