Photos of an FBI tracking device found by a suspect

Fri Oct 8 08:29:16 PDT 2010

On Oct 8, 2010, at 11:21 16AM, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

> My question: if someone plants something in your car, isn't it your
> property afterwards?
> 
> http://gawker.com/5658671/dont-post-pictures-of-an-fbi-tracking-device-you-find-on-a-car-to-the-internet

See http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/10/fbi-tracking-device/ for even more disturbing aspects of the story -- they operated by intimidation (to say nothing of apparent ethnic and religious profiling).

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb

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