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Back in the day I found a guy who cloned the identity of my analogue portable cell phone with my in-car cell phone so they both behaved as the same number. Wh
by steveharman 6y ago
Back in the day I found a guy who cloned the identity of my analogue portable cell phone with my in-car cell phone so they both behaved as the same number. When one rang, they both rang.
In theory when I answered a call on one, the network would be signalled to say I'd picked up and it would stop telling the other to ring - but once in a while the other phone would keep on ringing .
iirc phone cloning may have been illegal here in the UK at the time...
- ShamelessC 6y agoThat's interesting. Slightly off topic, but this seems to reveal a small error in the movie Primer. The two main characters travel back in time one day to use their knowledge of the stock market to make money on some good trades. Their doubles are of course also in the past, so they make efforts to avoid them at all costs so that they don't interfere with causality. One of the characters mistakenly brings his cellphone with him back in time. When his wife calls, they assume that since the his phone is ringing that the double's phone couldn't be ringing, so he decides to answer it and pretend to be at work as his double is. In reality it seems both phones would have rung?