I understand the paranoid feeling.  I try to secure every possible avenue
someone would try to get to me.

However going as far as being affraid of the on star this is little too much
for me.

If you are this paranoid you better not own a cell phone.  Someone may
triangulate the signal and track your position at all times.

We should not allow to tag people with tracking devices but cars....

Or... maybe you right and we should get rid of our pagers, cell phones,
computerized
cars.  Just buy and old truck '79 or earlier, call it a beast and live in a
cabin
far away from any civilazation....

Ok, never mind! I like my fast internet and living the fast life where
technology
is moving faster then we can read about it.

The Wolf

Jim W wrote:

> Just after reading the posts about those two machines being rooted, I saw an
> ad for On-Star.  Perhaps because I was thinking about the cracks, my mind
> wandered like this...first they put devices in cars so that they can 'help'
> you, even going so far as to know who you are and where you are... next they
> offer to embed these 'devices' in your child, just so that you can be able
> to locate the child should he/she become lost/kidnapped...eventually we live
> in a country where Big Brother knows where every one of its subjects is at
> all times.
>
> The fact that this device is available from a corporation (GM, to be
> specific) worries me even more.  This is supposed to be a government of, by,
> and for the people but it is looking an awful lot like a government of, by,
> and for the corporations lately.
>
> Jim
> ICQ9460467
> the future is now
>
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