On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Jonathan Wienke wrote:
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.
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Or, delay the return signal and use a paraboloid reflector. This would limit a spy's knowledge to the angle from the tower that you were transmitting from, and the maximum distance from the tower that you could be sitting at. The paraboloid reflector would limit the ability for someone to triangulate your location, depending on how narrow the beam is focused.. Of course, if they really wanted to find you, they would walk along the line of transmission until they ran right into you :). Sure, the average joe is not going to go to the trouble of modifying his cell phone and using a paraboloid reflector.. and even if he did, a remailer type of system would be much more secure. I guess the average unaware joe is just going to have to get used to being shafted as a result of his ignorance. Isn't that how it's always been? Question: How could true anarchy be guaranteed for stupid people like Joe? the universe is anarchy; the current situation is a result of that anarchy. What me worry..