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Re: SkyTel 2Way pagers DOWN all US

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dean Anderson)
Wed May 20 02:01:35 1998

In-Reply-To: <199805200515.BAA02246@heimdall.ttsg.com>
Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 01:54:32 -0400
To: TTSG <ttsg@ttsg.com>, bnite@tremere.ios.com (Golan Ben-Oni)
From: Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>
Cc: mrizzo@origin.ea.com, nanog@merit.edu

>other .5% problem), I told her if I was ever kidnapped to call Skytel as
>they had to be able to track where I was.  The woman on the phone "would
>neither confirm nor deny" that possibility.  She referenced a privacy
>issue and didn't want to say more.

Interesting. Of course, we know from the OJ saga that Cellphones can be
located well enough to find a moving vehicle...

		--Dean


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