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Re: Killer drones home in on cell phones

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I would have thought that this is common knowledge by now.  Are these 
muhajideen really using cell phones to communicate with each other?  I 
would have thought that any insurgents would avoid cell phones like the 
plague.  Maybe it's just the ones who are still alive that do.

> "What’s more, he adds, the NSA often locates drone targets by analyzing 
> the activity of a SIM card, rather than the actual content of the 
> calls. Based on his experience, he has come to believe that the drone 
> program amounts to little more than death by unreliable metadata."

I think this guy is trying to say that the spooks hoover up 'metadata' 
(who doesn't believe this is everything they can get including voice 
and all data?) and then once they have associated the IMEI of the phone 
with undesirable activity, they then home in on that phone next time it 
talks to the network and blow the user up.

File this under 'it was safe to assume all this years ago?'

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Killer drones home in on cell phones "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-02-16 17:18 +0000
  Re: Killer drones home in on cell phones RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-16 23:29 +0000
  Re: Killer drones home in on cell phones Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-17 00:08 -0800
    Re: Killer drones home in on cell phones "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-02-17 04:11 +0411

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