Nike+iPod Stalking Just Got Easier

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Category: 3rd Party Hardware
Link: Nike+iPod Stalking Just Got Easier (http://www.macbytes.com/link.php?sid=20070227085858)
Description:: The clever folks over at Spark Fun Electronics have developed a small interface that connects the Nike+iPod receiver to your computer’s USB port. They claim this allows users to detect any Nike+iPod sensors that are within range. This idea was first discussed in the recent University of Washington research warning of Nike+iPod security concerns (you may have seen one of the 1,330,000 alarming news stories about it).

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[twoodcc]

seems interesting. i don't see how i could benefit from having one of these, but still cool nonetheless

[thewaydownmusic]

seems interesting. i don't see how i could benefit from having one of these, but still cool nonetheless

Yea... exactly. Nothing beats good-ol-fasioned stalking.

I'm so sick of this latest wave of digistalkers... these new gadgets practically stalk for you! Where is the fun in that? Yea, well.. as someone may be stalking you with a laptop/Nike rig... I'll be stalking the person sneaking around with a laptop. Haha.

[twoodcc]

Yea... exactly. Nothing beats good-ol-fasioned stalking.

I'm so sick of this latest wave of digistalkers... these new gadgets practically stalk for you! Where is the fun in that? Yea, well.. as someone may be stalking you with a laptop/Nike rig... I'll be stalking the person sneaking around with a laptop. Haha.

haha, yeah that's one way to look at it :p

[nagromme]

This isn't funny--it's scary.

All someone needs to do is put a MacBook with one of these sensors every 10 feet throughout your city, and conceal them from theft, and they can track you if you use a Nike transmittter and they know the number of your transmitted as opposed to someone else's!

Time was, you'd have to conceal cameras--and sure, they could track anyone, not just Nike users, and yes they could see WHAT you were doing. But now you don't even need a camera! You only need a MacBook!

Big Brother is here.

[Flowbee]

Big Brother is here.

I very rarely post a smiley as a reply, but what else is there to say but... :D

[spork183]

This isn't funny--it's scary.

All someone needs to do is put a MacBook with one of these sensors every 10 feet throughout your city, and conceal them from theft, and they can track you if you use a Nike transmittter and they know the number of your transmitted as opposed to someone else's!


Big Brother is here.

Time was a Nike transmitter was a part of the Nike missile sites, but my age is showing... I think this is a very real threat. Where is Ralph Nader when our liberties and personal safety are threatened. I think a ban on public use of MacBooks, including concealed MacBooks, should be more than enough to foil the miscreants amongst us.

Actually, this has a very sensible use. If you can't find your running shoes, you simply use the MacBook to locate them. Down the road, the MacBook can take the shoes for a run, freeing you for important duties like posting on MacRumor forums...

[Cybix]

talk about paranoid, who honestly gives a toss?

just go run.

if some pleb is sitting at a bus stop with a macbook and is tracking your fitness, then yippy for them. Talk about pathetic.

OH NO, I'm being tracked!

Hello.... got a cell phone? you've been getting tracked for over a decade already. deal with it.

[p0intblank]

talk about paranoid, who honestly gives a toss?

just go run.

if some pleb is sitting at a bus stop with a macbook and is tracking your fitness, then yippy for them. Talk about pathetic.

OH NO, I'm being tracked!

Hello.... got a cell phone? you've been getting tracked for over a decade already. deal with it.

I agree. People are being overly paranoid.