Confessions of a G33k

For another bonus, the government can subpoena all of your driving records to determine if you were in the vicinity of a crime when it was committed! YAY!

Fluffy is exaclty correct. The convenience is great, who wants logs of their driving activity kept around by various gov't agencies? The people who say they have nothing to hide just don't get it.

Fluffy has a point, but I say turn it around:

COP: You were in Boston yesterday. We have a wittness!!

YOU: Check my EzPass: I was in Philly.

Check mate, Cop.

Turning it around and into a twist..

And the corrupt cop with a friend simply removes your entry from the logs. Proving all the more convincingly that your alibi is a fraud.

And that same corrupt person can frame anyone, anytime; put me INTO a log I'm not there already, etc.

What's the point of debating this further?

The point is that the gov't can't be trusted with more information about you and it doesn't matter whether you are guilty or innocent of anything.

So on one hand I live in fear of being framed, when the Gov't has more ways to do so already then I can count (who REALLY can say what DNA tests really prove: couldn't I be convicted with a squiggly line that proves nothing?), or beat traffic.

Hmmmmmm

Maybe I spend too much time on the road, but I'm not that paranoid.

You can get the last word, I'm done.

That's my final word.

Well, my point was just that it makes everyone in the vicinity of a crime a suspect, whether they have anything to hide or not. Sort of an inherent reverse alibi - like, "Well, you were within the confidence interval of someone who was fleeing the scene of the crime, so we're going to get a warrant and question you, along with 500 other people, even though we have no other link or probable cause."

I use one as well for Houston. It turned my ~1 hour drive home from work to less than 20 minutes of driving.

As far as the privacy concerns go, I do realize that my life is tracked pretty heavily and that I could be traced all the way home if they really wanted to.

1) At work I have to swipe a badge when I arrive and leave the building.
2) I have the EZ Tag for the tollways while driving.
3) I have to use a remote control for the apartment complex, that may or may not be traceable. If not, I have neighbors that regularly see when I come home and could be witnesses for/against me.

As far as the EZ Tag goes, it doesn't seem that likely that police would question someone for using it. First of all, you're going way too fast to be able to commit a crime. Secondly, I would think more than 500 people pass through there in an hour. Thirdly, I've not heard of any prior examples of this happening before, and I doubt any judge with even 1/4 of a brain would write 500 warrants for random people based off of flimsy fishing evidence.

In any case, those of you against these are free to not get one, while people like me do get them. I enjoy being able to get home so much faster to hang out with my wife, and being able to sleep in a little bit in the mornings.

I have an EZPass as well. I never got rid of it when I moved to VA, since I travel back to NJ often, and word has it that Richmond is going to join the system as well (I refuse to get a Smart Tag; one is all they're going to get out of me).

I don't worry about the cops or the government snooping on me, or framing me, or anything like that. I sleep with a tinfoil beanie on, which stops them from reading my thoughts, and everything's cool after that.

I can email you directions to make your own if need be. Just let me know.

Fluffy: you show me a judge that would issue a warrant for an extreme number of people who happened to use EzPass (in your example, 500) and I'll show you an attornet who will have it tossed out.