Illegal 'Eating While Driving' police checkpoints begin
Kentucky State Police are starting a new “safe driving program” which will target innocent drivers.
Operation R.A.I.D (Remove aggressive, Impaired. and Distracted Drivers from Kentucky Roadways) will remain active for one year.
Law enforcement will be more visible and the number of checkpoints will increase.
This program will allow each post to identify target areas.
"Not only just texting, but any distracting drivers. This includes eating and drinking. We are going to be out looking for those people. You're going to see a major force when it comes time for St. Patrick's Day weekend and holiday weekends," said Trooper Biven, Kentucky State Police.
There is no state law that bans eating while driving, according to Distraction.gov. Police will be pulling people over and subjecting them to checkpoints over a supposed violation (eating while driving) that doesn’t exist.
Reports concerning the program also made no mention whatsoever of the fact that such checkpoints are clearly a violation of the 4th Amendment. “Roving patrols and an increase in safety checkpoints” will characterize a “blanket campaign” that “may not work well in certain areas,” acknowledged Captain Nathan Kent, KSP Post One Commander. Despite claims to the contrary, this is also another example of how the main duty of an increasing number of police officers in America is not catching criminals or serving communities, but revenue generation.http://www.wbko.com/news/headlines/Kentucky-State-Police-Begin-Operation-RAID-244092301.html
Border Patrol checkpoints violate constitutional rights:
Tucson, AZ – U.S. Border Patrol agents at southern Arizona checkpoints are routinely violating the constitutional rights of local residents, calling into question the legitimacy of these checkpoints and prompting the ACLU of Arizona to demand a thorough review of the policies and practices governing checkpoint operations.
“Border Patrol checkpoints today bear little resemblance to those authorized by the Supreme Court. Many Border Patrol officials do not understand—or simply ignore—the legal limits of their authority at checkpoints,” ACLU of Arizona Staff Attorney James Lyall said in an administrative complaint sent today to the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General and Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. Copies of the letter were also sent to Arizona congressional representatives, the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
This complaint details the experiences of 15 U.S. citizens, ages 6 to 69, whose constitutional rights were violated at six different Arizona checkpoints. These citizens’ experiences demonstrate clear patterns of abuse at checkpoints including prolonged, unjustified detentions and unlawful searches based on service dogs “alerting” to nonexistent contraband. In many stops, it appears immigration enforcement is only a pretext for general criminal investigations, which the Supreme Court has found unconstitutional.
“Residents often experience extended interrogation and detention not related to establishing citizenship, unwarranted searches, racial profiling, verbal harassment, and physical assault, among other abuses,” the letter said. Many of the complainants are southern Arizona residents who must routinely pass through a checkpoint to go to work, take children to school or run basic errands.
Cases of Border Patrol agent misconduct at checkpoints detailed in the complaint include:
A Border Patrol agent pointing a gun at a driver, pulling him from his car and detaining him in handcuffs for 45 minutes after the driver declined to answer questions unrelated to citizenship;
Border Patrol agents detaining a driver and passenger in wire cages for 45 minutes—and searching their car over their objections—after a service dog alerted to an adjacent vehicle;
Border Patrol agents threatening and assaulting a woman for lawfully attempting to record a search of her vehicle following a false canine alert, upsetting her twin six-year-old children;
A Border Patrol agent searching a car without consent or probable cause, threatening the driver for objecting to the search, then lying to the driver about his identity;
Agents detaining three humanitarian aid workers solely for possessing backpacks and giving the aid workers an official Border Patrol card that misrepresents the legal basis for agents’ authority at checkpoints; and
Border Patrol agents detaining a local resident for over an hour because her car smelled like a skunk and questioning her about her legitimate prescription medication.
http://acluaz.org/issues/search-and-seizure/2014-01/4418
A $20.00 gadget that can hack any car: Can remotely control headlights, locks, steering and even brakes:
Called the CAN Hacking Tool (CHT), the device can be fitted to any car's Controller Area Network 'within minutes' and run malicious code through the vehicle's system.
Once hackers take hold of this network they can control lights, locks, steering and even brakes - and the it costs just $20.00
It was previously showcased at last year's Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, and now the developers plan to demonstrate the device during the Singapore version of the event in March.
'It can take five minutes or less to hook it up and then walk away,' Vazquez Vidal told Forbes. 'We could then trigger it to do whatever we have programmed it to do.'
Many cars come with built-in software that run on an operating system in a similar way to phones and computers.
The tool has four wires that are attached to the different outputs of a car's controller network.
A $1 computer chip is used to bypass any encryption on the car before reading and writing data from the flash memory of the vehicle's engine control unit.
The gadget is smaller than an iPhone, meaning it sits in the palm of the hacker's hand, and can be controlled remotely.
Hackers can use any command they want to program an action via the CHT, and this includes disabling the brakes, deploying the airbag, locking the doors and enabling the alarm. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2553026/The-gadget-hack-CAR-Terrifying-12-tool-remotely-control-headlights-locks-steering-brakes.html