it is a bit of an exageration, we can pick you up if your phone is on
and getting signal from 3 towers. As far as pinpoint, its about 30 ft.
Matthew wrote:

> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 12:35:36 -0700
> From: Matthew <poll7356@UIDAHO.EDU>
> Subject: Re: The Ideal vanagon
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>
> i know a few people that work in the national security sector (people
> that can't tell me what they do and who or where they work)... even if a
> cell phone is turned off and the battery is out, the cell phone tower
> will still be able to contact it, and help to pinpoint the phone's
> location. It is not until enough of the juice is drained out of the cell
> phone (w/o the battery) that it will cease to function. Pretty scary. I
>
> Joseph Fortino wrote:
>
>> as soon as they install complete GPS signal tracking you'll be tracked.
>> this includes the GPS software. most phones don't support it yet.
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J. Naser Motlagh, MBA, PMP