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Echelon Used to Capture Terrorist

An anonymous reader writes "Echelon was used to track and capture Khalid Sheikh Mohammed." Ahh, bitter sweet victories. The article kind of explains what Echelon is, and pretty much says that those disposable phones really don't have much security at all.

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  1. heh by JeanBaptiste · · Score: 5, Funny

    Looks like mr Mohammed wasn't wearing his tinfoil hat...

  2. Re:Hypocrite terrorists by anon*127.0.0.1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    If they stuck with the sticks and clubs, no one would be after them. Running a camel into the WTC would not have caused much damage.

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    I am NOT a man!
    I am a free number!
  3. Re:Can find you even if your mobile is turned off by loucura! · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's why I (as a card-carrying paranoid whacko) take apart my cell-phone every night before bed.

    First I was fine just removing the battery... but then I remembered that capacitors carry a residual charge, and if I remembered that, then the Man knows it. So, now I take apart each individual component, except for the LCD...

    You don't think they can track me by the LCD do you?

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    Black and grey are both shades of white.
  4. Re:Can find you even if your mobile is turned off by n-baxley · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hah! I smash my phone with a hamer each night. That's starting to get expensive though. I think this guy may have something with taking the battery out.

  5. Re:But is it him? by Highwayman · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have reason to believe they may have snagged Ron Jeremy instead! Don't believe me, do a side by side comparison of "Mohammed" and Ron Jeremy. Only one way to know for sure, though.

  6. Re:So, is Echelon good now? by Skirwan · · Score: 4, Funny
    Tools not have moral
    Tools have moral. Fire bad!