http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/09/...tside-of-tolls/

If you have EZ Pass, this is something you should know....

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A New Jersey man modified his E-Z Pass — a device used to automatically pay highway tolls — to alert him every time his it was being connected to by an outside source. He found it wasn’t just when passing through tolls that his device was being read.

The man going by the name Puking Monkey rigged a cow-shaped device to light up and make “moo” sound every time the E-Z Pass’ RFID card was read. The man recorded video of the device being read in non-toll areas and presented his findings at the hacking conference Defcon, which took place in August.

Here’s a look at how the device works, signaling the E-Z Pass was being read in a toll-less area in the Lincoln tunnel, which connects New York City and New Jersey:

“Anonymously driving your own vehicle is becoming unattainable with the proliferation of automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) now coming into wide-spread use. Combined with always-on electronic toll tags, smart phone traffic apps and even plain cell phones are adding to this problem. There is little public disclosure of this tracking and little legislation limiting the length of time data is retained, even if it is not involved in any investigation,” Puking Monkey’s abstract for his presentation at Defcon said.

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But in the words of great Civil Libertarians everywhere,

IF'N YOU AIN'T DOIN' ANYTHIN' WRONG, YOU'S HAVE NUTHIN' TO FEARS

Quote: Rufus T Firefly wrote in post #2

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But in the words of great Civil Libertarians everywhere,

IF'N YOU AIN'T DOIN' ANYTHIN' WRONG, YOU'S HAVE NUTHIN' TO FEARS

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