Fwd: [funsec] FW: NYC's 911, 311 systems to accept cellphone pics, video

[Brian Loe]

On 1/22/07, Jarrod Frates <jfrates.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This is true.  However, how many people are going to buy a prepaid
> phone just to make a prank 911 call?  In addition, call logs are kept
> for these phones, and it's a simple matter for police to contact
> people who own phones which appear in the call log and see if they
> recognize the number.  It's going to be a very tiny number of people
> willing to go through the cost and effort to make such a call, small
> enough that it will be an insignificant risk.

I was inline behind someone buying a pre-paid throw-away at Wal-Mart,
they seemed to do some special documentation during the transaction.
Could be nothing, could be something...