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>its GPS trackers can’t be physically disabled That's just a silly statement. Anything can be physically disabled; the question is how difficult and time-consuming disabling it is. Maybe it's encased in a steel block in the engine compartment in series with vital wiring connections but even then some work with an angle-grinder and a soldering iron could get around it given a couple of hours.
>its GPS trackers can’t be physically disabled That's just a silly statement. Anything can be physically disabled; the question is how difficult and time-consuming disabling it is. Maybe it's encased in a steel block in the engine compartment in series with vital wiring connections but even then some work with an angle-grinder and a soldering iron could get around it given a couple of hours.
Simply shield the electronics from being able to emit. Then deal with it at a later point
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archive.is is blocked in Australia and some other countries, along with many other sites. For Australia this happened in May this year. Most ISP's just use DNS-filtering to block it, so getting around it is as easy as changing your DNS settings.
I am in Australia and the link worked fine, so this must only be true for certain ISPs?
My isp's nameserver responds with "REFUSED". Quad 9 works just fine:
$ nslookup archive.is 125.253.59.220
Server: 125.253.59.220
Address: 125.253.59.220#53
** server can't find archive.is: REFUSED
$ nslookup archive.is 9.9.9.9
Server: 9.9.9.9
Address: 9.9.9.9#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: archive.is
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Do you have any citations for what seems like an extreme claim in your second paragraph?
Credit scores? This is a fairly widely known fact that honestly shouldn’t need citations. There’s a reason banks secure credit cards from people with no credit history. There’s a reason insurance in Florida is different than the rest of the U.S. etc
Second, the whole concept of “bad neighborhoods” where people aren’t trustworthy is partly a racist trope (there are good and bad people everywhere), and partly the result of generations of well-documented racist policies by the government and banks that prevented those areas from being developed.
Third, nobody said the cars were getting stolen from “bad neighborhoods”. What the article says is that the vehicles were being driven to an area just outside of the Car2Go coverage area and dumped there.
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Unrelated to the story, but could my ISP possibly be blocking archive.is? Is this a known issue with that site? None of the links ever work for me, but it seems that I can access it anywhere but my home network.
Using Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 DNS? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317
>its GPS trackers can’t be physically disabled That's just a silly statement. Anything can be physically disabled; the question is how difficult and time-consuming disabling it is. Maybe it's encased in a steel block in the engine compartment in series with vital wiring connections but even then some work with an angle-grinder and a soldering iron could get around it given a couple of hours.
Gps trackers cant penetrate a thick lead shield. Simply shield the electronics from being able to emit. Then deal with it at a later point
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Credit scores? This is a fairly widely known fact that honestly shouldn’t need citations. There’s a reason banks secure credit cards from people with no credit history. There’s a reason insurance in Florida is different than the rest of the U.S. etc
First off, credit scores don’t necessarily correlate directly to honesty, they correlate to likelihood to pay back a debt, which could be driven by unfortunate circumstances like a sudden medical expense or loss of a job. Someone who is hit by a car and spends six months in the hospital may have a crap credit score and still be an honest person. Second, the whole concept of “bad neighborhoods” where people aren’t tru…
The concept of a "bad neighborhood" comes from crime statistics, not racist tropes. Either crime (theft, robbery, fraud, et all) is high, or it is not high, race be damned. Subscribers to a particular political ideology need to calm down with the whole "your facts/science are racist" bit, because it hurts everyone overall in the long run.
Never underestimate how much cleverer than you people will be when it comes to money. They spend their full time on figuring out how to use the system in ways you didn't expect, whereas you don't even spend full time on getting the things to work the way you barely took the time to think they would. Secondly, take away the lesson that there's a reason that banks/stores/merchants don't lower their standards and go int…
Do you have any citations for what seems like an extreme claim in your second paragraph?
This happened in the 90s with rental cars. Organized insurance fraud (fake accidents with fake or overblown injuries) was incredibly rampant in Brooklyn, to the point that renting cars without significant deposits became difficult if you were from certain zip codes.
In this case, the company decided that performing due diligence on customers to determine whether they are real increased friction too much. They did this because shittier companies like Uber push the risks of inviting anonymous people into their cars onto independent contractors.
This is interesting because I always thought these "background checks" were just a formality. Like something needed for their insurance or to weed out a few extreme individuals (like those with multiple-DUIs or a heavy history of wrecks on their record). But the fact that they can ease up on background checks and see an immediate large bulk of car thefts is damning evidence that the background checks were truly havin…
Correlation does not imply causation
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Do you have any citations for what seems like an extreme claim in your second paragraph?
Credit scores? This is a fairly widely known fact that honestly shouldn’t need citations. There’s a reason banks secure credit cards from people with no credit history. There’s a reason insurance in Florida is different than the rest of the U.S. etc
The issue here was fraud. My credit score doesn’t help you assess risk if someone else is impersonating me.