Mod parent up: the story here is the extreme miniaturization taking place, where separate units or even a rack full of equipment can now be made into a single chip the size of an existing GPS/GLONASS receiver by itself!

But wait, there's more: remember the the atomic clock on a chip that DARPA wanted? I think we now know what they really wanted it for, as you can't implement this kind of indoor inertial navigation (with errors in inches/centimeters) without one.

Oh, and for you tin-hat folks, here's another: with this, you can now have your movements tracked INDOORS as well as out simply by sewing one of these in as a fake button, between seams, etcetera: this is the final ingredient in 100% ubiquious surveillance that until now has not been possible. Are you scared yet?

This is a complete quote from the relevant section of http://stallman.org/rms-lifestyle.html

As a ham radio operator myself, reading some on GSM and other standards, a little on OpenBTS, and what the military (especially black ops like CIA) have done in these kinds of situations, I think I can reliably state this:

1. *ANY* radio transmission can be tracked to its source. If your phone on, it can be triangulated automagically by the base stations around you, although modern E-911 compliant ones also assist in this. In addition, the TIMING can be used to trace your distance from even one cell site (think latency/ping), so you can get a radius (similar to GPS, if I've read right).

2. The only way not to be tracked in this fashion is to turn off all radio transmitters on your person or nearby that can be associated with you. This includes wifi and can even include bluetooth in radio-quiet locations. Bear in mind you can fingerprint individual transmitters, to the point there are commercial transmitter fingerprint readers readily available: these are usually used when dealing with jammers, but you can track anyone with these.

3. None of this precludes them putting an active tracking device in your phone (I've read the battery can be replaced with a smaller one with a device included), your car, jacket, etc. These were being done during the cold war; the only difference is that you can buy them online now! And don't even get started on passive methods like lasers-on-the-windows, Van Eck, etc.

4. Jamming just keeps you from making calls: your radio can't hear the base. The base can still hear you just fine (under normal circumstances).

The bottom line: you'd have to do like RMS does and not carry one...though I wonder how useful that is since his entourage probably are loaded with them!

Unlike most of you, it would seem, I did RTFS, along with the links from it to more stories: it seems that Massachussetts is just one state/location that is doing this sort of thing, along with NY, TX, UT, and Chicago.

Bottom line: they tax software, software-as-a-service (SaaS, a new acronym to me), internet access, hosting, etc; this is just another item to add to the list, in their eyes. At first, I was going to say, "Another reason to use Free Software," but then the enormity of the truth crushed me back into depression: another thing I can't un-see (or un-learn, more like it).

They definitely won't get any now, and I'll be switching to BB (which I didn't know existed before). On top of that, you're GPL and support Linux: woohoo!

One problem I see, though: the web page for Webapp2.ini states explicitly they support you AND that they are NOT part of Piriform, so I don't see how Piriform could have a leg to stand on.

However, another problem is that I can't find anywhere that states what license webapp2.ini is distributed under.

The previous owner of the motel I work at got ripped off by a company that installed one of these 16 camera systems. The cameras never work right, and I knew something funny was was with the DVR when it said that you need IE and Active-X to watch it!

My current boss occasionally asks me to connect it up like the system his uncle (his boss) has, and I keep blowing him off, not because it would be hard, but because I'd both have to open a hole in the firewall to the outside world AND it would be fully accessible to anyone on the motel wi-fi system.

Erm...full disclosure, I worked in casinos, and also don't feel like being constantly under surveillance, either...