By: wizardpc
People thought I was crazy when I told them GPS tracking and audio monitoring capabilities by a corporate entity were a bad idea. Just wait til Verizon, AT&T, and Tmobile are “too big to fail.”
View ArticleBy: Standard Mischief
Scary. It’s like they wouldn’t need a warrant any more to spy on you or something. Oh wait.
View ArticleBy: nk
Err … guys … like … you know … that GPS thing is kind of like … you know … satellites that the government sent up and is keeping up there? If you have any kind of GPS device, the government does not...
View ArticleBy: Brutal Hugger
The question here is what is the additional risk of the gov owning OnStar? AT&T is privately owned, but that provided exactly zero protection against it being used to spy on Americans. It doesn’t...
View ArticleBy: JKB
The GPS satellites do not track the receivers. The receivers we use receive a timing signal from several of the satellites and triangulates a position from the time delays. Our “GPS” devices now have...
View ArticleBy: DeadCenter
Don’t get ALL paranoid on us now. A GPS is just a RECEIVER, it doesn’t transmit anything except for some generic electronic fields. What allows Bib Bro to track you is your cell phone taking that data...
View ArticleBy: nk
Uncle #5, I am no expert in this area. I said what I said because the Defense Department is using GPS for the missiles we send now, all sea and air navigation depends on it, and it needed Rumsfeld’s...
View ArticleBy: Nomen Nescio
nk, GPS doesn’t quite work that way. Uncle, yes, but not navigation satellites (thus far, anyway). still, what wizardpc said. i’d made up my mind not to own a car with onstar shortly after the thing...
View ArticleBy: Tam
The GPS satellites do not track the receivers. The receivers we use receive a timing signal from several of the satellites and triangulates a position from the time delays. Our GPS devices now have...
View ArticleBy: wizardpc
Some clarity is in order: 1. GPS works, as stated, by receiving timed signals ONLY. That data is not sent back to th satellites. The devices do not emit any sort of beacon that can be picked up. Simply...
View ArticleBy: straightarrow
I would never own a vehicle with OnStar. Whether or not the owner activates he can be listened to and tracked and it has been done. Don’t tell me about all the technical reasons it can’t be done, it...
View ArticleBy: Xrlq
I don’t think that the transmitter in your phone has the wheaties to put out a radio signal that could be triangulated on from satellites 20,200km away. A satellite phone probably does, but there’d be...
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