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RE: E-tracking through your cell phone
From: "Avishai Avivi" <AAvivi () juniper net>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:22:51 -0800
Check out http://www.hobomotion.com/ The project is mostly dead - but I think it is somewhat relevant. You may want to go into http://www.hobomotion.com/about.html to learn about the actual project. - Avi -----Original Message----- From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On Behalf Of Peter Evans Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 5:59 PM To: funsec () linuxbox org Subject: Re: [funsec] E-tracking through your cell phone Richard M. Smith (rms () bsf-llc com) wrote:
You may already know this, but your cell phone happens to be a
miniature
tracking device that can be used to monitor your location from afar.
Whereas here in japan, we have phones for kids that will tell parents where they are. (They call it safety here, not conspiracy, and anyone ranting about how teens would defeat this can leave. Its for tiny kids.) Given the cell nature of cellphones (as opposed to goat phones, which are sort of cheesy), triangulating position is an exercise for the reader. With CDMA ones and their need for super accurate time care of GPS, one wonders if the phone companies dont have live maps with dots roaming around on them (purely for capacity planning you know). "madame fifi's is looking kind of busy tonight, maybe they got new poodles. Perhaps we should add a mast there ..."
So much for promises from politicians.
I think believing anything that comes from any orifice or appendage of a politician is just asking for trouble. Unless you are that politician, in which case, the extra bit of sincerity helps... P _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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