Careful What You Post, the FBI Has More of These

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @05:09AM from the do-you-see-what-i-see dept.

jamie writes "A comment posted to a website got its author's *friend's* car an unwanted aftermarket addon. The Orion Guardian ST820, a GPS tracking device, was attached to the underside of the car by the FBI. No warrant required. The bugged friend, a college student studying marketing, was apparently under suspicion because he's half-Egyptian. As Bruce Schneier says, 'If they're doing this to someone so tangentially connected to a vaguely bothersome post on an obscure blog, just how many of us have tracking devices on our cars right now ...' The ACLU is investigating." This follows up on our earlier mention of the same student, who turned the tracking device over to the FBI.

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Re:get a lawsuit by c6gunner · 2010-10-13 07:02 · Score: 1, Flamebait

From what I can tell, the FBI's only reason to place this bug on the guy's car is that he's "half Egyptian".
Argument from Ignorance

What a second-rate nation the US has become in the past thirty years.
Yes; the lack of critical thinking skills among the populace really has me concerned.