Chrissy Cruiser wrote:
>On Sun, 1 May 2005 11:22:30 +0200, Ken Tough wrote:
>> I'm surprised by how many people don't know that tracking every
>> movement of someone with a standard cell phone is just a matter
>> of a few keystrokes.
>It's a co-conspiracy here, Ken, as the cell phone makers offer little to no
>assistance in either advancing that knowledge or in supplying the
>information on how to switch it off.
Huh? The power button is pretty rudimentary. (There is no way to
"switch off tracking" aside from shutting off the phone. The locating
of the phone is inherent in the transmission with the cell base station)
>MOF, I was unaware of this until about
>a year ago when a savvy GPS coder showed me his GSM phone and how he had
>dismantled the signal.
There is no GPS in GSM. He was shitting you.
>Sure is. Take Google for instance. It tracks your IP and your Googling
>preferences, look to the right sometime and you will find, on a Google
>search, that there is an advertisement that has little to nothing to do
>with that search. Hey, I was looking for . and got an ad for pink
>sweaters. How the heck did they know I liked pink sweaters :)?
Sure. They even translate www.google.com to www.google.co.za and
there's nothing I can do about it. (Not that it matters)
>I noticed a thing here and there in the headers that were left as a clues
>of it being OK by the author so I dloaded it and it was a 3D barcode. Full
>color, rotating, can be invisibly embedded, read from any angle, virtual
>barcode. I kid you not. The uses of this thing are staggering. The color
>spectrum makes it readable at unknown distances.
>I didn't know whether to laugh, cry or run. So I put a Guttman erasure on
>it, removed my thumb drive and placed it under the rear tire of my car and
>crushed it.
Keep the tinfoil hat on.
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