Cell Phone Locater
strabo
In case there are still non-believers, here is the next step in
making sure you are where you're supposed to be.
To defeat this devious 'feature' you must kill the power.
Not just turn the phone off but disconnect the battery.
In some phones the battery terminals may be blocked with
a thin piece of non-conducting material leaving the battery
in place. Or, you can go into the phone case and wire an
external switch between the battery terminals and the circuit.
April 1, 2008
The Facebook tool which turns your mobile into a snoop
A woman driving whilst using a mobile phone
The positioning software is able to pin down a location using data
obtained from mobile phone base stations
Adam Sherwin, Media Correspondent
Husbands who are not where they are supposed to be could soon be in
danger of being “sniffed” out by a mobile phone service that gives
suspicious partners an electronic map showing the location of their spouse.
The Social Network Integrated Friend Finder (Sniff) is a new
application, accessed via Facebook or mobile phone, which could bring an
end to frantic “Where r u?” text messages.
The service, popular in Scandinavia, promises to provide users with a
detailed map of their friends’ locations, any time and anywhere.
However, there are fears that Sniff could be abused by employers to
remove the last vestiges of privacy from staff.
Useful Networks, the American company behind Sniff, promised that only
consumers who gave their permission could be electronically tracked by
the service, which operates across all mobile carriers. The company
plans to charge users about 75p for each location “sniff”, with the
results for mobile customers sent by return SMS. But “sniffing” could
become addictive.
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It will be the first Facebook application to apply premium charges to
customers’ mobile bills. The heaviest users in Sweden are
wireless-connected members of the social networking site, who have
integrated the application into their personal profile page.
“Sniffing” works through similar technology used by the police to track
down suspected terrorists or missing children via their mobile phones.
The phone sends a signal to nearby base stations. Positioning software
performs a triangulation calculation on the information from the base
stations and converts it into a geographical location.
Brian Levin, chief executive officer of Useful Networks, told The Times:
“Personal privacy is paramount and sniffing should only be used by
people you can trust. It is a fun way to solve the proven most popular
text message, ‘Where r u?’”
Travellers who find themselves lost in a new city could also make use of
the service. “You can ‘sniff’ yourself if you really need to,” Mr Levin
said.
But employees who are enjoying a long lunch or a secret liaison instead
of the business meeting in their diary could also find themselves
“sniffed out”. Mr Levin said: “If the employer is paying the phone bill
and employees are aware they can be ‘sniffed’, at least everyone knows
those are the rules.”
Work surveillance is an increasing concern. Last week the German
supermarket chain Lidl was accused of using Stasi-style methods to spy
on its staff and collect details of their personal lives.
Mr Levin, who created the text-message voting system for American Idol,
also cautioned that sniffing should not be used by parents to tag young
children. The service will only place your location within a radius of
about 200m (650ft).
Useful Networks, owned by the American giant Liberty Media, hopes to
introduce “sniffing” in Britain this month.
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"strabo" <str...@flashlight.net> wrote in message
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I just saw this on Drudge. This technology has been around for awhile now.
Isn't this how they tracked OJ Simpson in the white Ford Bronco? Also more
recently I remember some guy affixed a cellphone to his ex's vehicle so he
can track her down. If you think this is bad just think of how much
information the Government has at its fingertips about anyone anytime
whether its were you are, what you watch, or how and were you spend your
money. Simple every day things like E-Z Pass keeps tracks of your daily
activities. Oh also what you say on the phone and internet too.
Got a kick out of this article, "German hackers threaten to publish Merkel's
fingerprints". Link:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080331180923.7bhdhdsj&show_article=1
Tooshay!!! lol.... :)
strabo
No. Too early.
O.J. was tracked by television news helicopters.
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> Also more
> recently I remember some guy affixed a cellphone to his ex's vehicle so he
> can track her down. If you think this is bad just think of how much
> information the Government has at its fingertips about anyone anytime
> whether its were you are, what you watch, or how and were you spend your
> money. Simple every day things like E-Z Pass keeps tracks of your daily
> activities. Oh also what you say on the phone and internet too.
>
A bribe to the right person will get you any of that information.
>
> Got a kick out of this article, "German hackers threaten to publish Merkel's
> fingerprints". Link:
> http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080331180923.7bhdhdsj&show_article=1
>
Appropriate.
And just think, all the candidates passports were recently copied.
US passports, with all that digital information, are being outsourced.
>
> Tooshay!!! lol.... :)
Terryc
>
> In case there are still non-believers, here is the next step in
> making sure you are where you're supposed to be.
Has anyone actually seen this app?
> April 1, 2008
> The Facebook tool which turns your mobile into a snoop
> A woman driving whilst using a mobile phone
OTOH, the Italians are tracking people carrying mobile phone to enable
them to improve the "traffic" situation, both motor and pedestrian.
ND
Negative, he was first caught by using his cellphone. The technology was
certainly there, all it was scanning the frequency bands used for cellphones
and the one OJ had assigned to his phone.
strabo
Negatory, good buddy. There was no such thing as a cellphone in 1994.
While there were mobile phones in use, they did not employ a cellular
antenna network or GPS. They were VHF radios with a handset and were
not trackable. In any event, a phone was not the instrument of Simpson's
discovery.
"A sheriff's patrol car saw a white Ford Bronco belonging to Simpson's
friend, Al Cowlings, going south on Interstate 405. When the officer
approached the Bronco, Cowlings, who was driving, yelled that Simpson
had a gun to his own head. The officer backed off but followed the
vehicle with Simpson in a slow-speed chase.
For some time a Los Angeles News Service helicopter contracted by KCBS
had exclusive coverage of the chase, but by the end of the chase they
had been joined by about a dozen others. NBC interrupted coverage of the
1994 NBA Finals to air the pursuit.
Radio station KNX also provided live coverage of the slow-speed pursuit.
USC sports announcer Pete Arbogast and station producer Oran Sampson
contacted former USC coach John McKay to go on the air and encourage
Simpson to end the pursuit. McKay agreed and asked Simpson to pull over
and turn himself in instead of committing suicide.
Numerous spectators and on-lookers packed overpasses along the
procession's journey. Some had signs urging Simpson to flee and others
were caught up in a festival-like atmosphere.
The chase ended at Simpson's Brentwood home, where he was allowed to go
inside for a short time before surrendering himself to authorities."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._J._Simpson_murder_case
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>>> Also more
>>> recently I remember some guy affixed a cellphone to his ex's vehicle so
>>> he can track her down. If you think this is bad just think of how much
>>> information the Government has at its fingertips about anyone anytime
>>> whether its were you are, what you watch, or how and were you spend your
>>> money. Simple every day things like E-Z Pass keeps tracks of your daily
>>> activities. Oh also what you say on the phone and internet too.
>>>
>> A bribe to the right person will get you any of that information.
>>
>>> Got a kick out of this article, "German hackers threaten to publish
>>> Merkel's fingerprints". Link:
>>> http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080331180923.7bhdhdsj&show_article=1
>>>
>> Appropriate.
>>
>> And just think, all the candidates passports were recently copied.
>>
>> US passports, with all that digital information, are being outsourced.
>>
>>
>>
>>> Tooshay!!! lol.... :)
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