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Track my movements up to 60 feet away?

When I take my "cloak of invisibility" off, people can track my motions with their eyes up to 400 or 500 feet and further with binoculars.

If people want to follow me from 60 feet away while I jog, they need a life.

Jim
 
Well, since I don't see it here, I'm going to make an "ooh, ooh, scary" post. I agree that the Nike+iPod bit is just plain lame, but the privacy concerns of this sort of thing are very real, and not to be scoffed at.

Seen Minority Report, anybody? I'm not worried about the many stalkers that want to hunt me down and kill me. I'm afraid of this sort of personally identifiable information being used to turn me into a marketing statistic. I don't even have a Sears card because I don't like being tracked. And, before I start getting any tinfoil hat comments... well, okay, go for it.
 
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrgh!

Researchers at the University of Duh attached Apple-Nike devices on many squirrels of the campus.

Within 4 hours, all the squirrels disappeared.

Scientists of the University stated that they are plotting against us.

Mr. Soone Gaytz, Professor at the University claims - Clearly, they are going to take over humanity corrupting our own ipods, we are going to be strangled by the cord of the headphones. We are going to be under their control... mind control that is. They are going to force us to listen to the chipmunks.

Researchers of the university warn that do not be close to a squirrel in a range of 60 feet. It could have a deadly mind control device!

The most important line of this report is that:
Apple and Nike officials were unavailable for comments

Sansa Creaf, University of Duh reporting from Redmond...
 
So.... what you're saying is that when I steal someone's Nike's, if I can get a 60' lead when I'm being chased, I'm in the clear?

*off to perform an experiment*
 
Not only...

...can Big Brothr track where you are but how unfit you are as well!

Or, if you get lost you can get one of the people 60 feet or so away from you tracking you to tell you where you are.

And we have all seen those CSI-type shows where they triangulate your location by the signal of your mobile phone. Thank god more people have Nike+ kits than cell phones or we would all be in danger...

Oh wait...
 
Are they serious? I can track someone from as far as 600 feet away, just using my eyes.

It would be impossible to spy one someone if you had to remain within 60 feet of them at all times...

bah, I can track you all simultaneously and I don't need any silly RF devices to do it.

Right now you're sitting in front of your computer. Scary, eh?
 
I saw a follow-up report on this (on CNN I believe). What the original report doesn't tell you is that the person doing the tracking requires some sort of device ID or code from the iPod before implementing the tracking process. The author of the report mentioned that you can only get this by opening up the iPod. If this is correct, it doesn't seem that people can track you without having physical access to your iPod first.

On a positive note, this might be a good way to track your kids on family outings.
 
How to track Using iPod +Nike,

1st, go to the gym,then find out who's not good at running,
2nd, make sure that the person you plan to follow is reallly not good at running, or else you'll tire easily trying to maintain the 60 feet distance.:confused:
 
I've got mixed feelings on this. I realize that being able to be tracked from 60' away is clearly not exciting, but people should be made aware of this none-the-less and have the right to make an informed decision about potentially being tracked. Furthermore, is it possible to create a directional antenna or something to expand that range (I'm ignorant to the technologies involved) or will that technology ever become possible? If so, this could be the beginning of something bigger than what it is now. Perhaps pressuring nike and others to encrypt this kind of stuff now is a better idea, before it becomes a bigger issue later. Also, isn't it possible to make a bomb that will detonate when it detects a specific signal? If so, this could be very problematic for certain people. Just a thought.
 
Who cares? 60 feet range!

Among the silliest concerns I've read about recently. You can be tracked by your shoes up to 60 feet away! (oh, and that is unobstructed feet). S**T, from 60 feet, I think I can track you using my eyes. And the trackee can see the observer.

More manufactured paranoia.

Get a life, people.
 
Interesting story.

I can't believe that a group spent that much time investigating nike+ kits, after they realized the range is only 60 feet Maximum!

Why not target GPS enabled phones with a much farther range ? Much more worth the time, especially considering the amount of people that have such phones, over iPod kits!
 
I saw this story this morning, and thought it was one of the stupidest reports I've seen in awhile. You could either track some random person who has the device for a few feet, or blow $20 to 'plant' one in someone's backpack. Never mind the rest of the money you'd be spending just to have devices nearby to pick up the signal. This story ranks up next to 'German police battle giant parrot' in importance. :rolleyes:

Edit: 100th post! I'm a regular now!
 
