Comments on: Does an Untraceable Cell Phone Exist?

By: scott

scott — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 17:09:59 +0000

imagine if you will a parent so obsessed with spying on there children, EX husband and there family to the point it causes the child to wake up in the middle of the night screaming from nightmares that someone is out to get them. having some one parked on your block or in your backyard camped out trying to eavesdrop on your conversation and using family members working for at&t to help them track you turn features on without your permission….don’t be so quick to knock anonymous devices…..there just what i’m looking for

By: Cindy

Cindy — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 02:00:18 +0000

I get a new prepaid every month just because hackers piss me off.There is no phone. that is untraceable

By: Thomas Tucker

Thomas Tucker — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 05:17:02 +0000

*the right to a false sense of privacy.

It’s easier for the Gov’t just to let people think they have privacy and not even try to pretend to regulate it.

By: Thomas Tucker

Thomas Tucker — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 05:12:44 +0000

Just because they dont know whos using the phone don’t mean they cant trace the phone. Most phones have GPS now a days.. so if they need to they can track the phone down within 1-2 mile radius.

And then they can use other clues, like the numbers you call, to better determine who you are.

Or if you pay in cash they can look at the time of sale, and in some cases catch you on video paying for the exact card that was sold.

All of this can be worked around… but it’s easier just to steal someones phone.. use it quick and ditch it you’ll probably never get caught that way.. so does restrictions help keep people honest, yes. Criminals will get untraceable phones no matter what.

nothing is untraceable, only more difficult to trace…. and unless everyone you communicate with doesn’t know your real identity.. misuse it you’ll get caught.

By: Erik

Erik — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 02:05:48 +0000

The article is imbalanced, granting undo weight to the dangers of anonymous phones while overlooking civil rights. While a crime could be committed with an anonymous phone, there are several questions we have to ask. Do we remove rights of privacy from millions of consumers just to stop the occasional crime? And would doing so actually stop those crimes, or just make criminals look for other ways to accomplish communication anonymously? Knives are used in criminal acts more than guns, do we register knife owners? And cell tracing only helps expedite the investigation of a crime. Should we tap all phones and run them through AI algorithms in order to try to prevent the crimes? The article treats phones as though they are weapons. They’re not, they’re tools. We can regulate and restrict weapons, but violating privacy rights in order to regulate and restrict tools is nonsensical. We have to ask – how many major crimes have been accomplished or gotten away with due to anonymous phones? The figure is probably close to almost none.

By: atfsux

atfsux — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 10:33:52 +0000

I’ve been using a prepaid Tracfone from Walmart for years, and love it. But as much as I have resisted, I find myself actually NEEDING a smartphone now. That is a whole nuther story. How the hell does one get anonymous smartphone service? Everywhere I have looked into it, even if you buy an unlocked phone for cash and try to get carrier service prepaid for cash,…somewhere along the line someone demands to see ID. I suppose I may have to set about getting a fake ID, since I absolutely REFUSE to have any phone connected to me. But at 44, I’m not hooked up with the high school crowd, so I have no idea where to get quality IDs.