detecting hidden sat nav or phone in car

"David Hearn" <dave@NOswampieSPAM.org.uk> wrote in message
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> Tumbleweed wrote:
> > "Ivor Jones" <ivor@despammed.invalid> wrote in message
> > news:5540jdF22t37qU1@mid.individual.net...
> > > "Frank Tabor" <ftabor@gmail.com> wrote in message
> > > newsan.2007.03.05.17.30.44@gmail.com

[snip]

> > > > Most manufactured in the last four years of so
> > > > either have GPS or use a modified sort of location
> > > > finding as mandated by Enhanced 911 services. As a
> > > > matter of fact, you would be hard pressed to find a
> > > > carrier that will activate a phone that doesn't
> > > > have gps on it.
> > > Not in the UK they don't.
> > >
> > > Ivor
> >
> > nor in the US, its done by triangulation.
>
> Not according to 24 or CSI! Of course, those 2
> documentaries must be accurate!

According to those shows you can zoom in and read a car number plate from
a crappy CCTV image. I work with CCTV and I've got news for you, it
doesn't work like that on any of our systems ;-)

Ivor

"Robert Peffers." <peffers@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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> "David Chamberlain" <david.chamberlain@attglobal.net>
> wrote in message
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> > Ivor Jones wrote:
> > > "Frank Tabor" <ftabor@gmail.com> wrote in message
> > > newsan.2007.03.05.17.28.23@gmail.com
> > > > On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 12:03:26 +0000, Ivor Jones
> > > > wrote:
> > >
> > > [snip]
> > >
> > > > > There are also vast areas with *no* signal at
> > > > > all..! Ivor
> > > > I'm sot so sure about that. I and friend go out
> > > > west every fall and car camp throughout Utah,
> > > > Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Nevada. He uses
> > > > an old trimode Tracphone, (prepaid) and I can only
> > > > remember one or two places that we were that he
> > > > couldn't get service of some sort.
> > > >
> > > > As far as analog goes, there are some areas that
> > > > don't have coverage, but not very many.
> > >
> > > I can show you a few in California.
> > >
> > > Ivor
> >
> > A great deal of eastern Oregon, except near some towns,
> > have little or no cellular coverage, analog or digital.
> > --
> > David Chamberlain

> This may come as a shock to you but the USA is not the
> World.

I'm well aware of that, I'm in the UK. But we are talking about areas of
the US that are without coverage.

Ivor

"Ivor Jones" <ivor@despammed.invalid> wrote in message
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>> >
>> > nor in the US, its done by triangulation.
>>
>> Not according to 24 or CSI! Of course, those 2
>> documentaries must be accurate!
>
> According to those shows you can zoom in and read a car number plate from
> a crappy CCTV image. I work with CCTV and I've got news for you, it
> doesn't work like that on any of our systems ;-)
>

....according to those shows you can expand a single pixel to show a number
plate :-)

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On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:44:05 -0000, "Tumbleweed"
<thisaccountneverread@yahoo.com> wrote:

>...according to those shows you can expand a single pixel to show a number
>plate :-)

I cringed at the CSI:Miami where they could enhance a crappy cell
phone camera image to reveal the image of the photographer reflected
in the eye of the subject.
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Andrew wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:44:05 -0000, "Tumbleweed"
> <thisaccountneverread@yahoo.com> wrote:

>> ...according to those shows you can expand a single pixel to show a number
>> plate :-)

> I cringed at the CSI:Miami where they could enhance a crappy cell
> phone camera image to reveal the image of the photographer reflected
> in the eye of the subject.

Don't be silly. That technology works fine and has been around for years.
I know it must be because I saw them do the same thing on Knight Rider one
time.

- Logan

On Mar 22, 1:00 am, Logan Shaw <lshaw-use...@austin.rr.com> wrote:
> Andrew wrote:
> > On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:44:05 -0000, "Tumbleweed"
> > <thisaccountneverr...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> ...according to those shows you can expand a single pixel to show a number
> >> plate :-)
> > I cringed at the CSI:Miami where they could enhance a crappy cell
> > phone camera image to reveal the image of the photographer reflected
> > in the eye of the subject.
>
> Don't be silly. That technology works fine and has been around for years.
> I know it must be because I saw them do the same thing on Knight Rider one
> time.
>
> - Logan

And all the guff about no phone coverage is wrong too.

One of the few times I watched X-files, he was locked inside a steel
container buried in the desert, but still managed to phone his
colleagues and tell them about it

"andy" <andy.ggrps@googlemail.com> wrote in message
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> On Mar 22, 1:00 am, Logan Shaw <lshaw-use...@austin.rr.com> wrote:
>> Andrew wrote:
>> > On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:44:05 -0000, "Tumbleweed"
>> > <thisaccountneverr...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> >> ...according to those shows you can expand a single pixel to show a
>> >> number
>> >> plate :-)
>> > I cringed at the CSI:Miami where they could enhance a crappy cell
>> > phone camera image to reveal the image of the photographer reflected
>> > in the eye of the subject.
>>
>> Don't be silly. That technology works fine and has been around for
>> years.
>> I know it must be because I saw them do the same thing on Knight Rider
>> one
>> time.
>>
>> - Logan
>
> And all the guff about no phone coverage is wrong too.
>
> One of the few times I watched X-files, he was locked inside a steel
> container buried in the desert, but still managed to phone his
> colleagues and tell them about it
>
Ah! But! Was he not using a Stornophone?
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