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Post by sipacate »

beachy wrote: post #122
tubbs wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With growing car theft in the US I've been curious about implanting GPS trackers on my own older enthusiast vehicles. There appears to be many options on Amazon but I can't bring myself to trust any of them. Has anyone here gone down that road before?

If you want to diy it, Check out ray Ozzie's recent project featured here on HN recently. Very reasonable priced with one up front payment for (10 ?) years of connectivity

Here are some articles and projects where we show how to do Asset Tracking. One article is about an Iceland trip, the other is about building out a GPS tracker, complete with data dashboards.

Iceland: https://blues.io/blog/vacation-gps-asset-tracker/

Full Asset Tracking Project: https://www.hackster.io/paige-niedringhaus/low-code-gps-asse...

Adapting this for a car would be straightforward.

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Post by kag0 »

lisper wrote: post #62

I'm not sure what is scarier, the existence of this cable, or the amount of Javascript that this site tries to run when you visit it. According to my NoScript plugin, it's loading Javascript from at least 17 different domains.

Totally unrelated to this cable, but since you mention it...

I've been trying to build web/single page applications using new ES modules and no build tool, so all dependencies are pulled from their creator/CDN rather than bundled locally. Would this set off flags for a no-script user?

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Post by SavantIdiot »

cbg0 wrote: post #9
aabajian wrote: post #2

I live in Seattle and have had my car broken into three times. Each time, they steal my iPhone's USB cable. I wonder, could they add cellular connectivity to this cable and use it as a GPS locator?

Are they really breaking into your car just to steal your USB cable or is there other stuff you leave in plain sight?

My car was broken into 3pm in the afternooon in Austin last summer. Nothing visible. They emptied the console and glovebox.

They stole:

* cheap sunglasses

* tire pressure gauge

* box of bandaids

* my car's USER MANUAL, ffs

* charging cable

They left:

* small envelope with $80 cash tucked under the removable console coin holder.

* all the coins.

So very confused.

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Post by ManBlanket »

lrvick wrote: post #57
hughrr wrote: post #52

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When USB came out I was working in the defence sector. We closed the vector off with cages for the PCs with tied looms under desks, epoxy in all the holes we didn’t want people to use and with threat of being in deep shit.

When I was frequently using things like this on coworkers in red teaming (back when being in an office was a thing) putting my own desktop in a steel cage with a good lock proved effective against retaliation. Then we moved on to attacking the firmware in each others keyboards.

Being in an office is definitely still a thing. Let's be real, vaccinated adults working from home is a privilege. Mostly a white upper middle class one. Always was.

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Post by burnished »

_RPL5_ wrote: post #186

Who buys this stuff? Other things in the shop: > Screen Crab: This covert inline screen grabber sits between HDMI devices - like a computer and monitor, or console and television - to quietly capture screenshots. Perfect for sysadmins, pentesters and anyone wanting to record what's on a screen. > Shark Jack: This portable network attack tool is a pentesters best friend optimized for social engineering engagements and…

I think the only thing you are missing is that most people most of the time don't want to hurt or bother others and that much of society functioning relies on this.

Cause nothing stopping you from buying any of that, at what looks like very reasonable rates.

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Post by voiper1 »

aabajian wrote: post #2

I live in Seattle and have had my car broken into three times. Each time, they steal my iPhone's USB cable. I wonder, could they add cellular connectivity to this cable and use it as a GPS locator?

Sounds like now you should be worried if they "leave" your iPhone USB cable, they might have switched it with one that hacks you.

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Post by burnished »

cromat3 wrote: post #190
tschwimmer wrote: post #81

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As clever as this idea sounds, it's not a good suggestion. I once accidentally left my windows down in SF for 12 hours and my car was essentially stripped clean - headrests, registration, proof of insurance, manual, floor mats - all gone. Additionally all my doors and trunk were wide open.

Sounds horrible and for me it is unimaginable. In Croatia, you rarely hear that a car waa broken into even in bigger cities. In smaller towns a lot of people don't even bother to lock their cars.

I suspect it might be due to demand/ability to unload hot goods. Or maybe yall got it good in Croatia and no one feels the desire to go rifling through cars?

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Post by heleninboodler »

mikeatlas wrote: post #136
beachy wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you want to diy it, Check out ray Ozzie's recent project featured here on HN recently. Very reasonable priced with one up front payment for (10 ?) years of connectivity

https://blues.io/

This feels like a dumb question, but I can't find dimensions of the Notecard anywhere and I can't quite judge the scale from the pictures. How big is it?

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Post by a1369209993 »

lrvick wrote: post #144
hinkley wrote: post #100

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My school had a way to keep peripherals from wandering off, but if all you need to do is swap the cables then I’m not sure that would still work. Wrapping the cables into a wiring loom makes that process slower, assuming the loom is complicated enough. Did you ever use heat shrink? Or locking cable ties? What the school did was run a steel cable behind the desks, then put a loop of the mouse chord through a steel was…

On most keyboards and mice the cables are not soldered on the inside but just a quick connector. You can get a female/male versions of this connector placed on either side of an attiny85 for a quick solderless implant no one will ever see. Then just undo 2 screws, plug your implant inside the mouse/keyboard, screw it back. To make this harder intentionally strip the screws with a drill, understanding you will never b…

> To make this harder

Or, y'know, open it up and solder the connecter together (or remove the connector and solder the cable wires directly).

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Post by neuronic »

erhk wrote: post #129
Closi wrote: post #96

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Probably “Project Phoenix”. If you ask any project team to come up with a project name they will probably pick ‘Project Phoenix’.

Because all project work is reviving something that has been done before?

No, because all new projects are on fire from the get go.
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