Google Said..... Was: RE: London incidents

Wed Jul 13 05:26:41 UTC 2005

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> Steve Sobol
> Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 10:25 PM
> To: North American Networking & Offtopic Gripes
> Subject: Re: London incidents
> 
> 
> 
> Jim Popovitch wrote:
> 
> > I think the world has shown that cellphones have been used 
> over and over
> > to detonate explosive devices.  Why wait for it to be proved again
> > before doing something?  AFAIK "Emergency Only" mode allows for 911
> > calls, 
> 
> And means nothing if power is cut to the cell sites and you 
> can't connect to 
> anything. Emergency mode only works where there is a signal.

Good points. And thanks for not saying "Google said...". 
Independant sources are not listed in google. :-).

[ObSecOp: FWIW, you can google how a cell phone can be used as a detonator
       and it does tend to demonstrate some thought on controlling cell
       signals as security policy...THAT is a good use for google.. -M< ]

ObTechnoPoliButOffTopic:

If the UK GOV makes a tacit denial of such an event 
that would hold  more[1] credibility than them pointing 
at others saying they didn't do it. 

[1] Slightly more, depending upon how high up.

-M<