Battle Brews Over FBI's Warrantless GPS Tracking 259
fysdt writes "The FBI's use of GPS vehicle tracking devices is becoming a contentious privacy issue in the courts, with the Obama administration seeking Supreme Court approval for its use of the devices without a warrant, and a federal civil rights lawsuit targeting the Justice Department for tracking the movements of an Arab-American student. In the midst of this legal controversy, Threat Level decided to take a look at the inside of one of the devices, with the help of the teardown artists at iFixit."
Re:If I had a car... (Score:4, Informative)
The mechanics weren't looking very hard. IAAM (I Am A Mechanic).
Of course the quick way to find trackers would be to use a freq counter with an antenna and scan you car with the car battery disconnected to eliminate any interference from powered automotive circuits.
Time for a cheap open source RF sniffer?
Valuable info (Score:2, Informative)
How long until the FBI starts selling this info? Hell, it works for Google.
Re:Well (Score:5, Informative)
The second you try to make this a partisan issue is the second you've proven you're drank the kool-aid. Both sides pander to those who give them money, which is everyone with profits on the line who also has enough money to "buy" someone.
Democrat or Republican, same shit, different piles.
Well... there are slight differences, but the end result still tastes crappy.
Re:so (Score:4, Informative)
But, really, I think if you leave something with acid in it to be "discovered" by these guys you will have likely entered into territory you might live to regret.
Although the name contains "acid", butyric acid [wikipedia.org] isn't a dangerous corrosive acid. It just smells really bad.
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Re:If I had a car... (Score:4, Informative)
It's unlikely they can run the GPS receiver without leaking the local oscillator frequency. So a frequency counter should be able to find it.
If I found one of these on my car, I'd consider it my patriotic duty to place it on a vehicle I spend more time on. Namely, the train I ride to work.