I have been following the recent discussion on Denning's GPS I.D. plan and had some thoughts: I wonder what the pro-govt anti-privacy types would do if some obnoxious group started publishing a list with the home/work GPS of say various congresspersons/senatepersons? Since cruise missile's already use GPS to find/destroy their target, how long do you figure before some terrorist group use's this ever cheaper tech to trigger one of it's devices? <car bombs, the poor man's air force> What defences are there? Just how small/inexpensive could a home GPS/ECM system be? Personnel dithering? Locally transmitting your own public key encrypted location. This is thoughtfood only. Brian
On Mon, 15 Apr 1996, Brian D Williams wrote:
What defences are there? Just how small/inexpensive could a home GPS/ECM system be?
The portable handheld GPS receivers are well under $300. I've seen a couple under $200. Clinton is supposed to have either turned off dithering or will soon (crossing fingers). Dithering is a real nuisance at times... -- Ed Carp, N7EKG Ed.Carp@linux.org, ecarp@netcom.com 214/993-3935 voicemail/digital pager Finger ecarp@netcom.com for PGP 2.5 public key an88744@anon.penet.fi "Past the wounds of childhood, past the fallen dreams and the broken families, through the hurt and the loss and the agony only the night ever hears, is a waiting soul. Patient, permanent, abundant, it opens its infinite heart and asks only one thing of you ... 'Remember who it is you really are.'" -- "Losing Your Mind", Karen Alexander and Rick Boyes The mark of a good conspiracy theory is its untestability. -- Andrew Spring
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