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Anecdote from back in the day (well late 90's). A friend I had at school invited me to hang out with one of his "hacker" friends. This guy was into carding and other crap. Anyway, he lived in a small town. So somehow he managed to build small transmitters and attached them to bottom of a few local police cruisers. When those would get closer he got a blinking light on his receiver. Don't know how true it was, I was pretty young, but thought it an interesting idea.

Courts in many instances agreed that one doesn't need an warrant since the movement of one's car is public. Can the same logic be applied to police cars then?

Some countries don't let you advertise the location of speed traps. So radio stations there would for example warn drivers of cars with flashing lights and people in uniform blasting beams of microwave energy at oncoming cars.




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