[92601] in Cypherpunks
Re: Mobile phones used as trackers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Schear)
Thu Jan 1 14:45:32 1998
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 18:53:07 -0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Steve Schear <schear@lvdi.net>
Reply-To: Steve Schear <schear@lvdi.net>
> Mobile phones used as trackers=20
> BY MICHAEL EVANS AND NIGEL HAWKES=20
>
> MOBILE PHONES can be used as tracking devices to
> pinpoint users within a few hundred yards, according to a
> report yesterday.=20
>
> Sonntags Zeitung, published in Zurich, said Swiss police
> had been secretly tracking mobile phone users through a
> telephone company computer.=20
>
> "Swisscom [the state-owned telephone company] has
> stored data on the movements of more than a million
> mobile phone users and can call up the location of all its
> mobile subscribers down to a few hundred metres and
> going back at least half a year," the paper reports, adding:
> "When it has to, it can exactly reconstruct, down to the
> minute, who met whom, where and for how long for a
> confidential tte--tte."=20
Anyone who desires not to be constantly tracked should carry a one-way pager=
and keep your cell phone turned off. This way you can return calls when it=
suits you and from a location of your choosing. In some U.S. localities I=
understand, it it possible to rent cellphone w/o offering any form of ID,=
only a deposit to cover the instrument and a prepayment for the airtime =
This may be illegal in some EU countries. To keep someone from correlating=
your pager info and cellular you'd want your callers to send 'coded' info,=
rather than phone numbers.
--Steve
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