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minus-squarealcoholicorn@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-215 days agoThe phone tracing one is misleading. It might take hours for the police to get the location from the ISP (I doubt that), but the phone call doesn’t have to be hours long.
minus-squarekent_eh@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-214 days agoIt takes typing a single command to trace a call. What takes time is getting the authorization to the person who has the password permission to issue that command. Very few people at the phone company are allowed access to those commands.
The phone tracing one is misleading. It might take hours for the police to get the location from the ISP (I doubt that), but the phone call doesn’t have to be hours long.
It takes typing a single command to trace a call.
What takes time is getting the authorization to the person who has the password permission to issue that command.
Very few people at the phone company are allowed access to those commands.