Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- Trump

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

Karma may sometimes be late to arrive.
But it never loses an address.

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Eight Million Times

That's how often that Sprint provided tracking data to the cops in a one year period.

Sprint is the third place cellular provider, behind Verizon and AT&T. They each have over 80 million customers, Sprint has 48 million. T-Mobile is a distant fourth with 33 million; the resy of the myriad providers are pretty much pissants by comparison.

8 million requests out of 48 million customers. Either Sprint attracts some real hard-cases for its customers or the entire "let the cops track who they want" system is seriously out of whack. I don't buy the "thousands of pings per surveillance order", not unless they were pinging the phones every minute of every hour of every day.

And I have serious doubts that Sprint is demanding warrants from the cops.

(H/T)

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