From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 6 12:39:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2C9437B733; Sat, 6 May 2000 12:39:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA06891; Sat, 6 May 2000 13:39:43 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA18540; Sat, 6 May 2000 13:39:42 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate) Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 13:39:42 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200005061939.NAA18540@nomad.yogotech.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Mike Smith Cc: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [OT] Finding people with GSM phones (was Re: GPS heads up ) In-Reply-To: <200005061907.MAA07403@mass.cdrom.com> References: <200005061850.MAA18384@nomad.yogotech.com> <200005061907.MAA07403@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > Ask him if they can still do it at 35km out (the outer limit for a normal > > > GSM cell). That'd really spook me. 8) > > > > He wasn't interested in talking about it when I started asking about > > single cell towers, so I never pressed him on the issue. Maybe he was > > afraid that the 100m accuracy claim would be found out to be un-doable, > > but the Feds claim 'it must be that accurate', and they aren't > > interested in spending the $$ for GPS receivers in the handhelds. > > What's the actual background behind this? Being able to track 911 calls in the case of emergency. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message