[OT] "It is 10:00. Do you know where your children are"

Gryphin · #1 January 3rd, 2004, 02:27 AM

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/...123103X,00.asp

Use their cell phone to track them.

Quote:

Parents with computers can go to the ChildLocate portal where, after entering their password, they can tap in the phone number of their child's phone and view a map showing the child's location within 25 seconds. Those preferring to use their mobile phones can send a text message via SMS with the name of their child and password and receive a response per SMS.

Now, how long will it take for a smart kid to figure out how to evade or trick this system?

Alneyan · #2 January 3rd, 2004, 02:31 AM

Well, wouldn't the solution be "don't take your mobile unless you want to be tracked"? Or even meaner, "hide your mobile at the other end of the town to trick the system". Or am I missing something obvious here?

Loser · #3 January 2nd, 2004, 03:14 PM

Or even better the "obtain password to stalk ex-girlfriend and orchestrate awkward confrontations while she is out with, of all things, other men". That one sounds real promising. I see a thriller or two coming out with that for the plot.

She leaves him because he's creepy.

She goes to the beach, he's there.

She goes to a concert, he's there.

She goes to secluded location with her new boyfriend, he's there and kills the new beau.

She goes to the police, he heads her off and tries to kill her.

She kills him.

The End.

Nodachi · #4 January 2nd, 2004, 04:17 PM

Kids'll just pull the battery when they don't want to be tracked.

"Gee Mom, I don't know, it's been working fine all day..."

Gryphin · #5 January 2nd, 2004, 04:48 PM

Would wrapping it in foil act as an antenna or block the signal?

Excuses:
"It was in my purse, I didn't hear it"
"We were in a church. I turned it off"
"We were in a dead zone"
"I don't know" :: Angelic face :: "Please don't tell daddy"
"The mall filters it out"

Loser · #6 January 2nd, 2004, 05:27 PM

Excuses:
"I killed it! That's right, I broke the little leash. You won't bind me to the groupmind that has been running western society since 1956! Oh yeah, I know about that. And I know about the way the radio waves get in my mind and make me more like the rest of you drones. Well I'm not going to be like you! I'm freeing my mind! I'm freeing myself from the tyranny of the little clever eight-bit ring tones! I'm freeing myself from the Theme from Batman and Fur Elise and goddamn Sandstorm in eight-friggin'-bits! You want to know where I am!? You don't need the damn phone. Just ask the guys in that windowless white van that follows me every where! They know where I am!"

[ January 02, 2004, 15:28: Message edited by: Loser ]