A few years ago I read half of the cell phones here are prepaid. That means millions of these are in use. I have a prepaid phone myself. It helps to keep costs lower than having to pay monthly dues to a phone company.

I think fears about the danger of unregistered phones are exaggerated. Registered phones that are stolen also make the thief anonymous but become a larger problem for the previous owner, because in case he is the first suspect.

A GPS chip functions while your phone is off as well. You can take the battery out if it makes you feel better, but all computers have internal batteries to keep certain components running 24/7 (think laptops, but desktops too), and since all phones are computers you can bet they all have an internal power source. This one is a bit of a stretch, but if you don’t believe me please do your own research (somewhere other that wikipedia).

So, forgetting about that 100-300 meter radius, GPS (created, funded, and maintained by the Department of Defense) is accurate to within a few feet. Think about walking from your living room to your bathroom to take a pee…seriously? Who, besides you, needs to know that? You can always buy a phone overseas that advertises their lack of a GPS monitoring chip, but since your phone’s public IP changes about once every minute, you can bet that youre being routed through another path (think back to towers here), and since it might take a speedy person three minutes to do their business and wash up, in the time you were taking that Freedom Pee with your ‘untraceable phone’, your position has been triangulated.

Triangulation is accomplished using signal strength, locations of towers, and computations of signal degradation over distance based on what is known about the technologies being implemented in a given situation. Then what you have is basically a big circle around each of the towers you last connected to, leaving a Venn diagram effect with a common area which you most surely occupy. Phone’s usually switch towers when they leave range of a connected tower, come in range of a tower with a stronger signal than the one it is currently connected to, or when you reset your radio/turn your phone off and back on again. But remember that your phone is a computer, and its connections, voice or text, are not analog, it is data being sent directly to your service providers computer, to your friend’s service provider’s computers, and then to his phone (with no encryption or privacy of contents, I might add).

If it goes through them, they can choose the full path start to finish. If there are three towers that can conceivably connect to your phone and your carrier wants to triangulate you, youd better believe its a only a click away. They might not know who you are, but boy can they find you.

I know most of this is outside the scope of this post, but I define truth as the whole truth and nothing but the truth, and I’m sure glad I learned all of this so I want to make sure as many people know what they’re dealing with as possible. This isn’t a free country, we are still fighting everyday for freedom from our government and it’s a shame that the people of the world can’t see that; they instead refer to America and American’s, lumping innocent people like us with government entities that make decisions out of our control, and then tell us it’s what we wanted and for our own good.

I’m still working on a solution for fully anonymous cell phone communications. Not that I expect to make much progress, but if I do, I promise to share it with you all.

im pretty sure all their systems are automated now so you could setup a phone the same way and not even have to talk to a operator.

I am amazed as a culture how dependent people are on cell phones. So many people have them now you can forget looking someone up in the phone book anymore. This helps criminals by keeping their address and number a secret. Now all the poor have cell phones and they get free minutes every month, “Safe link” so they can look for jobs? Like a phone is a necessity like food or electricity! It also takes advantage of the poor who spend the rent just to have the newest cell phone when a 30 dollar magic jack would give them a years worth of local and long distance service. A lousy 2.50 a month will give you phone service but not the cool cell phone kind. I just talked a friend out of an unlimited plan which was expensive and she is on welfare. She has the Safe link phone but uses up the 250 minutes in a week. She is getting a magic jack after I explained to her that this was all she could “afford”. Maybe she could even get cable tv with the savings? I just don’t get it as I rarely use my phone or have a need to be connected to someone 24/7 with a cellular umbilical cord. It seems like every great invention like the television and the telephone starts out promising but within a few short years we have over engineered it and made the content something I find unacceptable to watch or listen to. It’s insulting to anyone with intelligence and “new funny” is not as good as “old funny” was.

Now the cell phone, How did we ever live without them? They are expensive, need to be upgraded, die if they get wet or dropped. You need to charge them, the buttons are too small to see, many vehicular accidents are attributed to texting and jobs are lost over sexting and marriages are over due to cell records and criminals go to jail because of triangulation and call records. Not to mention brain cancer from holding them to our heads all day long. Being untraceable is the least of their problems.