-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 04:43 PM 4/21/98 -0700, Lucky Green wrote:
On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Phil Karn wrote:
This is a really difficult issue. Even the most diehard cypherpunk cannot doubt the usefulness of a cellular position reporting capability in an emergency situation, when the user *wants* the cops or whoever to know where he is. The big problem is how to keep it from being used (or abused) for "law enforcement" purposes without the consent of the user.
Usfull != good idea. If the information is available for some purposes, it is, or soon will, become available for other purposes. The only way to prevent this is to not make the information available for *any* purpose.
I gladly take the cellphone without 911 locator over the cellphone with 24/7 postion escrow. Furthermore, I content that there is no middle ground between the two. Assuming of course the phone doesn't have an active locator device that can be enabled using a special 911 button.
YMMV.
Regardless of the type of phone, the cell stations can be designed to do time-of-arrival comparisons on the signal transmitted from the phone and calculate a reasonably accurate position. If you don't want your location known, don't transmit. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Business Security 5.5 iQA/AwUBNT4rmMJF0kXqpw3MEQJLDACeNIUGb/troVJOuJhvX1g4z8itgdsAoLPX WehkE2KpV3BTm9Z5w00ktqI4 =KzUa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Jonathan Wienke PGP Key Fingerprints: 7484 2FB7 7588 ACD1 3A8F 778A 7407 2928 3312 6597 8258 9A9E D9FA 4878 C245 D245 EAA7 0DCC Proud to be a charter member of the vast right-wing conspiracy! RSA export-o-matic: print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<> )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`