 exocet_cmYou delete it, I'll find itPremium
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1 edit | Boost Mobile The Criminal's Choice in Mobile Communication |
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| How so? Does Boost offer a service that somehow enables criminal behaviour beyond voice/text communication? |
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 44402812Hack The PlanetPremium
join:2006-08-28
Plattsburgh, NY | reply to exocet_cm
Re: Boost Mobile said by exocet_cm:The Criminal's Choice in Mobile Communication [/BQUOTE What can we expect from a cop? We all know they are not the sharpest tools in the shed? |
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exocet_cmYou delete it, I'll find itPremium
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New Orleans, LA
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1 edit | reply to MightyPez
Easy to acquire, cheap to ditch, difficult, if not impossible, to track.
"A concern of police and security agencies world wide is that prepaid mobile services allow the user to be anonymous and therefore facilitate criminal or terrorist activities. As prepaid service is not so much sold as re-sold in bulk in the form of sealed cards, there is no technological means to determine the identity of a prepaid phone user." |
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Relax he was just intending it as a joke. But really, he knows too well many criminals "do" like prepaid.
And I'd rather have him sit next to me then some obnoxious "gangsta" wannabe punk. |
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said by exocet_cm:Easy to acquire, cheap to ditch, difficult, if not impossible, to track. "A concern of police and security agencies world wide is that prepaid mobile services allow the user to be anonymous and therefore facilitate criminal or terrorist activities. As prepaid service is not so much sold as re-sold in bulk in the form of sealed cards, there is no technological means to determine the identity of a prepaid phone user." This would include every single carrier that has a prepaid service like Verizon, ATT, T-Mobile, Virgin and Boost (through Sprint), etc.
Why not ban cell phones since criminals can get others to buy them and do strawman purchases like they do for guns.
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 N3OGHYo Soy Col. "Bat" GuanoPremium
join:2003-11-11
Philly burbs
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said by 44402812:said by exocet_cm:The Criminal's Choice in Mobile Communication [/BQUOTE What can we expect from a cop? We all know they are not the sharpest tools in the shed? That's awfully funny coming from someone who can't even properly quote another user's post without screwing it up... --
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 Smile__Premium
join:2008-10-10
New Freedom, PA | reply to 44402812
Thanks.. I'll let my brother know he is an idiot. Remember that the next time they save your life or stop a burglar trying to get in your home. |
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RadioDoc58ef2c0Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11 | reply to moonpuppy
When prepaid cell phones are outlawed, only outlaws will have prepaid cell phones...
As for Boost, being tethered to Sprint's network means no service unless you are in a major market or within a few hundred yards of an Interstate. No thanks. |
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As others have said, how is this different from every single carrier out there that offers prepaid cellular service? Do you mention AT&T as being the criminals choice when threads about the iPhone come up? |
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You can let him know i said the samething. Especially if he works for the PD in my city where Speedway is the "unofficial" sub-station for my area, and they make a big deal out of helping a lady push her car off the 4lane street because it kept them from getting coffee and doing "paper-work" on their cell phones. |
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 major marcoRes Firma Mitescere NescitPremium
join:2003-02-13
Stepford, CA | reply to exocet_cm
said by exocet_cm:The Criminal's Choice in Mobile Communication Of course since bad things also happen with other products, we should also ban the following. I won't include firearms since I'm sure our esteemed OP LEO takes that as a given.
buckets, bath tubs, pools, hot tubs (drowning)
fireworks (injury)
plastic bags (suffocation)
dog collars/leashes (strangling/choking)
forks, knives, any sharp pointed objects (injury)
The list goes on exponentially as any single item can be "dangerous" in the "wrong" hands. Perhaps Officer Lightbulb should pull his head out of his rear bumper and start living in reality instead of his citation book.
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exocet_cmYou delete it, I'll find itPremium
join:2003-03-23
New Orleans, LA
kudos:2 | reply to exocet_cm
Guys, relax. My one-line comment was more of a joke than anything serious. Relax folks... |
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exocet_cmYou delete it, I'll find itPremium
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New Orleans, LA
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Who is "Officer Lightbulb"? |
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N3OGHYo Soy Col. "Bat" GuanoPremium
join:2003-11-11
Philly burbs
kudos:1 | reply to major marco
I don't believe anyone suggested banning anything except you.
Perhaps we should ban keyboards, as they seem to be the primary way you make yourself look like a snide & cynical fool.....
It amazes me how some folks just can't take a "funny".
Lighten up, Francis.
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 badtripI heart the East BayPremium
join:2004-03-20
Albany, CA | reply to exocet_cm
said by exocet_cm:Easy to acquire, cheap to ditch, difficult, if not impossible, to track. Who cares?
I swear LEOs and politicians are seeming more and more like paranoid schizophrenics every day that goes by. Everyone's a perp and were out to commit crime, especially if we want a cheap phone with no strings attached. |
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said by Smile__:stop a burglar trying to get in your home. Heheh, yeah, right. |
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Just to clear up the issue. This is not necessarily the case depending on the phone you use. Newer (5 yrs old and newer) phones have emergency 911 GPS at a minimum and full GPS is more and more common. Even before GPS, triangulation is pretty accurate. Your travel patterns are constantly tracked and permanently stored. It is much easier than you think to pin down who owns what phone.
But I guess nothing has changed, the less intelligent criminals are why prisons have always been big business since their inception.
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