An EFF Investigation: Mystery GPS tracker on a supporter’s car @EFF
Being able to accurately determine your location anywhere on the planet is a useful technological trick. But when tracking isn’t done by you, but to you—without your knowledge or consent—it’s a violation of your privacy. That’s why at EFF, they’ve long fought against dragnet surveillance, mobile device tracking, and warrantless GPS tracking.
An EFF supporter brought her car to a mechanic and found a mysterious device wired into her car under her driver’s seat. This supporter sent the EFF an email asking if they could determine whether the device was a GPS tracker, and if so, who might have installed it.
You can read about the methods the EFF used to investigate the device and it’s provenance in the article here.
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Found one of these in the firewall of my truck… they usually hide two of them… the one in the firewall usually picks up voice/Audio and they can dial in
Found one of these in the firewall of my truck… they usually hide two of them… the one in the firewall usually picks up voice/Audio and they can dial in
Interesting! Though I can’t help but notice the “D+” and “D-” pads and wonder if there was a USB interface available…
Internet of Things finally is coming for makers, thanks a lot Adafruit.
My contribution: https://microlab.ec/blog/modulo-gsm-gprs-a6-con-arduino/