Re: For Liars and Loafers, Cellphones Offer an Alibi

At 02:02 AM 6/27/04 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote:

Can it be disabled by hardware hack of the phone, a mikropower jammer,

or >using an "unofficial" firmware? I wrote: It would be hard to verify/test that you had in fact cut the correct trace, and it would depend on the phone, and you would void your warrantee. Firmware hacks are of course the free man's last refuge. Of course disabling your GPS unit will not prevent the fascists from doing triangulation with signal strength, ie the alternative (and cheaper and less precise alternative). That's merely physics and geometry. To counter that, you need to hack the antennae and and can only displace yourself a few miles. ---- Go for the head shot, they're wearing body armor