Court limits in-car FBI spying

Court limits in-car FBI spying
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2003-11-19

An appeals court this week put the brakes on an FBI surveillance technique that turns an automobile driver's on-board vehicle navigation system into a covert eavesdropping device, after finding that the spying effectively disables the system's emergency and roadside assistance features.

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Court limits in-car FBI spying 2003-11-21
Anonymous (1 replies)

But if the person(s) in the car are not the customer, can this argument really be vaild? Unless the customer is the actual car......

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Court limits in-car FBI spying 2003-11-21
Snowdog (1 replies)

I think the assumption is that the FBI would be eavesdropping on people who actually owned the car, in which case they would still be a customer and entitled to the services provided....

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Court limits in-car FBI spying 2003-11-21
Scott Miller <smiller (at) secureadmin (dot) ca [email concealed]>

Yeah, I would have to agree with Snowdog's statement there. Now, as cognitive as the FBI is, you would have thought they would have said they were ready to pass along any trouble flags that would come off the frequency. Anyhow ... what scares me is the fact that I can be wathced by something of my...

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Court limits in-car FBI spying 2003-11-24
Anonymous (1 replies)

What bothers me most, is that this can, and is being done in secret. If the spying doesn't reveal any information leading to a trial, do you think the parties are ever going to know that they had been spied upon for weeks? Obviously not. If there was at least some obligation to inform parties of ...

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Court limits in-car FBI spying 2003-11-26
Anonymous (1 replies)

Just hook an LED up to the mic circuit or maybe the transmitter. ...

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Court limits in-car FBI spying 2003-11-26
W

And void your warranty... Yeah sure, most folks will do that.

The real point here is that there is NO obligation to notify the party being snooped. Nor is the government obligated to make any showing to a court that the particular information or communication to be acquired is relevant to a cri...

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