Re: [Trisquel-users] A phone without GPS

[shiretoko]

"There would have to be some way to scan for towers for it to be easy to use,  
and doing this just once would be enough to possibly infer your position. You  
also wouldn't be able to move as easily, since you need to keep pointing the  
antenna at the tower"

I think you're exaggerating . A device which searches for the nearest tower  
increasing the angle of direction and stops once he receives a signal (all  
this automatically) would not be able to get tracked and we can be sure it's  
technically possible;
adjusting something due to an incoming signal is very often done in modern  
technology; think of cars which do parallel parking automatically;
The only problem I can think of is the case when the cell phone sends a  
signal and hits a tower, but the tower is too far away for sufficiant signal  
amplitude; the next tower with higher signal amplitude would reveal your  
position.
But this can be prevented using an artifically low scanning signal which hits  
only towers nearby.