Calif Leads US with Mobile Tracker
Anonymous
nobody at replay.com
Fri Sep 18 05:00:50 PDT 1998
On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, John Young wrote:
>
> Thanks to John Gilmore.
>
>
> http://www.msnbc.com/local/KNBC/14920.asp
>
> CHP introduces cellular-friendly 911 system
>
> Operators will now be able to capture the
> telephone number and location of the caller
> within a half-block area
While I understand the implications and outrage here, anybody who uses
cellular phones as a measure of security is a total idiot. The connections
usually aren't encrypted, they're radiated to the rest of the area, and
your position can be triangulated (half-ass) if nothing else.
With that in mind, maybe this one is actually legitimate. If criminals
and/or patriots are that stupid, they'll get caught for something else
like driving drunk two states away.
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