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Echelon Used to Capture Terrorist

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the lets-be-rational-people dept.

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. But is it him? by Ravenscall · · Score: 5, Informative

    Considering This and This, He may already be dead.

    I find the entire thing suspect personally.

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  2. Re:Can find you even if your mobile is turned off by johnjaydk · · Score: 5, Informative
    That is a bit to paranoid and wrong at least with regard to GSM.

    What we can do is start and maintain a dialog with any phone that is turned on. This in turn enables the triangulation. The phone does not indicate this to the user in any way unless you put it next to your speaker/tv/etc that picks up the transmission.

    In fact this is done every two to eight hours (operator specific) in order to determine roughly where the phone is so the network can route incomming calls to the phone.

    TCAP-Abort

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