One step closer to requiring smart phones to track an individual for their alibi

Standard in 2008 If the auto manufacturer offered OnStar or Sirius, earlier.

I wish it wasn’t true, and I definitely feel like a nut job when I bring it up.

GM’s OnStar, I believe, was just EDS’s tech at the time of their rollout in '96ish

Originally the D.A.I.R. project (Driver Aid, Information and Routing) was conceptualized in the 60’s. It wasn’t until Hughes assisted EDS in the 90’s that they were able to create a beacon that could communicate via Satellite and Cellular.

I myself didn’t realize this was a thing until about a decade ago when I was trying to create an automation for my lights to turn on when I pulled into my driveway. I kept getting a ping about 5min after my phone connected to my WiFi. The MAC matched nothing I had in the house, I just blew it off.

When an associate stopped by to work on a HoneyPot project we started seeing a bunch of random MACs attempt to connect to the open wifi, we wrote that noise off as people walking by my house and their cell phones were just trying to connect. It wasn’t until the garbage man showed up and stopped to talk to me that I was able to find his truck listed with an address connected to the open wifi, sent a few packets, then left. We made the correlation that the MAC’s could be from cars so we started researching the manufacturer of those device MAC’s

That pretty much opened a weird rabbit hole leading us to find out that almost every car has been tracked since the mid-90’s.

Joking aside, I would move to Amish country if it weren’t for the whiskey and bitches. But in all honesty; my family lives a much more comfortable life than I ever imagined I would with working in the IT field.

GPS had been implemented in vehicles in the 90’s. Most people are now finding out about the modems.

I don’t think enough people have mentioned that Auto manufacturers have been able to locate vehicles since the 90’s.

thank you for the visual representation ☺️

Brother your cup’eth overflow’eth

CoPilot with Gemini plugin did.

I wasn’t raised with cable so TV isn’t my thing, but I was fortunate enough to live by a $1 theatre and watch all kind of movies in a theatre, I’m just gonna go back to that. Once I find a dollar theatre.

I miss the old Netflix, where discs would come to my house.

I’ve been trying to wrap my head around a decentralized git so I can release a pokemon rom hack.

First they came for our Lead based fuel Then they came for our Lead based paint They’re not touching Lead based ammo, because Lead based ammo isn’t killing people. People are killing people.

Meat, nobody tastes good anymore.

Linus gets that this is a joke, just like Windows.

Best part. Once it returned errors… I almost cried.

Flagfox is actually really helpful to me. So many websites have authentication in different countries, it gives me a heads up when unblocking pages on a firewall.

I had always been a fan of smoking and chewing. One day, a friend showed me his Strawberry Shortcake vape. I never looked back. Lemon Pound cake vape for days.

Eventually I got into making large bottles of ejuice. Then I just gradually lowered the quantity of nicotine.

Once I hit that 0 nicotine, I just worked on decreasing my frequency. Then one day I bronchitis and I was like: okay I’m done.

I’m gonna go with the Romans?

Punky Eufster