2006-08-13 08:40:50 · 14 answers · asked by HEY boo boo 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Civic Participation
Most cell phones can be opened and re-worked to able an insert of an SD memory type card. This card - the same one that stores your digital pictures! - can be programed. It has a non-volatile memory and once it's programed can not be undone!
They had 1000 of these devices! All clean slates just waiting for a program!
2006-08-13 08:47:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is impossible at best to trace the calls. This way they can contact terrorist cells without the worry of tracking.
2006-08-13 15:48:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cell phones can be tracked, but only with difficulty, and usually it takes repeated use. If terrorists use prepaid phones, and then ditch them after one or two uses, it prevents US and other nations from using signal intelligence to locate them. In addition, they can then clone the phone numbers, and add an additional layer of protection against tracking and interception of their signals.
2006-08-13 15:54:39 · answer #3 · answered by But why is the rum always gone? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. They are hard to trace.
2. They are easily used as remote detonators.
3. The terrorst often have holes in their pockets so they keep losing them.
2006-08-13 15:46:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hard to trace the conversation back to the source. They also make great bomb detonators!
2006-08-13 15:44:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can't trace who made the call. The phone is in nobodies name.
-Dio
2006-08-13 15:47:06 · answer #6 · answered by diogenese19348 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hard to trace the calls.
2006-08-13 15:45:39 · answer #7 · answered by coragryph 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
to give Fox news something to talk about. I have a lot of old phones too. Uh oh.
2006-08-13 15:43:27 · answer #8 · answered by john p 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Just because they're terrorsts doesn't mean they want to pay roaming charges!
2006-08-13 15:47:38 · answer #9 · answered by zippychippy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The prepaid kind can't be linked back to any particular person...
2006-08-13 15:45:04 · answer #10 · answered by BORED AT WORK 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