[Rodney King]

If I am ever wanted I am going to turn my cell phone on and tape it to the underside of a truck heading cross-country.

[JRandomFreeper]

A buddy of mine worked on a program immediately after 9-11 to help locate the cell-phones and pagers at the Twin-towers site. It's amazing how close those guys can get with the information off of the switch and RBSs.

/john

[MarkWar]

>If I am ever wanted I am going to turn my cell phone on and tape it to the underside of a truck heading cross-country.

[smiles] They'll get you when you log in to FR! (Think you'll be able to stay off just because the Feds are after you?!)

Mark W.

[Rebelbase]

There was a thread about this cell phone trace technique a few months ago here on FR. That method is how they found Pablo Ecobar in Columbia.

[blackdog]

What kind of woman would compel you to tape your cell phone to a truck? ;o)

[hc87]

Robin Gross, an attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, warned that the technology could be abused. She said cell phone tracking could be used to follow the movements of political dissenters or politicians and other people in power.

Personally, I object to the existence of prisons cells with iron bars. They could be used to restrict the movements of political dissenters or politicians and other people in power.

[Slainte]

If I am ever wanted I am going to turn my cell phone on and tape it to the underside of a truck heading cross-country.

My first thought exactly. I suppose that just shows that I'm and sociopathic criminal just waiting for the opportunity to snap...and take out my frustrations on rural mailboxes? What a weird world we live in.

A long time ago, I toyed with the idea of going to law school, and while considering my next move, I interned at the Hennepin County Public Defender's office right after graduating from college (it's always good to intern after you've earned your degree. You don't make any money AND you don't earn any credits). The interns interviewed the clients, witnesses, victims, etc., and prepared reports, timelines etc. for the PD's to use at trial. Of course, the vast majority of cases pleaded out and never got that far, bu it was incredibly eye opening. Two things that I learned-

1.) If you find yourself in the middle of a gang shooting make sure you are the target, because the odds are the only people who will be hit are innocent bystanders.

2.) None of the clients I interviewed ever thought they would be caught. Every one of them was certain that they were smarter than the police, sherriff, BCA, and the County Attorney combined (OK, to be fair, I doubt any of them actually knew than Minnesota has a BCA...). I found this attitude amazing. How arrogant do you have to be to have that sort of worldview? And how naive? Even if you were smarter than each and every individual in law enforcement, at what point do they start to out think you just by sheer force of numbers? I think that attitude is common among criminals though. On the other hand, I'm absolutely certain that I'm going to be audited, pulled over for speeding, fined for watering my lawn on an even day or whatever. Somehow, I got the sense of guilt drilled into me early on, and it never, ever goes away.

You know, there was a more pertinent point when I started writing that seems to have escaped me at the moment...