From: David Miller <dm0@avana.net>
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1998 13:26:17 +0800
To: cypherpunks@Algebra.COM
Subject: Re: Location Escrow anyone ?
In-Reply-To: <199801010433.XAA16928@users.invweb.net>
Message-ID: <34AB3639.296E74E9@avana.net>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain



William H. Geiger III wrote:
> 
>>ZURICH (December 28, 1997 4:12 p.m. EST http://www.nando.net) - Swiss
>>police have secretly tracked the whereabouts of mobile phone users via a
>>telephone company computer that records billions of movements going back
>>more than half a year, a Sunday newspaper reported.
> 
> Don't be fooled that this is a swiss only problem. It's being done here
> in Amerika right now.

You betcha.  A couple of years ago, there was a _tremendous_ need for
programmers to produce "cellular accounting/billing" software in Atlanta
in preparation for the Olympics.  However, apparently the Olympic Park
bomber was not carrying a cellular at the time, so alas, another crime
has gone unsolved...  

Gee, I wonder which carrier Ted Kaczynski will be doing wireless
endorsements for?

--David Miller

middle  rival
devil rim lad

Windows '95 -- a dirty, two-bit operating system.