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From: itm!brent@gatech.edu (Brent)
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Subject: Re: Cellular Phones and Big Brother
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Date: 6 Apr 89 17:43:56 GMT
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X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 129, message 6 of 11


    Indeed Big Brother is watching.  I discussed cellular fraud
with a tech person who works with a cellular provider.  When they
detect a fradulent user (he claimed they could detect such a person
the first time they used the phone), they put their number on a
"fraudlent" list and included the geographic area (cell) where
they were.  Then I guess they look for patterns.

        brent laminack (gatech!itm!brent)