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Roadside Assistance System Used for Eavesdropping
pegr writes "El Reg has a story about how a US appeals court has 'put the brakes on an FBI surveillance technique that turns an automobile driver's on-board vehicle navigation system into a covert eavesdropping device, after finding that the spying effectively disables the system's emergency and roadside assistance features.' Seems the right to get the service you pay for trumps the 'right' of the FBI to spy on you, using your own vehicle's systems!"
OnSpy, how can we help you?
when the guys who show up to fix your flat tire are wearing dark sunglasses.
2 1337 4 u!
Scene: Interrogation room, deep under FBI headquarters.
AGENT: We know you did it. We have proof.
YOU: You've got nothing!
AGENT: [to other agent] Bob, play the tape.
YOUR VOICE: I'd like the double cheeseburger meal, supersized with no pickles
MCDONALDS DRIVE THROUGH: What kind of drink?
YOUR VOICE: A large Coke please
AGENT: Damnit. Fast forward the tape a bit.
I was told that I could listen to the radio at a reasonable volume from nine to eleven...
must be a great country he comes from where you can be "free" and be spyed on all at the same time, isnt democracy wonderful
Please report to your local Block Warden for re-education and social adjustment, Citizen!
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Great, now that everyone knows it's possible, how long until we start to see plans for building your own box to enable this "feature" in other people's vehicles?
Wait a minute. I got it. You could play with your magic nose goblins.
And this is the exact reason I got a Garmin StreetPilot III... that and my tin-foil hat ofcourse...
Business \Busi"ness\, n.;
A scam in which all people involved perceive as beneficial...
After reading this I'm starting a tin-foil car cover company!
My 'car-a-oke' renditions of todays top hits are really not to be missed.
You know what?
I'm going to start selling a little clip on to the cell phone to light up or beep when it detects that the phone is transmitting. I bet the paranoid would pay $50 for that. It wouldn't cost more than a few bucks to make, with a mini-circuits rf amplifier and mixer.
It's not wasting time, I'm educating myself.
I call upon you, the American People to realize that this action is only used to gather intelligence on the Axels of Evil - these terrorists in our midsts. This only furthers our resolve to do whatever we must to protect your freedom.
In the movie Casino, the mobsters have thier wives call each other and talk about shopping for 2 minutes. After the FBI turns off the recorder because it's not relevant, then the mobsters start talking. That movie teaches us so many useful things. Like always have the hole dug first. You don't want to sit out in the desert digging a hole. Someone could come by, and then you have to dig another hole. Life lessons.
-B
Why would the FBI be interested in the sights and sounds of your mother's basement? Get lost, troll. NEXT!
Hey, those WMDs have to be somewhere, right?
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