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I would have thought the criminals would have been on high alert for airtags and other devices of the kind. In my mind, I imagine super thieves putting the car
by WhackyIdeas 3y ago
I would have thought the criminals would have been on high alert for airtags and other devices of the kind. In my mind, I imagine super thieves putting the car in a converted faraday shipping container, using a tool like a HackRF One to detect bugs etc.
- TehCorwiz 3y agoI'm assuming that international law doesn't give the aggrieved enough chance of success at a low enough expense to make it practical to pursue legal options. There's no reasonable way to act on this information unless you're John Wick. Once the car is in Dubai it's going to leave the thieves' hands quickly. So, why would they bother scanning for bugs that lead to nothing?
- andy99 3y agoIf this is the case I'm thinking of, they basically tracked it on the train to the port in Montreal. They knew where is was the whole time and police just didn't care. So it's not international law, it's disinterested local authorities.
- morkalork 3y agoCoke comes in and cars go out and it'd been like that for ages. The port is run by the local mob in a way that makes season 2 of The Wire look like a documentary.
- WhackyIdeas 3y agoOh God, what a fantastic show.
- andy99 3y agoWhy would they bother when then can just openly ship it by rail and sea? It's clear from these stories the authorities don't care about retrieving the vehicles. Until they do, stealing them is an easy, low risk crime.
- mardifoufs 3y agoIs it even possible for law enforcement to retrieve them once they get shipped in a country like the UAE?
- colechristensen 3y agoThe other day a dude walked up to the cold case in line at a coffee shop, grabbed a coke, and left. This is the level of most crime. There's no mastermind or great tools, just straightforward actions. The fact that this guy's car was tracked didn't really help him so much did it (police are sadly incompetent)
- ronsor 3y agoThe vast majority of criminals are not that clever or even particularly smart—not even the high-profile ones. Look at the fall of Sam Bankman-Fried for an example.
- WhackyIdeas 3y agoAll this surveillance, with virtually every car just a bug itself and still the criminals can just easily do these thefts without any effort being made to catch them - what the hell is the point of surveillance society when can’t even be bothered to use it for its limited benefits like returning the car to it’s owner.
- michaelt 3y ago> using a tool like a HackRF One to detect bugs etc The state of the art in vehicle theft is actually far simpler. They steal the car/bicycle/skid-steer and just leave it in a back alley a few miles away for a week or so, and see if the owner turns up to retrieve it.
- Thaxll 3y agoThe video is a proof that you don't need to do any of that, in reality what they do is that they park your car couple of days on a parking lot to see if the car has some location device, if no one comes they move the car.