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Two New Fed GPS Trackers Found On SUV
jcombel writes with this excerpt:
"As the Supreme Court gets ready to hear oral arguments in a case Tuesday that could determine if authorities can track U.S. citizens with GPS vehicle trackers without a warrant, a young man in California has come forward to Wired to reveal that he found not one but two different devices on his vehicle recently. The 25-year-old resident of San Jose, California, says he found the first one about three weeks ago on his Volvo SUV while visiting his mother in Modesto, about 80 miles northeast of San Jose. After contacting Wired and allowing a photographer to snap pictures of the device, it was swapped out and replaced with a second tracking device. A witness also reported seeing a strange man looking beneath the vehicle of the young man’s girlfriend while her car was parked at work, suggesting that a tracking device may have been retrieved from her car. Then things got really weird when police showed up during a Wired interview with the man."
> What does a citizen have to do to get this kind of personalized attention from the government?
In this guy's case? Buy the SUV of your drug dealer cousin who fled the country and then visit Tijuana
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I guess you hadn't heard about the original story, which was some kid that was merely a friend of someone of 'interest' and he had a GPS device placed on his vehicle.
It was all over Reddit.
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If that is significant then get the warrent.
You must have missed the part where they aren't required to tell you they have the warrant. We don't know if they did or not.
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Obviously not, but today, Obama actively sought the Supreme Court's acquiescence in warrantless GPS tracking. So, Obama is actually responsible for this particular usage because it complies with his general policy goals. Do you seriously think Obama had no idea what was being argued in his name at the SCOTUS?
http://www.dailytech.com/Obama+Administration+Fights+to+Allow+Warrantless+GPS+Tracking/article22021.htm
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Nope, the phone's identity is the IMEI, which is in hardware on the phone, not on the SIM.
The SIM has the IMSI and MSISDN numbers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Mobile_Equipment_Identity
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I've opened it up and identified the cellular radio, the logic board and the gps receiver. The gps antenna is well marked.
It was wired into the headlights/dashlight power, so it definitely wasn't a remote shutdown - unless they were trying to make the person crash by shutting off their headlights while they were going down the freeway at night (this is how I discovered there was a problem). It took about 20 minutes to trace the wires (in the parking lot of a gas station) to the fusebox. When I got to the fusebox and there weren't any blown fuses, I traced further and then I found it.
Whoever installed it wasn't particular about where they got power. As far as a battery goes, how long does your cell phone last on a single charge? I would imagine that a gps tracker could last longer because it's essentially sending text messages with location information which takes less power than voice communication, but it is still a finite charge. This thing was installed deep in the dash.
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The "boot" is the part of the car opposite the bonnet of course. What's the matter, don't you speak English?
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