RISKS-LIST: Risks-Forum Digest Saturday 31 March 2007 Volume 24 : Issue 61
ACM FORUM ON RISKS TO THE PUBLIC IN COMPUTERS AND RELATED SYSTEMS (comp.risks)
Peter G. Neumann, moderator, chmn ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:09:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email protected] (Mark Brader)
Subject: Satellite Navigation may be Hazardous to your Life Of Crime
According to police, a man and a woman stole a Toyota Highlander SUV in the Toronto suburb of Newmarket, planning to drive it to Alberta, but relied on the GPS dashboard device for directions for the trip. It duly gave them the shortest route to Alberta – one passing south of Lake
Huron. So when the license number was routinely checked at the US border, the couple were arrested. Allegedly they were on the approach to the international bridge at Sarnia before they realized it was too late to turn back. A total of four people are now charged in a series of 70
vehicle break-ins in Newmarket in February and March.
(From today's Toronto Star: http://www.thestar.com/printArticle/193790)
Mark Brader, Toronto, [email protected]
