[92571] in Cypherpunks
Re: Location Escrow anyone ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Miller)
Thu Jan 1 00:47:44 1998
Date: Thu, 01 Jan 1998 01:22:49 -0500
From: David Miller <dm0@avana.net>
To: cypherpunks@algebra.com
Reply-To: David Miller <dm0@avana.net>
William H. Geiger III wrote:
>
>>ZURICH (December 28, 1997 4:12 p.m. EST http://www.nando.net) - Swiss
>>police have secretly tracked the whereabouts of mobile phone users via a
>>telephone company computer that records billions of movements going back
>>more than half a year, a Sunday newspaper reported.
>
> Don't be fooled that this is a swiss only problem. It's being done here
> in Amerika right now.
You betcha. A couple of years ago, there was a _tremendous_ need for
programmers to produce "cellular accounting/billing" software in Atlanta
in preparation for the Olympics. However, apparently the Olympic Park
bomber was not carrying a cellular at the time, so alas, another crime
has gone unsolved...
Gee, I wonder which carrier Ted Kaczynski will be doing wireless
endorsements for?
--David Miller
middle rival
devil rim lad
Windows '95 -- a dirty, two-bit operating system.
