“The logic goes that because he suspected his customers of doing something, he had a duty to ask. “What’s troubling a lot of people is that this conviction seems to impose a new sort of liability on people that create state-of-the-art technology,” says Branden Bell, an attorney in Olathe, Kansas, who is handling Anaya’s appeal. But at what point does a failure to be nosy edge into criminal conduct? In light of what happened to Anaya, that question is nearly impossible to answer. The technically savvy are on notice that they must be very careful about whom they deal with, since calculated ignorance of illegal activity is not an acceptable excuse.
#Toys with secret compartments code#
The culture’s libertarian ethos holds that creators shouldn’t be faulted if someone uses their gadget or hunk of code to cause harm the people who build things are under no obligation to meddle in the affairs of the adults who consume their wares.īut Alfred Anaya’s case makes clear that the government rejects that permissive worldview. Ī common hacker refrain is that technology is always morally neutral. The builders knowledge of what it will be used for is the central theme. Well its a long read but its another example of taking the law too far and will be appealed.
It would have been hard to argue that he was innocent, but I think they got it backwards. He got twice the sentence that the drug dealers did. I was surprised at how hard they threw the book at the guy that built the traps.
No technical details, but from the description, as CB says, it pretty much points to a CANBUS tap. I happened to read that article the other day, quite interesting. Schematic of my plans for the compartmentĪny comments are most welcome! More to come, once I have worked out the componentry etc!.Rear door card taken completely out, so you can see it from above.I will also cut back the torx screws and glue then back in the holes to give the appearance that only a little stock tray is sitting in the door. I plan to have a servo slide a bolt through the top of the compartment, that prevents it from being lifted up. As you can see in the graphic below, the little holder can actually be removed (along with the whole door card), and I've marked up (very crudely) where I intend for the compartment to be located. I noticed that there seems to be a nice hollow section sitting right below the 'coin compartment/handle' in the rear passenger doors. Today's post is identifying the section of the vehicle in which the compartment will be installed.
#Toys with secret compartments windows#
defroster, power windows etc), which would then in turn activate a servo to lock/unlock the compartment. I wouldn't mind using it to hide valuables in my car though when I park it in the city though! Over the next few months (i'm a busy boy), I will be documenting my progress in building a secret compartment in a car that can be operated by pressing a combination/sequence of -stock- buttons (i.e. I am simply fascinated by secret compartments, and was inspired by a recent WIRED article that discussed them (they're not illegal in Australia by the way - which is where I am ). Let me preface myself by stating that I have no intention of creating a 'car trap' that is used to smuggle anything illegal.
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