Re: Cell phones

default wrote:

With today's phones they don't have to triangulate anything - the cell
phone uses GPS (required by law) to transmit its position with great
accuracy in three dimensions.

Utter nonsense. There's no such law in any country I'm aware of, least of
all the US. The 911 system can *use* data from GPS capable phones to
pinpoint you, but if you don't have one of those expensive toys the best
they can do is use info from the cell tower you're connecting to, which
gives them a rough idea of distance from the tower and general direction
(sometimes).

The TV show seems to want people to believe that the phone has to be
turned on to give up its position. That isn't necessarily so. The

Please. Have a trained technician take a look at your foil beanie. It
appears to be leaking badly.

<further paranoid ranting dismissed>

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