Peter van Dijk wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 11:59:20AM -0600, Fred Lindberg wrote:
> > On Tue, 30 Mar 1999 12:27:26 -0500, Adam D. McKenna wrote:
> >
> > >I'm not sure what they think he could do with a cell phone that he couldn't
> > >do with a regular phone?
> >
> > Cell phones have 64-bit encryption computers that use 56 bit keys in
> > them ;-)
>
> Well if the police/government/anybody wants to eavesdrop on him that's dead easy for
> the phone company. Over here in .nl, mobile carriers are _required_ to be technically
> able to place taps. We're also country with the highest relative number of taps.
>
They should require him to have a cell phone. Here in the Land of the
Free the FBI is trying to implement real-time people-tracking using cell
phones. (A logical extension of the ruling that 9-1-1 calls have to be
triangulated and located to within 100 meters.) The cellular operators
are resisting because of the costs, but the FBI will probably win out.
