Alright, who's the dim-bulb who thought that attaching an electronic device to a criminal hacker would remain uncracked?
Kiwi hacker 'menace' pops home detention tracker cuffs
Christchurch bus hacker William Turner has demonstrated how to trick home detention ankle monitors used in New Zealand. The monitor hack meant the location of criminals could be falsely reported to contractor G4S, triggering alarms. The feat was a tool of mischief makers and blackmailers, Turner said, but importantly could …
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Friday 19th December 2014 12:40 GMT Sir Sham Cad
Re: err
And now he's guaranteed that, should he ever be convicted of anything, he'll never be given ankle monitors.
Seriously, guys like this should be on the books of .gov agencies, especially Law Enforcement, to test these systems to failure before they're used in anger to monitor the whereabouts of potentially dangerous crims on licence.
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Friday 19th December 2014 07:41 GMT Cliff
Systems work on bluster
Having seen the poor quality of most government outsource companies, I would be far from surprised if the devices and the monitoring thereof went anywhere beyond the bare minimum. Instead, there will be proprietary code, homespun standards, black boxes with blinkenlights, smoke, mirrors, handwaving, and a sharp salesman at city hall offering free conferences in Bermuda for every 10 systems bought/leased
They should be fun to hack.