So you could theoretically build and conceal tracking stations all over the place and thus monitor these short-range transmissions. Wouldn't it be simpler just to hide cameras all over?

Or, I don't know, use about a hundred other methods that have been used throughout the last century to watch someone.

There are numerous, and much more useful devices and means to watch where someone goes. Getting jogging information from the Nike+ just doesn't seem like much of a threat, compared to cell phones, or the average stalker.

By the way, this isn't a vulnerability, the device is doing exactly what we want it to do.

Also, isn't it possible to make a bomb that will detonate when it detects a specific signal? If so, this could be very problematic for certain people. Just a thought.

Like a slamhound from Count Zero?
 
What bothers me about this is that we now seem to have a huge number of professors and other self promoting (people) running around scaring people for what appears to be a number of odd reasons. This is about as real of a concern as the people making all the noise about global warming. Sure there are issues here, but it really looks like the efforts of people associated with theses scares are more about self promotion and self enrichment than anything else.

Not a nice thing to say, but when you understand that some of the people involved in the global warming debate where a few years ago involved in the coming ice age debate you have to wonder about sincerity. I mean really what is the big deal here that a public announcement was need. Was it an issue of radio frequencies being trackable, something we have all known about for years, or the fact that the transmission was coded for identification?

The point is if you have anything on you body that transmits radio energy you can be tracked. No surprise there. I'm also suspicious about their software, the unwillingness to publish said software may indicate that this is a elaborate dog and pony show.

In the end I just think it is sad that people in the higher education systems of this country have nothing better to do than to scare people. You would think with all the long term economic issues we have they could find a little time to develop technologies that will push the economy forward. Instead energy is focused on items that go down the drain in a few months time.

Dave
 
Paranoia

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.

Seriously, folks... There are far worse privacy problems, such as RFID tags in passports. Researchers in the UK have already "cracked" that security. RFID tags on credit cards have also been "cloned".

Who cares if someone gets your unique ID of your Nike shoe transmitter? It's a useless number. If someone gets your passport or credit card information, that's far worse.

-Aaron-
 
Another report proves that you can often tell where a person is from even further away just by looking at them!

Seriously, if you're within 60 feet of someone don't you *already* know where they are? There's all kinds of ways to be 'seen' or 'tracked' -- how big a deal is this? If we're worried about someone setting up detectors every 50 feet don't we have bigger things to worry about? All these years they could have been setting up cameras or microphones or... ...maybe they already have!
 
60 Feet !

Not what I call an effective tracking device. If they were talking 1/2 mile than ok, but 60 feet away running, they could hear me gasping for breath better.. lol
 
Only one problem with their people tracker system: a person can only be tracked while they are wearing their Nike running shoes. I run and I, like many other runners, only wear my running shoes while I run. They live in the closet otherwise.

To reiterate what others have said, they are making nothing into something to gain attention.
 
What bothers me about this is that we now seem to have a huge number of professors and other self promoting (people) running around scaring people for what appears to be a number of odd reasons. This is about as real of a concern as the people making all the noise about global warming. Sure there are issues here, but it really looks like the efforts of people associated with theses scares are more about self promotion and self enrichment than anything else.

Not a nice thing to say, but when you understand that some of the people involved in the global warming debate where a few years ago involved in the coming ice age debate you have to wonder about sincerity. I mean really what is the big deal here that a public announcement was need. Was it an issue of radio frequencies being trackable, something we have all known about for years, or the fact that the transmission was coded for identification?

The point is if you have anything on you body that transmits radio energy you can be tracked. No surprise there. I'm also suspicious about their software, the unwillingness to publish said software may indicate that this is a elaborate dog and pony show.

In the end I just think it is sad that people in the higher education systems of this country have nothing better to do than to scare people. You would think with all the long term economic issues we have they could find a little time to develop technologies that will push the economy forward. Instead energy is focused on items that go down the drain in a few months time.

Dave

Someone's been reading Crichton's State of Fear.
 
This is about as real of a concern as the people making all the noise about global warming. Sure there are issues here, but it really looks like the efforts of people associated with theses scares are more about self promotion and self enrichment than anything else.

Seriously? I think most scientists agree that global warming is a very real phenomena. Your comments sound kind of ignorant in light of that, especially since you bring up a highly politicized topic in this context. Any responses are bound to sound off topic/political/inappropriate. Perhaps you should spread your counterfactual views in the political forum where they belong.
 
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