From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 05:19:09 +0800
To: Timothy Lawrence Nali <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Police prepare stunning end for high-speed car chases
Message-ID: <199608101912.MAA05720@mail.pacifier.com>
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At 01:30 PM 8/10/96 -0400, Timothy Lawrence Nali wrote:
>Excerpts from internet.cypherpunks: 10-Aug-96 Police prepare stunning
>end.. by Gary Howland@systemics.c 
>
>[stuff about police wanting a new "stun gun" that can disable a car's
>electrical systems deleted] 

>
>1) You just noticed that your car is stolen.
>2) You call the XXX security company to report your car as stolen.
>3) The company beams down a signal by satellite/pager/cell-phone/etc. 
>   telling the car's security systems that the car has been stolen.
>4) This signal instructs the car to disable itself (shut down the engine, 
>   lock the doors, etc.) and, via a GPS module and built-in 
>   cell-phone/pager/etc., transmit it's coordinates.
>5) The car is recovered and everyone is happy.
>
>Of course, once such systems are widespread, the XXX security company
>will be "encouraged" to cooperate with local police and send that
>shut-down signal to any car the police tell them to.

"Car-Key-Escrow"?


Jim Bell
jimbell@pacifier.com