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From: Robert Watkins <bob@**.NTU.EDU.AU>
Subject: Re: Easy Unbreakable Encryption!
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1995 09:10:02 +0930
Duke Diener wrote:
>
> Marc wrote:
>
> > If they are all using frequencies that are close enough together
> >to prevent triangulation, they are all having the same conversation.
>
> I could tell you how we do it in the military but then I'd have to kill
> you...slowly...
> actually it would not be hard to track a Cell-Phone in a city as long as it
> were turned on and transmitting some signal.

If you knew the signal, knew what it changed to when it crossed into
another cell (cracking the phone company in real time, what fun...), and
were withing the very small footprint of the signal. And that's TODAY, let
alone in 60 odd years, with an obsessive culture of secrecy prevalent
amongst the corporations.

--
Robert Watkins bob@**.ntu.edu.au
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are around at 9 am, it's because they were up all night.
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