Courts and bug product

[Roland Perry]

In article <4f707698d1ukcrypto@vigay.com>, Paul Vigay 
<ukcrypto@vigay.com> writes
>Donning my tinfoil hat, perhaps I could point you to a Washington Post
>article at
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/22/AR2007112201444.html which briefly covers some incidents that have come to
>light.

Yes, but that's the USA, and I'm still sceptical that it's "all new 
phones for the last two years" rather than "some new phones recently" 
that have a 'secret' GPS chip in. Let alone in Europe.

An interesting conflation emerged about ten years ago (when this 
location stuff started to get legs) which was actually the use of GPS to 
accurately map where the phone masts were. Previously they had just been 
slung on convenient hilltops and no-one knew exactly where (close enough 
for them to useful in a triangulation scheme, anyway). So you get a 
story about GPS aiding mobile phone location...

Meanwhile, if it's a "well known fact" that new phones all have GPS 
chips in, why all the speculation over GPS addons for iPhones? Just use 
the chip it "has" inside, already.

-- 
Roland Perry