Good to Know

You want to know all about someone's cell phone usage, like who they called and for how long they talked? You don't need a warrant. You don't need FISA. You don't even have to be a law enforcement officer. You just need to click on a website like Locate cell.com, or one of several others, send them the cell phone number and a credit card number, and in 24 hours or less they'll send you a list of every call made from that cell phone. And it's all perfectly legal. ... Sen. Chuck Schumer, doing something worthwhile for a change, is trying to get the practice criminalized. In the meantime, the FBI has issued a warning to all its field offices that the cell phone records of agents and informants are exposed to anyone who wants to buy them. The Chicago Police Department has likewise warned its officers of the security threat. Mark in Mexico

(Slashdot's 2 cents)
This is good to know. I like the fact that you only need the phone number. I get phone calls from a bunch of dyslexic hill-billies looking for a trailer parts place that happens to have a number similar to mine.
Ring, ring...
Me: "Hello"
Hill-Billy: "Ya, Y'all got a new fornistat for my short tong blah - blah - blah"
Me:  "Didn't you call five minutes ago? You have the middle two numbers switched in the phone number you dialed. It is XXX-X49-XXXX you are looking for, not XXX-X94-XXXX."
Hill-Billy: "What?!? ... ... ... Hang on. .. .. .."
Me: [click]
This scenario plays out every couple of days. I can tell some of these guys are on mobiles. I should start running these queries and calling their friends to convince them they have a learning disability and seek help. No, I'll just stop answering the phone unrecognized numbers.
This is a very minor annoyance in my life. It doesn't even eat up very many minutes. I do so enjoy complaining though.