Fw: Hi, I'm from the government and I'm here to screw you

[brian carroll]

(perhaps that is it then, if a circling c-130 electronics warfare aircraft
can siphon up all signals in a given geography else satellite overhead
and access all Vehicle IDs to target and track. thanks for the info)


dan at geer.org> wrote:

>
>  > about the V2V cars- what is the likelihood that automobiles are _not
>  > tagged in some way, just like computers, given that location or other
>  > data is critically important and perhaps more easily accessible or
>  > tracked outside of a particular environment...
>
> If you have a newish car, it has a radio in every tire's valve stem.
> If I know the radio signature of your car, then my roadside bomb
> will only miss you if you aren't in the vehicle that day.  And that
> is putting aside all the other wireless goo new cars come with, and
> the embedded systems some (many) of which can reach that wireless
> goo, and the fact that people pay to be tracked (OnStar), and the
> mountain of data that the OBDI (On Board Diagnostic Interface) holds
> including the VIN, and the hundred startups vying to get their plug
> in your OBDI and upload your data to their cloud, and the insurers
> who'll buy your cooperation with monitoring for a few percent off
> the bill, and the spot to plug your mobile into the car's on-board
> net, and the automated gizmo to determine if you're driving drunk
> and kill the engine if you are, and the LED headlamps that can quite
> easily be pulsing data that your eyeballs will never detect, and
> the electric car's battery charger that will double as a software
> (pun) auto-update portal, and the robot that will soon be driving
> for you, like it or not, because by then the State of California,
> et al., will know that robots drive greener than you do, etc., etc.
>
> Don't buy a model later than 1993...
>
> --dan
>
>
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