RE: Dr. Fun: NSA Tracking Devices

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>]

From:                   "Richard M. Smith" <rms () bsf-llc com>
Date sent:              Sat, 10 Jun 2006 22:12:45 -0400

> http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060610/tc_nm/telecoms_verizon_chaperone_dc_1

We've had it through Bell Mobility, in Canada.  I did a brief piece on it, which 
prompted someone from Bell to call and give me more technical details.  It is 
interesting: the display system is in the US, making it subject to tracking and 
bugging under the PATRIOT act and other regs, but whereas US telcos would have 
to refrain from reporting that LE was tracking someone (under PATRIOT), the 
Bell system automatically alerts anyone who is being tracked.  (Presumably this 
could be circumvented by Bell, but you would have to go through Canadian courts 
to get them to do it.)

(Yes, I know, obviously yet another example of us Canucks being soft on 
terrorists, by allowing Bell to sell US-based terrorists Bell cellphones, plus the 
added "unlimited NA roaming" package, and corner the "terrorists who want to use 
cellphones but also want to know when the DHS is tracking them" market.)

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