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Re: Another Cellular Vict
C'punks,
On Wed, 22 Jun 1994, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
> Which suggests a "stealth" phone that randomly dithers its round trip
> delay a la GPS selective availability...
>
> Well, I'm not sure how well that would work... The "dither" on the
> RTT can't go negative (for obvious reasons :-) ).
> . . .
Why not? Of course it would reveal the dithering, but your location
would still be ambiguous. One would assume if someone were on the run,
there would be only minimal advantage in have a legitimate looking ping
location. The major emphasis would be in not getting caught.
S a n d y