Monday, April 9, 2007

How mobiles let everyone be fooled about location

During a chat my friend was saying how a fellow passenger in his train was ballantly bluffing that he had reached Faridabad/Gaziabad when they were still some 10-15 minutes away from that place.

Surprisingly we were discussing the same topic(how mobiles let everyone be fooled about location) when I was returning back to Delhi in train. In one incident, the other person had bluffed that he was coming to a planned destination and he is already in his car. The person who was chatting immediately had asked him to "Blow horn and show!". Obviously couldn't escape this simple test.

So next time your friend is informing you that he is well on the way as planned try to get some simple proof like this.

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