| ▲ | therobots927 7 hours ago |
| Assuming he had access to a database with (lat, long, SIM) data, if she got a new phone he could just use the known (lat, long pairs) from the old sim and lookup to get the new sim. Then bam, you can get all of the new lat longs. It’s impossible to avoid unless you simultaneously move to a new house / apartment when you get your new phone, and never bring the new phone to any previous low-traffic location you brought the old phone to. |
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| ▲ | justinclift 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| If the person was deep enough into the system to have access to location data, then they'd probably be able to just directly look up customer details (likely easier). |
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| ▲ | hocuspocus 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Absolutely not. I have access to geo-located network telemetry. CRM data is completely off limit to anyone on my team. | | |
| ▲ | justinclift 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Are you in a small company where most people wear lots of hats, or in a big company that has siloed off groups? Am guessing it's more of the big company approach that silos things off? | | |
| ▲ | hocuspocus 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | As far as telcos go, I work at a pretty small one. We have fewer subscribers than say, a single Chinese operator would have in a second tier city. |
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| ▲ | kakacik 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Well maybe it wasn't such a well secured company and also this seems story from the past. | | |
| ▲ | hocuspocus 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Built-in positioning of network traces is relatively recent in mobile network equipment and dedicated probes. If that happened more than 5-6 years ago, it would sound even less likely. Most telcos never bothered doing the processing needed to position raw events based on timing advances. They'd simply offload that to third party companies. These solution providers aren't crazy, they don't touch data that isn't already anonymized. It's even less probable that a random employee would have access to the multiple datasets needed to piece someone's personal data together. |
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| ▲ | calvinmorrison 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| it's impossible for your precise location to be tracked by anybody... wow thats crazy |
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