From: Michael Motyka <mmotyka@lsil.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 14:00:28 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Mobile phone tracking, pagers, etc
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Chip Mefford wrote:
> 
> Actually,
> 
> there seems to be a screw up out  there.
> 
> Right now, one can go down the 7/11, and pay
> cash for a prepaid cellphone, and renew it with
> cellphone time cards also purchased with cash.
> 
> No paperwork, NONE.
> 
> I have one.
> 
> While all of the technology applies, and certainly it is possible
> to determine things by analyzing calling habits, I can't see how one
> can easily determine who has cellphone #blahblahblahblahblah when
> you just bought a box at an out of town 7/11 during the breakfast
> rush with cash.
> 
> Esp if one doesn't make a lot of calls.
> 
Tasty. Especially if one's partner in crime has taken the same
precaution.

To the LEAs: technology giveth and technology taketh away.

BTW - do these phones have a modem connector? If not could one be added?
Then you get end-to-end privacy too.