For Liars and Loafers, Cellphones Offer an Alibi

Eugen Leitl eugen at leitl.org
Sun Jun 27 03:56:10 PDT 2004


On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 02:02:24AM +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote:

> Can it be disabled by hardware hack of the phone, a mikropower jammer, or
> using an "unofficial" firmware?

Jamming GPS is no problem, but then they'll just triangulate you within the
cell. The only way to prevent that would be to switch off, andn to pull the
battery (unless the firmware is open source, and peer-reviewed).

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