At 09:25 PM 6/26/04 -0700, Major Variola (ret) wrote:

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.

Ok, so I'm commenting on an errata to my own post. Sosume. What you need is an Onion network linking cells to POTS or even other cells. Ie, you cellcall a number which routes the call to your desired apparent location. So you call the service, say you'd like to appear to be in Moscow, and a real phone in Moscow connects to your endpoint. Phone could be landline or cell; both are geo-tracable. Sorta like bookies in the 70's had POTS phone hacks to bridge endpoints. Which one could use today to mislead caller ID. This is of course vulnerable to eg satellites listening for your cellphone in the first place, so its not Osama level telecom rerouting. But it *would* let you appear to be at the library if you're at Cheech's place, unless there's a sytemwide Fedtap on your cell phone. (Which used to require a real thinking judge to approve, BTW; now thinking has been replaced by mere respiration.) ------- In the non-heterosexual sense, fuck bush.