The speculation I'm seeing elsewhere is that this was 8 million pings sent by a much smaller number of survielled phones, with each sending pings every 30 minut

The speculation I'm seeing elsewhere is that this was 8 million pings sent by a much smaller number of survielled phones, with each sending pings every 30 minutes or whatever. Anyway, the original blog post has much other interesting info, despite the probably inflated numbers in its title. <http://paranoia.dubfire.net/2009/12/8-million-reasons-for-real-surveillance.html&#62 http://paranoia.dubfire.net/2009/12/8-million-reasons-for-re...;