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I like this one better: http://www.robandelliot.cycomics.com/archive.php?id=274

It's not XKCD, but... http://www.robandelliot.cycomics.com/archive.php?id=318

Voice Print.

Not that these things would be used against a person just for reporting a crime, but the potential is there.

Me, I use a cell phone to file complaints with the police department. Yes, I have become *that* guy who doesn't hesitate to call the cops. Being a homeowner with an apartment building with redneck tenants across the street turns you into a dime-dropper real quick, and I am getting too old to be a hero. Get drunk and start fighting at 3AM and wake me up, then I am calling the cops. I know my cell phone can be traced, and there are sunshine laws that enable someone who is really determined to find out who filed the report. But the rednecks across the street aren't nearly smart enough and don't have the resources to track me down anyhow.

Using a cell phone and remaining anonymous is safe. If you are scared of that, you have to follow a certain path of logic that involves collusion between the police dept and the person committing the crime. You'd have to be pretty paranoid to follow that path, unless you have some organized crime stuff going on.

But if you want to be realistic, then you have to realize that *any* form of electronic communication can be tracked and traced. Pay phone, cell phone, anything. Don't like that? Then stay off the grid

I'd love an iMonkey from Rob and Eliot's comic.

Baron von Doomsday uses MySpace. Bow down before his might!

With bioengineering being the latest and greatest.. I'm hoping they introduce one of these.. http://www.robandelliot.cycomics.com/archive.php?i d=72 Rock on!

Do they make iSocks that fit an iMonkey? http://www.robandelliot.cycomics.com/archive.php?i d=72