Spotted on
Laurent Haug's Blog, an interesting article I missed in October, from the
The New York Times on tattle-tale technology.
Brian Aladesuyi, 17, received a new Jeep in exchange for a promise: he would never drive it outside his hometown. His father, chief executive of the security firm EarthSearch Communications, used Earth Search s Web site to map Kennesaws boundaries into the Jeeps onboard computer, surrounding the entire city with an electronic fence.
But when his father took a business trip to Brazil, Brian decided to try his luck. Brian drove to Marietta, a neighboring town. Seconds after Brian breached the invisible wall, his father received a text message on his mobile phone [and] sent a message commanding the computer to disable the Jeeps engine.
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