Any words on the IMEI in use? Maybe some nice folks can then leak some info.
GPS tracking device found on an activist's car
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Re: GPS tracking device found on an activist's car
#92Very few companies produce GPS chips. Most devices that include GPS capability do not bother to reinvent the wheel, but instead elect to integrate an existing GPS processing chip. It's unlikely the GPS module is integrated with the processor core of this thing. Since it is likely separate, it would be fun to probe the PCB with a logic analyzer to see if there are any exposed serial (or possibly I2C, SPI) traces relay…
It would be fun injecting fake paths to some NSA datacenter, a military supplier IC foundry, Area 51, and CIA HQ. The people monitoring him may draw some strange conclusions.
Fun and pretty solidly stupid. The last thing you want to do when you're being followed is antagnoize the people following you. Especially so if you think the tracking violates your civil rights.
The best outcome for you is contacting a lawyer, a media outlet, and the people you think are surveilling you; the local police and FBI field office are a good start.
Making already suspicious people think you're doing something crazy or threatening isn't going to make your life any better. Something like how making jokes about bombs in airports will not improve your circumstances.
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#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
The enterprising hacker could always use a LabSat[1] device to play back a bogus GPS trace. No physical connection to the board is required. [1] http://www.labsat.co.uk
It's so much easier to just keep passing it around to your friends so they can attach it to as many different cars (or other kinds of vehicle) as possible. Imagine what your fans in government would think if the logs of your car included long periods over water or a trip to the stratosphere or a trek through the woods. Or they decided to find you once you decided to seemingly leave civilization behind to discover you…
Or just strap it to an albatross, and waste a lot of someone's time scrutinising empty ocean.
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#94Seriously, these things can be bought COTS in WAY better shape for 35€ ( http://www.pearl.de/a-PX3490-1511.shtml ). If you want to hide it, just wrap it in black tape. I wonder who chose to self-build this thing with cheap-ass kits being available...
Your link is not based on GPS, is not waterproof, only has 1 week of battery (if it doesn't transmit any locations).
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
The bigger problem is that many potentially evil things are really cool.
Things cannot be evil in and of themselves. It takes sentient intention that you judge to be so for it to be (to you).
I guess it's hard to prove, but I think certain objects are inherently correlated with good/evil. E.g. a torture device is inherently evil IMHO, and a vaccine is inherently good.
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#96I think one of the first things I'd try when finding such a device on my premises would be to try and login to the self-service portal of the mobile carrier that issued the SIM card. At least in the case of my phone-service provider (I'm also located in the EU) this uses the phone number, and a password which can be requested by SMS...
In the case of my provider, the permission to use the self-service portal which include the possibility to view/change billing addresses and shows all the numbers active on a contract, can, of course, be enabled/disabled per telephone number. But it will be worth a try...
Re: GPS tracking device found on an activist's car
#97Looks different than the FBI one iFixit tore down at least: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Tracking+Device+Teardown/525...
Re: GPS tracking device found on an activist's car
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
Things cannot be evil in and of themselves. It takes sentient intention that you judge to be so for it to be (to you).
I guess it's hard to prove, but I think certain objects are inherently correlated with good/evil. E.g. a torture device is inherently evil IMHO, and a vaccine is inherently good.
I guess you could kill with vaccine if you really wanted to, and you can have sex using torture device if you're into that kind of stuff.
Re: GPS tracking device found on an activist's car
#99Very few companies produce GPS chips. Most devices that include GPS capability do not bother to reinvent the wheel, but instead elect to integrate an existing GPS processing chip. It's unlikely the GPS module is integrated with the processor core of this thing. Since it is likely separate, it would be fun to probe the PCB with a logic analyzer to see if there are any exposed serial (or possibly I2C, SPI) traces relay…
Aw man I loved your comment right up to the point where you gave people a suggestion on how to make better surveillance tech :(
A good designer would know how to make the device harder to muck with, they don't need help in the form of comments on web forums. There are whole companies (in the financial and security sectors) whose job is to create devices that are difficult to tamper with.
Here, it looks like they didn't even try, or if they did, their designer wasn't very good.
Re: GPS tracking device found on an activist's car
#100Cool! Free SIM card with data!
No pin number required?