[102989] in Cypherpunks
Re: Mobile phone tracking, pagers, etc
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Motyka)
Fri Sep 18 15:16:20 1998
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 11:23:54 -0700
From: Michael Motyka <mmotyka@lsil.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: Michael Motyka <mmotyka@lsil.com>
Chip Mefford wrote:
>
> Actually,
>
> there seems to be a screw up out there.
>
> Right now, one can go down the 7/11, and pay
> cash for a prepaid cellphone, and renew it with
> cellphone time cards also purchased with cash.
>
> No paperwork, NONE.
>
> I have one.
>
> While all of the technology applies, and certainly it is possible
> to determine things by analyzing calling habits, I can't see how one
> can easily determine who has cellphone #blahblahblahblahblah when
> you just bought a box at an out of town 7/11 during the breakfast
> rush with cash.
>
> Esp if one doesn't make a lot of calls.
>
Tasty. Especially if one's partner in crime has taken the same
precaution.
To the LEAs: technology giveth and technology taketh away.
BTW - do these phones have a modem connector? If not could one be added?
Then you get end-to-end privacy too.
