An aside, tower information is/was available via the Android frameworks. When I was on Android, I wrote a little widget that displayed the tower ID and other i

An aside, tower information is/was available via the Android frameworks. When I was on Android, I wrote a little widget that displayed the tower ID and other information of the tower I was currently connected to. In short order, I had the few tower IDs that I used as I roamed around the metro memorized. After reading the article, which was great and had many details, I think this would be a viable strategy for activists worried about governmental abuse, harassment, and surveillance. Spoofing tower IDs would probably present some operational issues amongst customers. Of course, I wouldn't rely on this if my life or freedom depended on it -- and I'd certainly use a community-based ROM, such as Cyanogenmod. http://developer.android.com/reference/android/telephony/cdma/package-summary.html http://developer.android.com/reference/android/telephony/cdm... http://developer.android.com/reference/android/telephony/cdma/CdmaCellLocation.html http://developer.android.com/reference/android/telephony/cdm... http://developer.android.com/reference/android/telephony/gsm/package-summary.html http://developer.android.com/reference/android/telephony/gsm...