GPS Tracker Defence jammer blocks homing beacons you didn't know you had
Look, I know you're paranoid. I can see it in the way you're nervously trying to catch a rearward reflection in the glare of your monitor as you read this post. Relax. No one cares about what you're doing right now.
It's when you head out to your car that you might consider, oh, I don't know, casually making a circuit around all four wheels, looking for tell-tale scuffs in the dust along the chassis, the relief of a steadying hand. (Amateurs!) Because you know what you did. You know where you're going to go next. And so will they.
So consider ordering this "GPS Tracker Defence" device that, when plugged into your car's 12-volt socket, emits a GPS-jamming chorus of electromagnetic screams in a five-meter radius. Which should be enough to knock out any tracking device that's been clipped to your undercarriage. Probably. How sure is your knowledge of how GPS really works?
Here's a test: you'll know the £150 fob is working if your life continues steeped in the same plodding weariness to which you'll never become truly accustomed.
You look nice today.
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don't some aircraft have lighter sockets nowadays?
putting one of these in the next taxi or coach i go in might be fun.
Almost definitely illegal in the US.
How about using one the next time you rent a car. No more pesky penalty fees for driving out of state or going offroading in a prius.
Try dealextreme for about $40 usd.
I assume this will jam Lo-Jack signal too? Car thieves will love this one.
On the downside, will it kill your wireless internet?
Just track the dead spot.
hey, it works in the movies.
I wonder how many of these are ordered via post office boxes, with money orders under false names. I mean, not that I've done that or anything.
I wonder if these could also jam a cell signal?
If so would be great to create a directional antenna you could point at driver or that annoying public phone asshat. Could also be fun to boost the signal up and clear a city block....
Otherwise a solar powered version could really help you hide that geocach treasure chest.
They are so gonna be banned ;(
The next phase of the War on Privacy: a hidden cam in rental cars to detect the use of this device (as well as documenting various other unauthorized intracar activities), followed by disguising this as/incorporating this with a cell-phone charger.
The description for this gadget sounds a lot like something you'd see at Woot.com ^_~
Anon (#4) had a good tip, but it looks like the identical device is $80. Still a lot less than 150 GBP!
They have a larger, "high power" version that's $40.
Wow, that guy in "No Country for Old Men" sure could have used one of those.
Halloween Jack:
No camera, yet, for this purpose. They'll just add a line to your contract forbidding the use of a jammer, and another line authorizing them to charge, oh, $500.00 a day as a penalty during the rental period if your GPS tracking log indicates a period of loss of signal. You won't notice the line until the bill is presented to you. Oh, and they'll lobby to make blocking GPS on a commercial vehicle a felony akin to grand theft auto.
As for cell phones, why it would be against the law to block your own phone's tracking device is beyond me. The GPS E911 system was supposed to help us, not put us in jail. I've no doubt it is illegal to jam or physically remove the GPS tracker from your phone. If it isn't, it will be, once they see anyone doing it.
Face it. The GPS devices in our phones, and soon built into the computers in our cars, are there for prosecutorial purposes. They want a tracking log, good to a few feet, on every phone and car in the US. Why wouldn't they? They have it on the phones, and the car is child's play.
Try this: imagine a crime, committed somewhere. Almost anything is a crime, so easily done. No imagine them data mining the tracker logs of phones and cars. Imagine them finding you nearby. After that, it's just a job of writing a good enough piece of fiction to convince a jury, or a "military tribunal" at a gulag of not-your-choice.
It's not worth it, not for all the pedophiles and terraists in the world. This has no purpose, other than that Poindexter and his fellow Nixonians in the old Reagan/Bush shadow government have had a raging thirst for this kind of power since their days in the Nixon and Reagan basements. There won't be any trackers on those bastids; that style of thing is for the peons.
If you've any doubt on what they are doing with this total surveillance state, just look back at the last seven years and think. Also, imagine why so many politicians are so quiet on the subject. Think of all the recorded movements, phone calls, email, chats, that the total surveillance buggers have on members of Congress... people are human, they do things they are not supposed to do. The Total Info Awareness system has provided the system's owners with unparalleled material for, shall we say, a quiet chat with any rebellious Senators and Congresscritters that may even think of, say, voting for impeachment.
That's what GPS tracking gives us. A whole nation, under surveillance, under perpetual blackmail. Under fear.