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  • From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] GPS in every simcard - "locational privacy" concerns
  • Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:56:59 -0800 (PST)

Hah! Excellent story ! ............bobford

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--- On Thu, 11/20/08, Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:

> From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] GPS in every simcard - "locational privacy"
> concerns
> To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Thursday, November 20, 2008, 4:55 PM
> > "A Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) is part of a
> removable smart card ICC (Integrated Circuit Card), also
> known as SIM Cards, for mobile cellular telephony devices
> such as mobile computers and mobile phones. SIM cards
> securely store the service-subscriber key (IMSI) used to
> identify a subscriber. The SIM card allows users to change
> phones by simply removing the SIM card from one mobile phone
> and inserting it into another mobile phone or broadband
> telephony device."
>
> This is true. I know someone who recently had his cell
> phone unclick from its belt holder and fall into a toilet as
> he rose. Yes, the toilet was flushing at that moment. His
> reaction of horror was immediately replaced by a dive for
> the thing. Yes, the, um, other material had preceded the
> phone down the drain. Fortunately, the phone was slightly
> too big to be flushed. It was grabbed, a hand towel was
> grabbed and the phone was dried as fast and as well as
> possible. After a bit the phone was tried. It acted like ET
> losing his power, feebly trying and then fading, then trying
> again, then fading.
>
> At the appropriate cell store a very young clerk with
> extensive face jewelry and multi-colored hair embarrassed
> the technologically-challenged geezer by asking multiple
> questions he could not answer leading up to do you have a
> replacement policy--don't know, wife bought phone for
> her peace of mind in case of a breakdown on the Interstate.
> Would you like to call her? Can't, her phone numbers are
> in that phone that won't work. Oh. Multiple attempts at
> phone resuscitation including opening the phone and blotting
> toilet water. The phone was pronounced dead. A new phone was
> selected. The clerk reopened the old phone, extracted an
> item about the size of a fat postage stamp and inserted it
> into the new phone. The new phone immediately recognized the
> geezer as its owner who would not have been surprised for it
> to speak lovingly and reassuringly. That little item was the
> SIMM card.







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