[V8] V8 musings.

[Ingo Rautenberg]

Well, you can supposedly turn the GPS locator off except when dialing  
911.  At least that's how I have my phone set up.

Plus I like the fact that our older cars don't have any ubiquitous  
little black boxes recording or every move like the newer ones do.   
The dreaded 1984 scenario will be here soon enough...

Ingo

On Apr 6, 2006, at 8:19 PM, Karl Middlebrooks wrote:

>
>> ... if you want to get creeped out ... got a cell phone?  Newer cell
>> phones are required to have GPS receivers in them ... here in the USA
>> anyway ... and they *are* able to transmit their actual location ...
>> perhaps even when the phone is turned off ...
>
> Yeah, I find that system troubling as well, and the RFID stuff bugs  
> me, too. I'm a total technophile, not some sort of neo-Luddite, but  
> as much as I like technology, the potential for misuse that you'd  
> never even know about and can't do much to avoid, bothers me. Then  
> again, I drive around in a couple of Audi V8's, which people  
> recognize and remember....so....I guess I can't really be all that  
> worried about stealth. Have to trade the V8's in for a couple of  
> Neon's.
>
>
>> Steve B
>> San José, CA (USA)
>>
>> In point of fact I am skeptical that the phone will report a location
>> when it is turned off ... I just read an article about stupid  
>> mistakes
>> made by CIA operatives when they were "afield" and it indicated that
>> certain agents left the batteries in their cell phones and that it  
>> wasn't
>> enough to turn them off to prevent tracking them ...
>
> Presumably, then, the battery keeps the GPS receiver running at all  
> times, even when the phone is turned off. I imagine at some point  
> the GPS receivers will have their own batteries, and will function  
> as an self-contained embedded system, so that the phone can  
> continuously transmit its location even if the phone battery is  
> removed.
>
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