{"id":68,"date":"2014-05-04T05:24:54","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T11:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jayctheriot.com\/bbs\/?p=68"},"modified":"2014-05-04T05:24:54","modified_gmt":"2014-05-04T11:24:54","slug":"gps-home-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/?p=68","title":{"rendered":"GPS &#8220;Home&#8221; Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes consumer products have convenience features that greatly degrade our personal security.\u00a0 The &#8220;Home&#8221; feature of GPSs do exactly that.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine this scenario:<\/p>\n<p>Your car is stolen.\u00a0 You have a GPS.\u00a0 You are now stranded, filling out paperwork with the police.\u00a0 Meanwhile, the thief who stole your car turns on your GPS, hits destination &#8220;Home&#8221; and breaks into your home, robbing you blind.\u00a0 Time is taken with impunity, because he knows that you are with the police, doing paperwork.<\/p>\n<p>Easy fix:<\/p>\n<p>Set the &#8220;Home&#8221; setting on your GPS to an intersection near your home, or some other point-of-interest near your neighbour hood.\u00a0 Even better, don&#8217;t use it at all.<\/p>\n<p>I like GPSs.\u00a0 I spend a lot of time on the road, and the ticker lets me know how much time I have before I get to the place I love most.\u00a0 My GPS is set to a nearby intersection.\u00a0 The time is about 30 seconds off, but I know that if it gets stolen, my family will be safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes consumer products have convenience features that greatly degrade our personal security.\u00a0 The &#8220;Home&#8221; feature of GPSs do exactly that. Imagine this scenario: Your car is stolen.\u00a0 You have a GPS.\u00a0 You are now stranded, filling out paperwork with the police.\u00a0 Meanwhile, the thief who stole your car turns on your GPS, hits destination &#8220;Home&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}