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There is a lot of ethical uses of such trackers (e.g. a company tracking its own vehicles, shipping container tracking, etc.). We can't assume the developer of
by vonuebelgarten 12y ago
There is a lot of ethical uses of such trackers (e.g. a company tracking its own vehicles, shipping container tracking, etc.). We can't assume the developer of the original board knowingly designed it for evil purposes.
Full disclosure: I design smart-grid and telemetry applications, including a GSM + GPS device (GPS was initially used for getting accurate timestamps, but we also added positioning registers, which made the field maintenance people very happy).
- krenoten 12y agoInteresting, I always thought that google using it for TrueTime was a strange use-case, but I guess it was the original use-case!
- vonuebelgarten 12y agoThat's a pretty common application when you need to synchronize clocks to microsecond accuracy or to a second accuracy but have neither a stable network connection nor a time broadcast (like the German DCF77). It's also used to replace Cesium clocks in cell base stations or for the precision timing protocol (IEEE 1588) for PWE3 networks. Iep, is there a lot of systems depending on GPS and a major system failure will bring us some chaos.
- mseebach 12y ago> There is a lot of ethical uses of such trackers (e.g. a company tracking its own vehicles, shipping container tracking, etc.) Never mind court-warranted law enforcement tracking of legitimate suspects under investigation.