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!"

Comments

Re:Even closer to home.

[sirmikester]

that's totally true because all the hard criminals out there have microphones and webcams hooked up in the same room that they're doing their illegal deeds in... dumbass

Re:Surprised??

[Anonymous Coward]

You're kidding, right? This is Slashdot, where you get instant mod points for redundant, overused bashings on the Patriot Act, George Bush, Amerika, SCO, Micro$oft, etc. You don't really expect these commentators to actually have knowledge of the finer points of any of these topics, do you? (As an aside, note to the complainers that a first post can be modded "redundant" if is is just another tired anti-(fill in the blank) statement).

It's like the WTO/World Bank protestors. Protesting for the sake of protesting, just to feel morally superior. You don't think they actually know anything about world economics, do you? I'd bet 9 out of 10 of those protestors couldn't even tell you what the World Bank does.