Cell Phone Tracking and Bugging
photo by Jurvetson (flickr)
Tell your average hipster that they can use VZ Navigator on their phone to get directions to the coolest new club through a GPS chip in their phone, and they’ll probably think its pretty neat. Tell the same thing to your average healthily paranoid geek, and they’ll hopefully question how else it might be used. Sure its cool, but if Verizon can do it, so can the government. On top of that, they may also turn on on your mic even when you’re not on a call. In a follow up to my article on FBI cell phone tapping, we’ll be discussing how you can be tracked on your cellphone, and under what circumstances.
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d00d 3:52 am on 6/12/2009 Permalink
Well I personally think that more people should use brightkite.com
Like a certain blogger, who shall remain nameless at this time.
Catalina 12:54 pm on 6/12/2009 Permalink
inorite?
Euicho 5:43 pm on 6/12/2009 Permalink
Lol yes yes I should. I’ll start using it more when I travel away from Bangor.
Nyrath 9:05 am on 6/14/2009 Permalink
Well, to me the difference is that one can follow a given person’s tweets without the permission of that person. But you can’t examine somebody’s facebook wall unless they specifically let you.
B 9:57 pm on 6/15/2009 Permalink
really it’s just annoying to manage so many things unless you have a system setup, which is why i am only managing my facebook for my personal updates. I am still using twitter but only for my work stuff since I only need to keep track of my daily activities. And really no one was updating for my twitter friends other than the great euicho and I could read his twitter posts on facebook, so thus I didn’t need it.
euicho 1:40 pm on 6/16/2009 Permalink
Both very true.
Having a system was crucial for me. I don’t care too much for updating my facebook status, but since twitter does it automatically I set it up. Also, I like brightkite, but wouldn’t want to update that AND twitter each time. Luckily, brightkite updates twitter for me if I use it. And Yahoo Fire Eagle brokers my location info between any services I allow so I can control my privacy levels.
Without things updating one another it becomes a social networking nightmare/fuster-cluck