(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)
[email protected]> 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 > >
