From: koontzd@lrcs.loral.com (David Koontz )
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 93 10:52:58 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Beepers can also be used to track you down!
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>Basically, they'd send pings to your beeper throughout the city they expected
>you in, then they'd find out which cell you were in.  After that, they can
>use a small radar-like gun to actually find your beeper, also by pings.

>There's probably a way to disable the transmitter in the beeper, but I

All you need is a faraday cage, an all metal enclosure with metal to metal
contacts between all its surfaces.  A Copper brillo type scrub pad, expanded
out to make a pocket big enough for the pager.