Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 12:09:15 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Olaf Hoyer <ohoyer@fbwi.fh-wilhelmshaven.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [OT] Finding people with GSM phones (was Re: GPS heads up ) Message-ID: <200005061909.MAA07423@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 06 May 2000 20:53:25 %2B0200." <4.1.20000506204714.00cd5290@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de>
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> There were some famous cases where some criminals were located by tracking > down their cell phone. The police needed some decision from court to do > that, but after that, it was a short way to go. The GSM nets have some of > this ability built in, to track phones. The operators only don't want the > "normal" citizen or user to know about that. This capability of GSM was well known when it was introduced in .au, but when my phone was stolen, the telco bastards wouldn't admit to being able to tell me anything about where it was (even though I could still call it...). What's being proposed here sounds just slightly scary. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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