Caught Spying on Student, FBI Demands GPS Tracker Back

[Bill Mattocks]

Oh, bummer...some nice photos if you click down the the Reddit post, though. I'm making copies before the feds force them to be taken down.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/10/fbi-tracking-device/

A California student got a visit from the FBI this week after he found a secret GPS tracking device on his car, and a friend posted photos of it online. The post prompted wide speculation about whether the device was real, whether the young Arab-American was being targeted in a terrorism investigation and what the authorities would do.
It took just 48 hours to find out: The device was real, the student was being secretly tracked and the FBI wanted their expensive device back, the student told Wired.com in an interview Wednesday.
The answer came when half-a-dozen FBI agents and police officers appeared at Yasir Afifi’s apartment complex in Santa Clara, California, on Tuesday demanding he return the device.


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[Bob Hubbard]

I would have smashed it into bits and handed them a bag of parts. If its on my car, it must be mine, so they can piss off.

 

[jks9199]

I know a couple detectives who had to explain the loss of a very expensive brand new GPS tracker... Best guess is it got run over by a mower or lost in the dumpsters. Target found it, didn't know what it was, and disposed of it... It happens.

 

[CanuckMA]

That is one big-*** device. Where did they get that? 1969?