Tracing cellphones

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 23:26:55 -0500
From: Tim O'Connor <tim () roughdraft org>
Subject: Tracing cellphones
To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>

Dave: For IP, if you like:

--tim o'connor


<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/04/international/europe/04PHON.html?hp>

        

How Tiny Swiss Cellphone Chips Helped Track Global Terror Web
By DON VAN NATTA Jr. and DESMOND BUTLER

Published: March 4, 2004

ONDON, March 2 -- The terrorism investigation code-named Mont Blanc began
almost by accident in April 2002, when authorities intercepted a
cellphone call that lasted less than a minute and involved not a single
word of conversation.

Investigators, suspicious that the call was a signal between terrorists,
followed the trail first to one terror suspect, then to others, and
eventually to terror cells on three continents.

What tied them together was a computer chip smaller than a fingernail.
But before the investigation wound down in recent weeks, its global net
caught dozens of suspected Qaeda members and disrupted at least three
planned attacks in Saudi Arabia and Indonesia, according to
counterterrorism and intelligence officials in Europe and the United States.
...

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