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发帖数: 881 | 1 FBI在学生车里装了一个GPS跟踪器。被学生发现了，FBI现在要把跟踪器要回去
Several days ago a 20-year-old student discovered a GPS tracking device
hidden on his car. After his friend posted a picture of it online,
speculating about its ties to a secret FBI investigation, the feds
themselves came a-knockin',according to Wired.com. They wanted their toy
back.
Based on the discussion with the six FBI agents who arrived at his
doorstep, Yassir Afifi believes he'd been under surveillance for three
to six months. When Wired asked an FBI spokesman about the case, he did
not acknowledge ownership of the device, but said that there was an
"ongoing investigation."
Afifi says that he cooperated with the FBI and, according to Wired, "did
nothing to merit attention from authorities." He is a U.S. citizen who
lives in Santa Clara, Calif., where he attends Mission College.
Afifi's father, an Islamic-American activist, died a year ago in Egypt.
It is not clear what the circumstances of his death were, or if this was
the reason for the FBI's investigation of Afifi.
The gadget itself — a GPS receiver identified as a police-issue-only
Cobham Orion Guardian ST820 tracking system, connected to a battery pack
and radio transmitter — was magnetically attached to the car. A shot of
it made its way around the blogosphere on Monday, after appearing on the
community news site Reddit. After Afifi spotted an antenna sticking out
during an oil change, the garage owner offered to yank it out. It
apparently popped off quite easily.
The question of whether or not sticking a GPS on a car is legal is
actually in the middle of a hot debate right now. One federal court
recently said that it was legal, while another said that tracking for an
"extended period of time" would in fact require a warrant. (For more on
this, here's a great piece in Time written by lawyer and tech journalist
Adam Cohen.)
Legality aside, the tactic itself might have been carried out with
something less than precision. Simply put, tracking devices shouldn't be
so easy to find. Wired talked to an agent who said that not only is the
tracking device out of date, but state-of-the-art snoops hardwire the
stuff directly to the car's electrical system, avoiding the need for a
battery.
What's impressive is how quickly Afifi got an identification of the
gadget by crowdsourcing it on the Web. On the flipside, that kind of
exposure isn't good PR for the FBI. Surely the revelation of the
magnetic tracker will cause many people to check under their own cars.
Like many noble efforts to keep us safe from terrorism, this one may be
turning out to not be so effective. After all, those who already know
they're involved in illegal activity probably check their cars every
day, rain or shine. | b*********d
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发帖数: 881 | 3 刘晓波说他的屁眼里也要一个。
刘晓波老婆说他的逼里也要一个。
中国阉党文人们齐声说他们的屁眼里统统塞一个 |
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