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Help me identify possible tracking device found in my car
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Re: Help me identify possible tracking device found in my car
#162This reminds me of that time a guy on Reddit found a tracker on his car and ended up being FBI's. https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/dmh5s/does_this... https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/doe17/update_to...
Now they just ask your cell phone company.
... and claim that they got the data from "apps".
Really, we swear. But we can't tell you which ones. Maybe the apps running on the cell towers.
Re: Help me identify possible tracking device found in my car
#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
What is the usecase for a remote starter? I don't really understand why someone would want this. Could even be dangerous if it's left in gear.
It's hyper super duper useful in rough climates. Primarily when it's minus 40 outside and you have kids, it's nice to warm up the car slightly before entering it. If you get spoiled, you might then also remote start it when it's plus 40 outside and you want ac to at least start. Also note that "if it's left in gear" is virtually irrelevant in North America, fwiw - something like under 2 percent of cars here are manua…
I didn't realize the percentage of manual transmissions was so low, no wonder the car culture there seems to idolize it.
In my climate, on a 45c day, inside the car's going to be more than that. It's definitely a workout for the generally imported car's A/C unit. I am guilty of turning the car on and waiting under a tree or something for the AC to bring the temperature down to at least ambient.
I'm looking at a series hybrid car. I must admit, pre-conditioning the car off the battery would be pretty luxurious.
Re: Help me identify possible tracking device found in my car
#164GitHub required me to log in to see the content on this link. Are they going all the way of Facebook, Twitter and other shady patterns practitioners? Update: was unable to reproduce, maybe an a/b test or security check.
That's strange. I did not have to. I wonder if it was based on your user agent, or some anti-crawler detection? I have noticed this with a lot of websites recently, things like Twitter and Instagram only sometimes ask me to log in to view things. Reddit as well, will be happy to show me some article, then later that same day it'll ask me to log in.
You are right. I logged out, and then proceeded to view the gist without logging in. Maybe they left some tracking cookie after log out (like device id), or they invalidated my previous session and triggered login on that invalidated session.
Re: Help me identify possible tracking device found in my car
#165If you google KARR Honda or KARR Alarm you should find some better information. I found identical looking devices by using Google Lens and focusing on just the black box with the green button. https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2016/08/never-buy-car-alar... https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisit/comments/rnr48t/found_unde... https://www.reddit.com/r/subaru/comments/7m9dv9/mysterious_b...
It's amusing to me that someone would go through the effort of deconstructing it, writing a gist, and posting it on HN before literally just googling "device under steering wheel" and seeing other people posting about the _exact_ same device. People tend to imagine their lives are more interesting and worthy of surveillance than they really are :)
He googled the device name, which I would also expect to show up in posts by others.
Re: Help me identify possible tracking device found in my car
#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's hyper super duper useful in rough climates. Primarily when it's minus 40 outside and you have kids, it's nice to warm up the car slightly before entering it. If you get spoiled, you might then also remote start it when it's plus 40 outside and you want ac to at least start. Also note that "if it's left in gear" is virtually irrelevant in North America, fwiw - something like under 2 percent of cars here are manua…
Thanks also, I get it now. I used to do this manually sometimes in the Netherlands to warm up the ice to make it easier to scrape off. But it involved the spare key to relock it while running and also to set the heat to full blast. We never get minus 40 though and where I live now it doesn't even freeze :) And as we also have pretty tiny engines here, it takes a long time to heat up this way because first the cooling…
Note that, for emmesions, heating up the car in stationary is actually positive. It prevents driving a car with a cold engine. Cold engines cause horrible inefficiency in cars. It's one of the reasons why city driving is worse for mileage and emissions than highway driving. Shorter trips.
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#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cars built in the last 15 years usually don't need to be warned up: https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/car-technology/a19086/... But yeah, icy/foggy windows are a pain to clear. I live in Montreal, and when I had an ICE car, most days, it was fine to just de-icing the windows, then start the motor, and slowly roll out of the alley. Admittedly, most winter days, it's not that cold. Kind of drives me crazy, the smel…
> Cars built in the last 15 years usually don't need to be warned up: They don't need to be warmed up for the engine . They still might need to be warmed up for the driver , though.
Sometimes you can’t drive until the defroster is warm enough to keep your own breath from fogging the windshield.
Re: Help me identify possible tracking device found in my car
#168This reminds me of that time a guy on Reddit found a tracker on his car and ended up being FBI's. https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/dmh5s/does_this... https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/doe17/update_to...
Now they just ask your cell phone company.
I'm guessing that nearly everybody knows this by now, and for those occasional times when burying a body or whatever, would leave the phone at home.
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#169Earlier quoted context omitted.
Almost every car I’ve recently owned and/or rented has this option: unlock the car, then hold down the unlock button to roll all the windows down (and in some models, additionally open the sunroof).
I hate this feature with all my heart. Ive never needed it or wanted it and can easily roll down my own windows. 4-5 times ive come back to my car and windows rolled down after shopping or working as i must have accidentally activated it.
Same for the remote trunk opener. I can't count how many times people rang my doorbell at night to alert my the trunk is open.
Re: Help me identify possible tracking device found in my car
#170Just in case you want to look at the transmission with an RTL-SDR or something like that: it transmits on 433.92MHz for an an external reference of 6.7458MHz. It's on page 8 of the CY800 datasheet.