Reason for openmoko - bugsafe?

Rodolphe Ortalo rodolphe.ortalo at free.fr
Sun Jul 15 19:11:52 CEST 2007


Le dimanche 15 juillet 2007 à 18:46 +0200, Fabien a écrit :
[...]
> Finally, you can't do anything against geolocation either: your
> carrier needs to know where you are in order to route calls to you, so
> state agencies can retrieve that information directly from the
> carrier, whatever your phone is, as soon as it's on. 

Technically yes.
However, legally, they cannot do this *arbitrarily*.
(Please note that going further into a definition of what is or is not
arbitrary will probably lead us off-topic... :-)

Rodolphe






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