Activists Beware: Big brother under the bumper (GPS tracking)

Boulder residents find mysterious tracking systems on their cars
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by Joel Warner and Pamela White (Editorial@boulderweekly.com)


Nicosia says he was inside asleep that morning when Coronado discovered the large black devices attached behind the rear bumpers of his and his girlfriend’s cars on the driver’s side. When Nicosia woke up, Coronado showed him the strange tangles of wires and electronics. Nicosia immediately became curious if such a device had also been planted on his car.

It took just a moment to discover the answer.

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Another enigma is who built these devices, which Johnson says were probably custom made. While the GPS antennas are labeled with serial numbers and the manufacturer name Trimble, one of the leading developers of GPS technology, other components in the device are not made by Trimble, says Johnson. Most of the components contain no labels at all, making them untraceable. When Trimble was contacted and asked if the antennas’ sales histories could be tracked using their serial numbers, the company spokesperson did not respond before press time.

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Another clue that might link the GPS systems to the FBI are three hand-written numbers discovered inside of the devices’ battery packs, a different number for each device. The numbers–141, 142 and 447–could be used for tracking purposes, says Coronado, and could suggest that the devices might be part of a much larger fleet of similar systems–a fleet that could only belong to a major organization.

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"My impression is that our government knows they are going too far," says Ball. "They are implementing laws and policies going against the will of the people to the degree they are going to get massive resistance, and that is why they came up with the Patriot Act, and this means of GPS surveillance, and surveillance of our computers and websites and e-mail and all that kind of stuff. It’s all part and parcel of the same thing, that the government knows they are going to encounter massive resistance, so they are taking every opportunity right now to create the controls to control us."

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http://www.boulderweekly.com/coverstory.html

Drivers don't have a chance anymore. Totally monitored. Will see if I can find the thread.

I would expect/

Thanks, Tin, for making sure we knew this...!

car, computer, telephone, mail, book purchases, purchases period, etc...


but the BRIGHT note is that there's a SEVERE shortage of analysts to process all this information they're amassing :) so unless one's attracted attention where they can single one out, one should be reasonably safe... for now.

And then look at the absolute rebellion in the CIA and FBI against this administration. I'm beginning to feel much better about all of this. Who would they use to go after people? The military? The military doesn't trust them anymore. The soldiers are becoming disgusted. Someone plesae tell me if I'm being too optimistic this morning...

Although they can read a newspaper from space, the question remains: "Which newspaper?"

:spank: :spank:


:) Thanks for the laugh

http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,77702,00.html

Anyone seen Phrack online lately?

(...time passes...)

Here it is:
http://www.phrack.org/phrack/60/p60-0x0d.txt

what the government is doing.

Anybody remember its url? i dont

Guess I should check my car :shrug: