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Tracking Via Anonymous SIM Cards

Posted by michael on from the leaving-a-calling-card dept.

Noryungi writes "The New York Times reports that Al Qaeda operatives were tracked using the ID of the GSM phone chips sold by a Swiss company named Swisscom. Very interesting."

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  1. It's their own fault by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    for buying 867-5309.

  2. Nice troll, but as everyone knows, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    it was the Freemasons that shot down TWA 800.

  3. HA! by leifm · · Score: 5, Funny

    So they think I am always in my underwear drawer, since that is where the SIM card for my last GSM phone has resided for the last year.

    TDMA for life!

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    "Windows Me offers tremendous reliability and stability improvements..." -- Paul Thurott
  4. cell phones aren't secure. who cares? by surreal-maitland · · Score: 4, Funny

    a little terrifying, but not so terrifying that i'm going to stop using my cell phone. hey, i don't fit the profile and i only discuss my evil plans back-to-back through a voice modulator. and my secret code is way cooler than thirty seconds of silence.

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    -ninjaneer
  5. Re:Just the reason. by JVert · · Score: 4, Funny

    Or made a deposit at the bank... EVERYONE knows they pull fingerprints from checks you deposit. And if you are foolish enough to leave a strain of your hair that may have fallen into the envelope? Well you might as well just buy some guns, scratch off the serial numbers and leave it at a crime scene with a lock of hair.

    Thats why I always carry a false ID. I use public internet cafes often with my fake fingerprints and I always leave some skin deposits from my "alternate" on the keyboard. The daily exfoliation in the shower was difficult to adjust to, my skin stays very red for at least 2 hours but I have found some nice cream that seems to be working for the redness and also blocks my natural body oders (not the perfume for your armpits but the kind that will keep bloodhounds from tracking you!)