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I wrote my thoughts on the subject of life after death a while back.

Basically, you are saying that your consciousness might not be linked to the physical body and brain. However, we know that if the human brain is damaged, it irrecovably alters a persons character. If you die in this world, and your consciousness suddenly attached itself to another body/brain in another world/universe, you wouldn't be 'you' anymore. You wouldn't have any of the experience, memories, brain structure, etc which shaped your individual character.

If the phone had CellTrack installed on it, we could have had more fun... ... but we found the prick, got the phone back, so I guess I can't complain ;)

http://zone-mr.net/?act=entry&id=36

Last Saturday, MoDaCo (the world's largest smartphone community) held a get-together for their forum members. Unfortunately the positive community spirit was soured by an individual who decided to steal one of the charity raffle prizes - a C550 mobile phone.

On Monday, Paul O'Brien (MoDaCo founder) contacted me with information on the stolen phone's IMEI number. I operate the SPV-Developers community which offers the free online SPV-Services unlock tool for this type of phone. It seemed likely that the thief would attempt to remove the SIMLock using this service in order to switch the phone to a non-UK network - bypassing the UK's IMEI blacklist which renders stolen phones useless.

Initially it seemed like there was little I could do to help. The SPV-Services server was not programmed to log the IMEI numbers of it's users. It seemed like a dead end, until I remembered something. When a user unlocks their phone, our server keeps a backup of the phone's first flash block (kept for a few days, in case the changes need to be reversed). This block contains 64kB of RSA-encrypted data such as the phone's SIMLock state, Carrier ID, and other concealed information - it seemed likely the IMEI would be buried within it. Shortly my suspicion was confirmed - after decrypting the block, the IMEI can be found inside (albeit scrambled with a simple transposition).

I started writing a short script - which would check each backup in turn to see if it originated from the stolen phone. After 30 minutes of writing, testing, and running the script - we had a match! The stolen phone had been unlocked. The creation timestamp on the backup file gave us an exact time - August 21, 2005, 10:18:32 PM.

The next step was cross-referencing this information with our web server logs. When a user uses our software to unlock their phone the software uploads the encrypted block to our server, which sends back a list of modifications which need to be made in order to remove the SIMLock. As we knew the exact time when this happened, we could find the corresponding web server entry :

        2005-08-21 22:18:32 POST /services/simlock_2.php - 82.163.137.156

Bingo! I passed this IP address back to Paul who cross-referenced it with Modaco's database. From this, he was able to identify the guilty member. A quick lookup confirmed that the IP was used by the account "Cocky" - a member which had attended the get-together. The event registrations contained the name of our theif, and his mobile number. The next day, Cocky (AKA Krassen P.) received a short phone call:

        Paul: Hi, this is Paul from MoDaCo.
        Cocky: Er, Hi.
        Paul: You have something of mine, and I want it back.

Not surprisingly, Paul could hear the faint sound of the guy crapping himself at the other end of the line. The phone was returned, via special delivery, the following day. Moral of the story - even if you're enough of a cunt to steal from a charity raffle, don't be fucktarded enough to steal a phone from a community of phone experts.

Yeah, GSM CellID is a great way for getting a quick-and-dirty position. Since most people always have their phones with them, some kewk stuff can be done:

http://www.zone-mr.net/?act=CellTrack

The downside is that accuracy sucks. Even the 50m you gave is wishful thinking, and probably assumes a city with a high density of cells, and nice linear relation between signal strength and distance.

If you have done some legitimate research into this, and have some useful findings, please post them here.

If you are one of the many people who believe all "Radiation" is inherently harmful, and GSM/WiFi/WiMAX is bad, I hate you ;)

http://www.zone-mr.net/?act=cellrant

no boothe babes ?

They were there, but IMHO it's a bad thing.

no boothe babes ?

They were there, but IMHO it's a bad thing.

I saw this demonstrated last weekend, on my trip to CeBIT.

Here's a close up picture I took.

My impressions of it were that it seemed very big - would have been a lot more impressive had they miniaturised it a bit.

I saw this demonstrated last weekend, on my trip to CeBIT.

Here's a close up picture I took.

My impressions of it were that it seemed very big - would have been a lot more impressive had they miniaturised it a bit.

Err. I meant here.