tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467119.post114018335970551265..comments2023-10-24T10:09:22.146+01:00Comments on The Yorkshire Ranter: ID Cards and the Vodafone ScandalAlexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17153530634675543954noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467119.post-1140190867763125042006-02-17T16:41:00.000+01:002006-02-17T16:41:00.000+01:00If all of the 16 or so prepaid mobile handsets had...If all of the 16 or so prepaid mobile handsets had not been actice for several weeks or months when the security breach was discovered by Vodafone Greece, then there would probably have been no opportunity to trace the physical locations of the handsets more accurately than from the nearest 4 cell base statuions, which cover most of central Athens, and are not specific to ththe US embassy etc.<BR/><BR/>If, however, any of those pre-paid mobile phones was still active and connected to the network at the time of the discovery, then , by panicking (your reasoning about the telecomms management culture is correct) and pulling the plug on the rogue software, a potential opportunity to ibestigate more about who might be responsible would have been lost.<BR/><BR/>Surely a Greek military electronic warfare team or a Vodafone radio propagation survey team could have been assigned to more accurately radio locate those mobile phone handsets within a cell, if any were still active ?<BR/><BR/>Granted, those handsets could have be located somewhere neutral, or even in a deliberately misleading location, but now we will never know, and the conspiracy theories about active complicity by Vodafone Greece have been fed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com