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To: pyslent who wrote (112174)	4/26/2011 1:58:38 PM
From: yofal	4 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213183

I think ex-Apple Mike Paquette sums it up well over on iVillage… investorvillage.com Doesn't ANYONE understand how a cell phone network works? If you are worried about the government tracking you, never carry a cell phone. Any cell phone. NEVER. In order to route calls or text messages to your cell phone, the phone company needs to know which cell tower your phone is able to communicate with. The phone receives from various cell towers, and checks in with the one with the best signal, transmitting it's identifying information. The phone company operates a database that logs the phone information and tower ID. When a call or text message is to be sent to your phone, the phone company uses your phone number as a hey into this database, retrieving the tower ID and phone information, routing the call to that tower and attempting to contact your phone. The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act and subsequent regulation requires these 'call detail records' and customer proprietary network information to be preserved. Cell-tower information is available to US government agents without a warrant. Any 'authenticated agent' (agent with a login and password) can file a request for tracking to the cell-tower level. Sprint does require agents check the 'emergency' box before they will provide this information on their web site without a warrant. The US Justice Department is currently working on getting these requests to be treated as access to 'routine business records.'

To: pyslent who wrote (112174)	4/28/2011 9:54:00 PM
From: Cogito	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213183

>>That seems weird to me, actually, because the locations of the towers are proprietary. I would think apple would want to keep those secret.<< Well, it's not as if they went out of their way to publicize the existence of this deeply buried file. And the tower's locations can't be too big a secret, anyway, since the towers themselves are all out there in plain sight.