<div dir="auto"><div>The good news is they can only track for about 5 years. Then the batteries run down.</div><div><br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">-- <br>James P. Kinney III<br><i><i><i><i><br></i></i></i></i>Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you
gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
own tail. It won't fatten the dog.<br>
- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain<br><i><i><i><i><br><a href="http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/</a><br></i></i></i></i></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 27, 2026, 5:36 PM Bob Toxen via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Read the TechNews Online at: <a href="http://technews.acm.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">http://technews.acm.org</a><br>
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Car's Tire Pressure System Poses Hacking Threat<br>
CNET (02/25/26) Aaron Pruner<br>
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Cars made after 2008, which under the U.S. TREAD Act of 2000 must be<br>
equipped with tire pressure monitoring systems (TPMS) for road safety,<br>
may expose drivers to covert tracking, warn researchers from Spain's<br>
IMDEA Networks Institute. The researchers collected millions of wireless<br>
signals from thousands of vehicles and found that TPMS sensors broadcast<br>
unencrypted unique identifiers that can be picked up from more than 50m<br>
away using inexpensive radio receivers.<br>
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