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Cell phone tracking.


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I heard once that Tsutomu Shimomura busted Mitnick by triangulating the cell phone that the cracker was using, based on it's signal strength as perceived from 3 different points. Can anybody confirm/deny this, or provide (technical) details regarding this technique?

The math is pretty simple, but I don't know much about cell phones, or hooking them up to computers.


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Watch the 2600 documentary called Freedom Downtime. It's all about the Mitnick case and part of it explains basically what happened when Shimomura tracked him. It's also a very interesting story if you ask me.


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Mitnick is the shit. I wish I grew up in the age of the phreak during the 80s and 90s. Caller ID ruined everything. JK


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Aaand it's 8 years old.