#gps
Russians plunder $5M #farm vehicles from #Ukraine -- to find they've been remotely disabled
Some of the machinery was taken to a nearby village, but some of it embarked on a long overland journey to #Chechnya more than 700 miles away. The sophistication of the #machinery, which are equipped with #GPS, meant that its travel could be tracked. It was last tracked to the village of Zakhan Yurt in Chechnya.
The equipment ferried to Chechnya, which included combine harvesters -- can also be controlled remotely. "When the invaders drove the stolen harvesters to Chechnya, they realized that they could not even turn them on, because the harvesters were locked remotely," the contact said.
The #equipment now appears to be languishing at a farm near Grozny. But the contact said that "it seems that the hijackers have found consultants in Russia who are trying to bypass the #protection."
You may think that in this case it hits the right ones, but think about the following scenario: the world is facing a #starvation catastrophe and is in urgent need of tractors for #food production. But the farmer can't pay his debts at the moment. Then the tractors are deactivated regardless of whether people starve to death. Damn #DRM and damn #capitalism - why do people buy such #bullshit #technology?
#news #software #fail #military #crime #agriculture #problem #war #Russia
Virginia Police Routinely Use Secret GPS Pings To Track People's Cell Phones | Slashdot
The nonprofit online news site Virginia Mercury investigated their state police departments' "real-time location warrants," which are "addressed to telephone companies, ordering them to regularly ping a customers' phone for its GPS location and share the results with police."
I can't view the original source of the story as I'm within Europe's GDPR zone, so I'm sharing the Slashdot summary so that everyone knows about the situation.
#technology #tech #security #privacy #LawEnforcement #police #GPS
Looted #Apple products: #Ukraine tracks Russian soldiers
source: https://nitter.42l.fr/franakviacorka/status/1511297092836278283
Ukrainians are locating their devices on the territory of the #Homiel region, #Belarus, where part of the Russian #army retreated.
#war #tracking #surveillance #iphone #gps #russia #crime #news #technology #Theft
Что будет, если Россию отключат от GPS? (спойлер: ничего страшного)
Отключение России от GPS не представляет особой угрозы для нашей страны и, в частности, для транспортной телематики, рассказал «Автопарку» заместитель генерального директора Omnicomm Максим Павлухин. По словам эксперта, помимо GPS и ГЛОНАCС есть и другие спутниковые навигационные системы, которые можно использовать например: китайская Beidou (49 спутников) и европейская Galileo (26). Европейская изначально поддерживается в большинстве […]
#новостикомтранса #gps #omnicomm #глонасс #телематика #lang_ru #5koleso #авто #5колесо
GPS-cluded
US may disconnect Russia from GPS, space chief warns:
Russians shouldn’t be too nervous if this happens as they have their own GLONASS system, the head of Roscosmos has pointed out
#Shaban1443 #geospatial #gps #WorldWarZ #Ukraine #Russia #technology #navigation
● NEWS ● #PrivacyInternational #CivilRights ☞ Electronic monitoring using #GPS tags: a tech primer https://privacyinternational.org/explainer/4796/electronic-monitoring-using-gps-tags-tech-primer
" #patent generally relates to a device for initiating and handling an emergency IP request using an IP enabled device having #GPS capability" https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2021/11/12/k-mizra-patent-challenged #swpats
#gps can 'spy' on you if the receiver device deposits and then passes (back) the data through brokers and resellers, which we now know does happen sometimes http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-111121.html#tNov%2011%2015:44:24
