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Re: Feds 'Pinged' Sprint GPS Data 8 Million Times Over a Year
From: "Thor (Hammer of God)" <thor () hammerofgod com>
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 17:59:29 -0800
Except that if you look at the report, you see that one request was made just 37 seconds after the first, yet only 6 were made in the hour. So who really knows? They can obviously request whatever they want when they want. Also, based on what the reported statement was, anyone with a logon can request location information for a sprint number - there was no mention of some back-end auditing process that ensures that only numbers with a valid search warrant are available; and I'm doubtful that is case since it is a nationally based system. This is what anonymous phones are for. t -----Original Message----- From: full-disclosure-bounces () lists grok org uk [mailto:full-disclosure-bounces () lists grok org uk] On Behalf Of Ed Carp Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 5:31 PM To: Ivan . Cc: full-disclosure Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Feds 'Pinged' Sprint GPS Data 8 Million Times Over a Year If you read the article, that 8 million figure is the number of samplings, not the number of requests or the number of subscribers monitored. The article says that they can get data every 3 minutes over a 60 day period, which is 28,800 samples. Diving that into 8 million gives you 278 individual subscribers, which is probably much lower than the number of subscribers actually monitored. If you monitor a subscriber for 10 days (a typical number), you get 1667 subscribers monitored, a drop in the bucket of the 48 million subscribers that Sprint claims it has. Nothing to see here, I think ... move along, move along... ;) _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
Current thread:
- Feds ‘Pinged’ Sprint GPS Data 8 Million Times Over a Year Ivan . (Dec 01)
- Re: [Full-disclosure] Feds ‘Pinged’ Sprint GPS Data 8 Million Times Over a Year Ed Carp (Dec 01)
- Re: Feds 'Pinged' Sprint GPS Data 8 Million Times Over a Year Thor (Hammer of God) (Dec 01)
- Re: Feds 'Pinged' Sprint GPS Data 8 Million Times Over a Year Matthias Appel (Dec 01)
- Re: [Full-disclosure] Feds ‘Pinged’ Sprint GPS Data 8 Million Times Over a Year Ed Carp (Dec 01)