 RARPSL
join:1999-12-08
Suffern, NY | reply to MrMoody
Re: Only now? said by MrMoody:Mobile phones have had GPS in them for years and people are only now realizing they can be used to track you? Some Cell Phone Companies are selling this capability as a feature. For example, when you buy a Cell Phone for your children they offer the capability to track them via a web site. I think that those "Children's Phones" are trackable even when they are powered off (ie: The GPS Responder is on a separate circuit that is not affected by the On/Off switch) and the only way to cripple it is to remove the battery.
As to tracking via Cell Phone, this capability is used on Crime Shows (CSI, NCIS, etc.) all the time which should be a tip off to the public that it can be done (although you must take some of the show's usage with a grain of salt since they show things for dramatic purposes that are not actually possible yet). |
