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thermidorthelobster:
BBC News are reporting ways to keep your satnav safe.  (Unusually, they don't find a way to link it to evil 4x4s, as they do with most other negative stories involving transport.)

But I'm a bit surprised by this sentence:


--- Quote ---Detective Sergeant John Agar from the force's vehicle crime team explains: "Thieves at the moment are using the latest technology, which can track a sat nav system even when it isn't on display in a vehicle.

"So, for example, if your car is parked up and the sat nav is locked in the glove compartment, thieves can still tell it is there and will break into your car for it."
--- End quote ---

You what now?  How do they do that then?  Sounds suspiciously to me like somebody's commented that thieves look for the suction cup patterns on the windscreen, and somebody else has totally misinterpreted it as the thieves having some magical high-tech way of scanning the interior of your car.  "The latest technology" is a humungously vague phrase, rather reminiscent of "for tax reasons".

Or does yer modern lowlife scum walk around with tens of thousands of pounds worth of x-ray detector, in the hope of nicking a £200 satnav?

 :?

Thrasher:
It's because the "unwashed" think a sat-nav is something that tells people where it is, not something that *knows* where it is using triangulation of satellites......

landyman37:

--- Quote ---You what now?  How do they do that then?  Sounds suspiciously to me like somebody's commented that thieves look for the suction cup patterns on the windscreen, and somebody else has totally misinterpreted it as the thieves having some magical high-tech way of scanning the interior of your car.  "The latest technology" is a humungously vague phrase, rather reminiscent of "for tax reasons".

Or does yer modern lowlife scum walk around with tens of thousands of pounds worth of x-ray detector, in the hope of nicking a £200 satnav?

 :?
--- End quote ---


Is the blooth tooth still active when the thing switched off?

mmgemini:
I watched that report this morning.
I too wondered how they knew that you had left the sat nav in the car apart from either the marks or the mount.

Magnum335:
Dont use bluetooth. Its evil. sheeeer evil i say. Makes you prone to viruses and everything. Easiest way round it is to take your nav and valuables out with you.

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