Conjecture for Finding Who Owns a Hobby/Burner Phone

You give those bozos way too much credit. They couldn't even stop the Boston bombers after being warned by the Russians.

Oh, you mean the same GE run by Obama's bestest friend Jeff Immelt, chief of his Corporate Council on Job Creation that moved an entire engine manufacturing plant to CHINA after being named to head that council?

That GE?

Bottom line, some reasonable precautions in using burner phones, etc is a good thing. The likelihood that the government will expend the resources needed ala "Enemy of the State" to track you for calling hookers, is remote. Originally Posted by RedLeg505

That's our boy

I own GE stock. Just sayin'...

I own GE stock. Just sayin'... Originally Posted by Stanfeld

Yep, good call on the GE Stock Stanfeld. If the company CEO is a good "crony"/buddy of the Obama Admin, really good chances they'll make LOTS of money.

But, the likelihood the Feds are going to amass the resources needed to track your burner phone and correlate it with the credit card purchases at a restaurant so they can locate you when you are trying to meet up with a provider.. is fucking zip.

Yep, good call on the GE Stock Stanfeld. If the company CEO is a good "crony"/buddy of the Obama Admin, really good chances they'll make LOTS of money.

But, the likelihood the Feds are going to amass the resources needed to track your burner phone and correlate it with the credit card purchases at a restaurant so they can locate you when you are trying to meet up with a provider.. is fucking zip. Originally Posted by RedLeg505

But they could, if you did something they didn't like. So, they probably won't....

Do you want them to get it down to the last thirty people? How much harder to track you down, then? Originally Posted by BJerk

They might go through that type of an effort for a murder case but not hobbying.

Just to be clear, if the NSA was looking for you, almost none of the OPs ideas would be the way they would find you. And yes, there is a practical reason the phones are called burner phones. They should be destroyed regularly if you are using them for a reason that would interest the NSA.