The news report claims that the HiTech Crime Enquiry Cell of Kerala Police has technology to trace all the mobile phones and devices through which a video has propagated by analysing the video. I wonder what sort of technology allows to trace all of that. Being a Bluetooth expert myself, I have no idea how to achieve this.
Is this something added by the reporter or a fear game by the police ?
Why Doubt?
Indeed a fear game !!!
I’m no BT expert myself, but, I’m damn sure that,There’s no way the origin of the video could be traced out by analysing the video itself.
Comment by Aravind Jose T. — August 2, 2008 @ 8:25 am
Hello kenny,
I have one doubt, we have something bluetooth device address just like our mac address in our computers.Is it not possible to find with it???
Comment by Bipin — August 2, 2008 @ 9:05 am
common public have no idea of how this works and will be scared to do anything.
It is high time to legalize sending, selling and exchanging porn.
(As long as the artists performed it with consensus and they are not minors, that is.)
Comment by Issac — August 2, 2008 @ 9:09 am
No chance of tracing it. Police making a stupid statement! They might have forgotten about the IT population of Kerala
Comment by Nirmal — August 2, 2008 @ 9:29 am
The local reporter is another culprit. They try to spread the FUD. Look at this.
http://www.thehindu.com/2008/07/31/stories/200807357592000.htm
Another interesting article for the mass market.
Comment by vu2swx — August 2, 2008 @ 10:04 am
Please clarify me. Is there any thing other than the SMS or MMS that can be excavated about our mobile trascations?? If so how insecure is it to check the balances? Lets call police or their crime cell the next key to online account threat.
Comment by SAF — August 2, 2008 @ 10:29 am
@vu2swx
The link is not working !!!!!!
Comment by Kenney Jacob — August 2, 2008 @ 3:03 pm
*bangs* head against screen. God, I just had to read this today morning. Now I can’t even be pissed. This is freaking funny.
Kenny, is that a real live press release, or something you picked up off the street. Nah, I’m not trying to troll. I just want to know where you got the snippet from. Btw, I don’t read the papers.
Comment by Vimal George — August 2, 2008 @ 3:19 pm
@vimal
The snippet is from mathrubhumi. I read only that, and its the only paper worth reading among the mainstream ones.
I have to apologize to Mathurubhumi for doing this…., Sorry guys cos I read your paper only….
Comment by Kenney Jacob — August 2, 2008 @ 3:26 pm
Oooohhh… am scared! =0
Ya right!
Comment by | Balu | — August 2, 2008 @ 4:17 pm
Also someone needs to tell reporters in Kerala that mafia refers to Italian crime society… this buggers use it in every crime story just like that! They have overusing abusing this term just for the heck of it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia
Comment by | Balu | — August 2, 2008 @ 4:23 pm
The “Mafia” Trend was started by our very own chief minister VS
Comment by Kenney Jacob — August 2, 2008 @ 4:42 pm
Off topic: @ Balu
Its not only Mafia that is a media fav in Kerala, there is Lobby.
There 2 words are replaced by one another in many cases.
Everyone is a mafia: Sandalwood mafia,Hotel Mafia, Bus Mafia,and i-dunno-what-all mafia!
-Nikhil
Comment by Nikhil Narayanan — August 2, 2008 @ 7:19 pm
We left out the biggest Mafia.
“The Bullshitting Mafia”
Grand treat from me for the first person to guess this correctly.
Comment by Kenney Jacob — August 2, 2008 @ 7:47 pm
OMFG! This is hilarious and gross from the part of KP. It is not simply fair to mislead the public, someone should sue the dude. Or better, try to create a video and send it across to the public and ask police to catch the copyright violators with this nsippet of news.
Comment by TheAnand — August 2, 2008 @ 8:04 pm
@Nikhil…
Soon they will call all of us members of “Blog Mafia…”
Comment by Shrinidhi Hande — August 3, 2008 @ 8:13 am
oh come on, you guys are unnecessarily creating a furore…after years of reading about the way KP operates, this one is pretty easy to decipher.. once they track the clip on a phone, lock up mardanam starts with kunichu nirthi idi, uruttal etc… he will give you the name of the guy he got it from, and the people who he’s passed it on to.. repeat process with all these people, and so on, till you reach the srishtikarthavu (creator, not religion pls)… allathe, don’t worry about cutting edge tech..
as suresh gopi would say, athu manassilakkan police budhi onnum venda, pattashappukarante…..
Comment by manuscrypts — August 3, 2008 @ 11:42 am
This is not the first time kerala police delivering these types of stupid information.
Comment by Sajith — August 3, 2008 @ 2:52 pm
Mandanmar Mathrubumiyil !!!!!!!!!!
Comment by dinu — August 4, 2008 @ 10:40 am
Well I am not very sure about Kerala Police – But generally speaking about cellular networks – Once you have access to the network – it is possible to monitor all the voice and data lines that leads up to your cell phone.
It is even possible to remotely activate the microphone on your cell-phone and listen to you -without you even knowing.
I am sure all Cell Phone networks and landline networks have to provide such inter connectivity to the Law Enforcement agencies – so that they can monitor the so called terrorist…(also called line tapping)
And as for tracing where a the actual data originated – there is no way of saying – as the file itself does not contain such information.
But when you are talking of relaying such files thru a network – there are ways to track it, as every time there is a communication between two entities in the network – Log files are created automatically will full details of the communication.
May be the statement from KP is a little over hyped/wrong but they are watching you….
Comment by JMJ — August 4, 2008 @ 4:50 pm
might probably be fear tactics…
Comment by scorpiogenius — August 5, 2008 @ 3:09 am
Please don’t misunderstand that NewsPaper Statement…
[They are the origins of that clip] and they can use 3rd Degree methord to trace all other numbers which shared that clip.. 
Hope you got the Idea…
Police Says the Experts in our HiTech cell where capable to identify the surroundings visible in the VideoClip
I fact i meant, The police know all the shooting locations of Porn Films in Kerala
Comment by PixlNinja — August 6, 2008 @ 2:16 pm
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