Cell phone trackers

I just met with a friend who was all freaked out about this. I guess I've been living in a vacuum because I've never heard of this. I went on a few sites and looked at some of this and it appears that the only way someone can do this is if the target phone has Internet capability. Is that correct? Also can someone tell if another person has loaded the software necessary to do this onto their phone? Can a phone without GPS capabilities be hacked in this fashion? This really has me thinking now. Is there nothing sacred anymore? Thanks for any information. Lenny

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klem kedidelhopper
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Not necessarily. A cell phone communicates by encoding digital information onto a RF carrier. At least in theory that communication can include everything from the strength of the received signal, the picture you just took of a car, or your location to within 30 feet and direction of movement.

This can be done very crudely by the wireless company by determining relative signal strenghts of the signal at the nearest towers.

Mom's Apple Pie. Who knows what is in a hot dog? Baseball is dominated by self agrandizing show-offs.

As far as a supposed right to privacy, the Conservative members of the SCOTUS have already decreed that does not exist.

PlainBill

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PlainBill

You have to know the phone number of the target and about minimum 30 seconds access to this phone, left unattended on a table or something. You prearrange with the tracking company, then when it is available to you, you send a validation code from the target phone and go into the menu to delete record of this validation use.

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N_Cook

Well,you always have the option of leaving the phone at home, or (at least on many models) removing the battery. THAT will stop it from sending data.

--Tim Bristol Electronics

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Tim Schwartz

Is that really what it's come to? Lenny

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klem kedidelhopper

Is that really what it's come to? Lenny

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Has anyone tried listening to a radio on a coach or train these days? All those chirps at regular intervals of all these "trackers" phoning home to tell Big Brother where they are. The chirp signature itself would give a reasonable (walking pace as circa minute spaced chirps) close range tracking facility without paying any third party company .

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N_Cook

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