Re: I can't be the only one.
James Linder <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.org.user-groups.slug.general |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 27 Feb 2014, at 5:29 am, [email protected] wrote: > I've just had my smartphone stolen. > > I asked a friend to dial the number: I can hear it ringing. > > Asked the police forensic expert - can it be triangulated? Yes, but (always > there's a but). In the cities, where the uprights are in high > concentration, triangulation can be accurate to within a couple of metres. > In the country (where I live), with the uprights widely spaced, accuracy > goes out to a couple of kilometres. > > So I got to thinking. Isn't there an app, which, when installed on the > phone, enables you to contact the phone (ie., it must merely be on), send a > password/code (whether the phone is answered/not): the phone then takes a > GPS reading and transmits it to the caller? > > Or have I been reading too many sci-fi novels? Actually it is even worse: Every phone has a unique number. You can find a phone anywhere in the world on any sim BUT the carriers won’t do that because of commercial reasons not technical ones. Uuuuurgh James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html