(keitai-l) Re: More location based services/docomo boxes

I see blaming Americans is a strong force of habit. I assume you meant
Russians in the message below...

Eric Hildum

> From: nick@kyushu.com (Nick May)
> Reply-To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 00:32:17 +0900
> To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
> Subject: (keitai-l) Re: More location based services/docomo boxes
> 
> keitai-l@appelsiini.net writes:
>> It also works for lost husbands, wifes, boyfriends, girlfriends and
>> whatever likes to run away from time to time.
> 
> 
> I hate to extend this thread any more, but if my wife could find out in
> real-time where/what I get up to, the phrase "killer application" would
> take on a whole new meaning....
> 
> This reminds me of the story is possibly apocryphal, of a Chechen warlord
> who is said to have been killed when the Americans successfully used his
> keitai as a homing signal for one of their smaller, cuter cruise missiles.
> 
> The privacy implications of all this "realtime location" stuff is rather
> frightening. (I wonder if they could make a base station small enough to
> fit in my Gaijin Toe-rag Shomei...)
> 
> BTW - does anyone know what boxes/OS Docomo use for their proxys? Any tech
> info on this would be much appreciated. Imode produces an interesting
> traffic pattern - lots of tiny hits, very close together (not much info on
> each page so links get hit fastish). Plays havoc with a db-driven site....
> 
> Nick
> 
> 
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