In-car spyware rant

Last week[1] the Washington Post described Nu Labour as the most
secretive and controlling political party in the 'Western' world.

[1] I think it was last week. It was all about Lord Hutton and the way
he has got around the government restrictions[2] on his inquiry by
having everything said in the inquiry put on to the Internet before the
governments mandarins can sort through it.

[2] It is not as TB said, an open inquiry. That would have needed a
recall of parliament and be set up under the 1921(?) act. Lord Hutton
was told what he could and could not investigate by the government and
that all reports and finding must go to the government first before
release. This apparently really pissed him off as he felt he was being
used to impart credibility to a cover up. The web site was his way of
getting around it. The website having been established, to have it shut
down would have exposed the hypocrisy of the government.

Reading your news from abroad puts quite a different 'spin' on things.

 

*glug*

 

You mean, like the way Trafficmaster poles aren't everywhere? Nor
Gatsos?

 

Got that ;-)))

Well, it has an MoT. And insurance. Nowt else, and funnily enough, it
isn't registered to me either....

 

I was thinking that How would you destroy a passive chip (like the ones
we have in our cats!) in a plate? X-Ray it? EMP?

 

Put the plate (not the cat) in the micro wave for 15 seconds.

 

I saw another gatso burnt out up near Sandringham the other day.

 

This may turn out to be a good deterrent. When an Airbus that had just
been leased by Ethiopian Airways[1] was high-jacked by some Muslim
fundamentalist. The government army guys stormed the plane and captured
the high-jackers. The high-jackers were then zip tied into the first
class seats where towels were put over the upholstery. They then had
their throats cut one by one on national TV.

The airline has never been troubled since.

[1] I'm 99% certain it was EA or from some where near there.

 

The Older Gentleman was seen penning the following ode to ... whatever:

If it's an RFID type tag then a sufficiently strong electric discharge
should do it. Hmm. Put the numberplate under some metal and then use
an arcwelder on the metal?

 

Microwave. As a bonus you get crispy cat. Tastes like chicken.

 

Heh. I saw one in Tunbridge Wells that had been similarly barbecued.
Nice.

 

Would that be this one?

1993: Two hijackers and a woman passenger die when security forces
storm a hijacked Ethiopian Airlines plane in eastern Ethiopia

Except for:

November 23, 1996, Fazul masterminded the hijack of Ethiopian Airlines
flight 961 between the Ethiopian capital and Nairobi. The airliner
came down with empty fuel tanks 500 yards from Galawa Beach at the
Indian Ocean Islamic Republic of the Comoros Islands.

Only 48 of the 127 passengers survived the attack. The victims
included seven Israelis: Shraga Bar Nissan, Amram Ben David, Gad Levi,
Eli Levkovitch, Yehuda Soroka – heads of Israel’s Aircraft Industries,
Yehezkiel Raz, executive of ECI Communications, and Yaacov Bar-On,
member of an elite anti-terror unit, who was traveling under cover as
an engineering student.

CIA officer Leslie-Ann Shedd, head of the US Horn of Africa operation,
was also murdered in the attack, together with the head of Ukrainian
intelligence.

To this day, none of the three governments concerned, American,
Israeli and Ukrainian, admits the Ethiopian Airways hijack was a well-
planned al Qaeda attack, that there was a firefight aboard the
airliner and that the victims were deliberately murdered.

Algeria?

24 December 1994; Air France A300; Algiers Airport, Algeria: Hijackers
killed 3 of the 267 passengers. Later, commandos retook the aircraft
and killed four hijackers.



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| ___ Salad Dodger
|/ \ GL1500SEV/CBR1100XXX/KH500A8/TS250C/exTS185C
_/_____\_ ..57146../..13615.../..3157./.19406/.fecked.
|_\_____/_| IMC#4 TPPFATUICG#7 YTC#4 DIAABTCOD#9 PM#5
(>|_|_|<) BOTAFOT #70 two#11 Ignoramus #0001
|__|_|__| BOTAFOF #09 IbW#0 & KotIbW# OSOS#07
\ |^| / WG* BotTOS #6 GP#4 ANORAK#17
\|^|/ 2003 RBR landmarks:81 points:1740 miles:6835
'^'

 

Could be, all I can recall was it was an Airbus and it was tied in with
the African continent. I read it in Aviation Week or Flight some time
ago. But who ever it happened to didn't have any trouble after.

 

http://www.gtc.org.uk/mainsite/zerb-s97/mo-amin.htm

Aye.
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| ___ Salad Dodger
|/ \ GL1500SEV/CBR1100XXX/KH500A8/TS250C/exTS185C
_/_____\_ ..57146../..13615.../..3157./.19406/.fecked.
|_\_____/_| IMC#4 TPPFATUICG#7 YTC#4 DIAABTCOD#9 PM#5
(>|_|_|<) BOTAFOT #70 two#11 Ignoramus #0001
|__|_|__| BOTAFOF #09 IbW#0 & KotIbW# OSOS#07
\ |^| / WG* BotTOS #6 GP#4 ANORAK#17
\|^|/ 2003 RBR landmarks:81 points:1740 miles:6835
'^'

 

Trafficmaster poles are provided by a commercial organistion - so low
overheads i.e. cheap to cover the country.

Gatsos pay for themselves, and whatever we might feel aren't that
numerous (except in Northamptonshire).

These things would have to be every couple of 100m for the scheme
outlined in the Times to work. Given that each one would involve
about 1000 bureaucrats having committee meetings on precisely what
type of concrete to use for the base, the cost would be horrendous.

A watered down version, maybe. But something that can tell where you
are at all times - no chance. If they base the location sensing on
GPS, with the poles just being used to download data from your "black
box" every few miles, it'll be a piece of piss to block the GPS
receiver.

 

My round trip to work is 11 miles.

I go past 14 cameras.

Not numerous, eh?

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| ___ Salad Dodger
|/ \ GL1500SEV/CBR1100XXX/KH500A8/TS250C/exTS185C
_/_____\_ ..57146../..13615.../..3157./.19406/.fecked.
|_\_____/_| IMC#4 TPPFATUICG#7 YTC#4 DIAABTCOD#9 PM#5
(>|_|_|<) BOTAFOT #70 two#11 Ignoramus #0001
|__|_|__| BOTAFOF #09 IbW#0 & KotIbW# OSOS#07
\ |^| / WG* BotTOS #6 GP#4 ANORAK#17
\|^|/ 2003 RBR landmarks:81 points:1740 miles:6835
'^'

 

Salad Dodger :

My trip to work is 11 miles, and I go past 3 in each direction. Tomorrow,
my trip to work will be 6 miles, and I'll go past 6 in each direction.

Luckily I'll be cycling to work now, so it's not much bother.

 

Normal X-rays wouldn't do it, otherwise I would have fucked up a few
digital watches, calculators and various bike electrcal bits by now ;-)

 

<checks other thread I just posted to>

Phew. Glad I didn't say that.

 

I've not read the article, but they'd probably just cover the busiest
roads first, proclaim it was a success and then move it closer to the
sticks as time passes. You'd only need one or two at each junction on
motorways, and one near certain intersections.

In cities it wouldn't be an impossible task[1] to work out which
junctions to station them at to catch all traffic. Plant one on every
approach road and certain junctions in town for better definition.

The further out in the sticks you go the more people will rely on A
roads to actually get anywhere worthwhile. I don't think it would be
prohibitively expensive in the govt.s eyes, and if they did think twice
about it they could play up the "combats crime and therefore terrorism"
thing.

[1] Something to ask a university to solve by giving it to a 3rd year
town planner or comp. sci. undergrad?