"Police Detector" Monitors Emergency Radio Transmissions

Posted by samzenpus on Monday October 27, 2014 @01:35AM from the warning-warning-warning dept.

schwit1 writes A Dutch company has introduced a detection system that can alert you if a police officer or other emergency services official is using a two-way radio nearby. Blu Eye monitors frequencies used by the encrypted TETRA encrypted communications networks used by government agencies in Europe. It doesn't allow the user to listen in to transmissions, but can detect a radio in operation up to one kilometer away. Even if a message isn't being sent, these radios send pulses out to the network every four seconds and Blu Eye can also pick these up, according to The Sunday Times. A dashboard-mounted monitor uses lights and sounds to alert the driver to the proximity of the source, similar to a radar detector interface.

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Inquiring minds want to know... by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · 2014-10-27 01:39 · Score: 5, Funny

How do you say "My pig sense is tingling." in Dutch?
1. Re:Inquiring minds want to know... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-27 01:54 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  That translates back to English as "My pig-tingling sensation". Pretty sure anything that causes that sensation is illegal.
2. Re:Inquiring minds want to know... by ganjadude · 2014-10-27 02:21 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  spider pig...spider pig....
  
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  have you seen my sig? there are many others like it but none that are the same
3. Re:Inquiring minds want to know... by unrtst · 2014-10-27 03:33 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Depends what state you are in.
  It's probably a police state.
Encrypted? by organgtool · 2014-10-27 02:02 · Score: 3, Funny

Blu Eye monitors frequencies used by the encrypted TETRA encrypted communications networks used by government agencies in Europe
Yeah, but is it encrypted?