For Liars and Loafers, Cellphones Offer an Alibi

[Major Variola (ret)]

At 02:02 AM 6/27/04 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
>
>Can it be disabled by hardware hack of the phone, a mikropower jammer,
or >using an "unofficial" firmware?

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.

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