Carriers being awful is a separate problem. My annoyance rests with the 2G protocol being awful.
Phones, especially smartphones, are pocket spies. If you need privacy, don't take them with you!*
There is no such thing as a privacy smartphone.
* Honestly if you want a private conversation don't have any kind of phone or laptop in the same room.
Do you have any credible source for this claim. If true, it's truly alarming!
> Rather than confirming a target’s identity with operatives or informants on the ground, the CIA or the U.S. military then orders a strike based on the activity and location of the mobile phone a person is believed to be using.
You are right. This is very disturbing. I guess they do this a lot in Northern Pakistan / Waziristan area in the tribal lands and mountains? What if the Terrorist read stories like this, and gave their cell phone to mules who then get killed?
My father's family (he grew up in India in Bombay) got split in half during the Partition of India and Pakistan when the Brits left India. No wonder there is so much rage and anti-american sentiment in Pakistan (my Pakistani relatives complaint all the time on Skype)
Moxie himself spoke about this in the past.