From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 7 23:47:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from not.demophon.com (x78.iscape.fi [195.170.146.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F30137B51C for ; Sun, 7 May 2000 23:47:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from will@not.demophon.com) Received: (from will@localhost) by not.demophon.com (8.9.3/8.8.7) id JAA33009; Mon, 8 May 2000 09:40:14 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from will) To: ohoyer@fbwi.fh-wilhelmshaven.de (Olaf Hoyer) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [OT] Finding people with GSM phones (was Re: GPS heads up ) References: <200005061909.MAA07423@mass.cdrom.com> <4.1.20000506210410.009fbaf0@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de> From: Ville-Pertti Keinonen Date: 08 May 2000 09:40:14 +0300 In-Reply-To: ohoyer@fbwi.fh-wilhelmshaven.de's message of "6 May 2000 22:15:37 +0300" Message-ID: <86zoq1ilyp.fsf@not.demophon.com> Lines: 22 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ohoyer@fbwi.fh-wilhelmshaven.de (Olaf Hoyer) writes: > Well, thats reality. > Sometimes the mobile telco hotlines are so overloaded, you cannot even tell > them that your phone was stolen. (Talk about service-but you get what you > pay for) > In germany, there is some list, where every cell phone can be entered with > its IMEI-number (thats like the MAC on an ethernet card). So theoretically > you simply enter them and make them useless for the thief. In Finland, somebody is apparently doing something to track down stolen phones, rather than block their use. One Saturday morning I got a call from someone at some agency (I couldn't quite make out what it was, it sounded like customs but that would seem odd) accusing me of stealing the GSM phone I was using. It turned out that he had one digit wrong (presumably of the either the IMEI-number or just the MSISDN). I wonder what he was trying to accomplish by calling the supposedly stolen phone. This was last month, but not on April 1... ;--) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message