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The UK's The Guardian reports with reference to the recent attacks in France: "Foreign, non-EU intelligence, based on mobile phone surveillance, indicating the Isis militant had recently been in Greece did not reach Paris until 16 November, three days after the attacks."
So a non-EU country tracked this person's phone while in the EU. Technically impressive, finding this one phone among 1.1billion mobile phones in Europe. Scary, too.
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(Score: 2) by albert on Monday November 23 2015, @01:51AM
After an attack, we track it back. This gets us the terrorist training location. While the next terrorist is busy training, he gets bombed.
The terrorists of course report that the camp is something like a daycare center, and useful idiots eat it up. We still prevented the next attack.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Monday November 23 2015, @03:36AM
Sounds impressive, except getting Cell records from Syria is pretty much a non-starter. There is no reason to believe the same sim card would be use over that whole period. Maybe one of the French terrorists sere anywhere near a training camp any time recently.
Most of them were on watch lists, but for the most part left totally alone to come and go as they please.
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(Score: 2) by albert on Monday November 23 2015, @04:42AM
Have you ever wondered why the USA flies satellites with gold mesh antennas that unfold to being larger than a football field? I think it is pretty obvious that this isn't being done for science.
The USA can also use drones, mountaintops on the other side of an international border, and hidden receivers. Maybe we even hack into the cell network; the Greeks certainly seem to think we do so.
Yep, we can track these people in numerous ways, and we can kill them in numerous ways. We obviously won't get them all, but we can get an awful lot of them.