Chip Mefford wrote:
Actually,
there seems to be a screw up out there.
Right now, one can go down the 7/11, and pay cash for a prepaid cellphone, and renew it with cellphone time cards also purchased with cash.
No paperwork, NONE.
I have one.
While all of the technology applies, and certainly it is possible to determine things by analyzing calling habits, I can't see how one can easily determine who has cellphone #blahblahblahblahblah when you just bought a box at an out of town 7/11 during the breakfast rush with cash.
Esp if one doesn't make a lot of calls.
Tasty. Especially if one's partner in crime has taken the same precaution. To the LEAs: technology giveth and technology taketh away. BTW - do these phones have a modem connector? If not could one be added? Then you get end-to-end privacy too.