Its packaging doesn't mention that it is a tracking device so I guess the intended usage is a present, for example, at a business meeting or to a child, a relative?
A low budget consumer hardware espionage implant (2018)
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#92An even easier one would be a modified keyboard. Anyone could fit an esp32 into a keyboard, swap it out, leave it lying around, sniff keystrokes, access with Bluetooth or WiFi, could have it only have the radio on for certain windows in time etc.
Yes but giving a keyboard as a present is more suspicious than just a harmless data cable.
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#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
The caveat being that these things are only doing cell tower triangulation, and not even a good job of it. So all it will be able to tell you is that your car is somewhere on the east side of the city or so. Although you will be able to listen in on the conversations of the car thieves and might pick up a clue from that. Realistically, these are 100% for stalking/espionage.
I took the exact opposite conclusion from this information. How is it useful for stalking if it doesn't give more exact location? On the other hand if I'm looking for my own car that somebody took out of the city, this at least gives me a general idea of its location.
It's packaging says "data cable", not a "car tracking device". Why would they use misleading packaging that the thieves would never see? Obviously it is meant to be used as a present, or for example, for an employee bringing this "cable" to work.
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't imagine the UK doesn't have laws to prevent anonymous SIM card purchases, because of terrorism fears. Some duckduckgo-ing suggests it's possible, e.g. someone wrote just go to Tesco to get one and there are no ID checks (but this was written 6 years ago). In any case, just like teenagers buying booze, it's probably not that hard to pay someone off the street to buy one for you.
You can literally go into almost any corner shop in the UK and buy a SIM with no ID and cash. I do this regularly.
Any chance your purchase triggers the ~238 surveillance cameras on your route back from the store to get a good idea of who they're dealing with?
The UK used to be a surveillance outlier, but sadly other places have caught up in the meantime, including the US.
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
I took the exact opposite conclusion from this information. How is it useful for stalking if it doesn't give more exact location? On the other hand if I'm looking for my own car that somebody took out of the city, this at least gives me a general idea of its location.
It's packaging says "data cable", not a "car tracking device". Why would they use misleading packaging that the thieves would never see? Obviously it is meant to be used as a present, or for example, for an employee bringing this "cable" to work.
Good point, didn't notice that.
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#96Incredible
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can literally go into almost any corner shop in the UK and buy a SIM with no ID and cash. I do this regularly.
Any chance your purchase triggers the ~238 surveillance cameras on your route back from the store to get a good idea of who they're dealing with? The UK used to be a surveillance outlier, but sadly other places have caught up in the meantime, including the US.
It’s ok.
Only about 2 of them will record anything resembling a usable image - the rest are either broken, potato quality, pointing at nothing, or recording to media that’s so fucked that it’s highly unlikely to capture anything useful.
Not to mention the vast majority of them are privately owned and require a shit tonne of paperwork for the cops to access them, so they don’t bother unless it’s a murder case.
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#98"No official documentation nor information about the chip is available from MediaTek."
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
Any chance your purchase triggers the ~238 surveillance cameras on your route back from the store to get a good idea of who they're dealing with? The UK used to be a surveillance outlier, but sadly other places have caught up in the meantime, including the US.
It’s ok. Only about 2 of them will record anything resembling a usable image - the rest are either broken, potato quality, pointing at nothing, or recording to media that’s so fucked that it’s highly unlikely to capture anything useful. Not to mention the vast majority of them are privately owned and require a shit tonne of paperwork for the cops to access them, so they don’t bother unless it’s a murder case.
Nonetheless the coverage was enough for highly motivated law enforcement agencies to reconstruct almost every step of the paths taken by the Russian assassins, sorry, “sports nutritionists”, when they paid a visit to the UK to nourish a certain enemy of Russia with Novichok.