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From: alain@elevia.UUCP (W.A.Simon)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Cellular phones
Keywords: tracking
Message-ID: <1991May21.110502.775@elevia.UUCP>
Date: 21 May 91 11:05:02 GMT
References: <1991May19.174655.23044@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Organization: The W.A.Simon Wild Life Fund
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In <1991May19.174655.23044@sugar.hackercorp.com> jasona@sugar.hackercorp.com (Jason Asbahr) writes:
>Re: info on phone "polling"
>Interesting!  Where can I find out more about the specifics of this
>cellular protocol?  
>Avoiding tracking still seems simple to me -- just turn the phone off.
>With the older models, that means unplugging it from the cigarette lighter
>(or the power regulator if you're using it indoors) and plugging it in
>whenever you need to use it.  I don't know if the newer handheld models
>can be so easily disconnected.  (This doesn't solve the problem of being
>tracked while using the phone, of course!)
>I have as little to hide as any other good citizen :), but shadowy
>"invasion of privacy" possibilities like this always disturb me. 
>Preventing newly manufactured scanners from receiving 800MHz range may
>soothe some cellular users, but all that really amounts to is preventing
>the general populace from listening in.  Are government agencies similarly
>blocked?  (DEA, FBI, IRS :)

	The crooks will always have "guns".

>          -Jason Asbahr
-- 
William "Alain" Simon
                                                   UUCP: alain@elevia.UUCP