On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 00:59:41 -0800, "CW"
wrote:

The countermeasure I think, is fairly simple. Every vulnerable public
place which may be targeted by terrorist bomb attacks, should install
cellphone signal blockers.

Not in the US. Intentional interference is illegal. It likely is in most
places.


Homeland security has done worse on civil liberty laws.

Compared to the cost and unfeliability of security personnel and
person-body checks surely a "cellphone safe" building, train or public
conveyance is acceptable. After all it wasn't that many years ago
(~10) when there were no cellphones. The what did emergency workers
do then? What happend when you are out of cellphone range? Have you
actually heard of anyone dying because the party called couldn't get
his/her cellphone page?

I would certainly feel a lot more comfortable if the building
advertises itself as a cellphone free location to a point where I
would prefer to shop there. A work around for emergency worker
phone access is for the emergency worker to tell a service provider
that he is at a particular cellphone free location. If he needs to be
contacted the service provider will phone that building(s) management
by landline who will then page the emergency worker. It will work
like a 911 line and is meant for emergencies only, not a mom looking
for a shopping mall crazy daughter. Outside these cellphone free
buildings any cellphone will work normally.