From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 8 10:16:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D735E37B980 for ; Mon, 8 May 2000 10:16:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost.freebsd.dk [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA19348; Mon, 8 May 2000 19:14:20 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Wes Peters Cc: Olaf Hoyer , Nate Williams , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [OT] Finding people with GSM phones (was Re: GPS heads up ) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 07 May 2000 18:24:04 MDT." <39160924.D00CAF40@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 19:14:20 +0200 Message-ID: <19346.957806060@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <39160924.D00CAF40@softweyr.com>, Wes Peters writes: >> There were some famous cases where some criminals were located by tracking >> down their cell phone. Several cases have been nailed shut here in Denmark on that basis by now, people saying "I were not at home that evening, I was with some friend on the other side of town" and the police then playing a GSM call and showing the area where the phone could have been at the time of the call. They need a court order of for both wire-tapping and getting hold of the location information. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message