Wireless transmitter found hidden beside Philadelphia train tracks

From this:


Action News has learned that last week SEPTA police recovered an infrared sensor that was carefully concealed along SEPTA's track bed near 34th and Powelton. The device, a commercially available wireless infrared transmitter made for home security use was discovered spray-painted black and tucked neatly in the trackside ballast. Such devices transmit a signal when something cuts across their infrared beam. And while there is no indication of any specific threat, investigators are concerned because the sensor has the potential to be used as a triggering device...


Terrorism · Thu, 05/20/2004 - 22:44 · · Importance: 1


Independent, in-depth coverage of immigration, politics, and media bias since 2002. Also: multiculturalism, Los Angeles, California, privacy, and occasionally celebrities and wacky humor...


If you can't find what you're looking for, see the About page or use the navigation features to the right.

Start here
Previous/Next
Diversions

Main

Atom feed · RSS 2.0 feed · RSS 0.91 feed · WML

Subscribe with Bloglines
Add to My Yahoo!
Add to My MSN
Please subscribe to the feed and tell your friends about this site.


What's Hot

Navigation
All Tags
Note: only a fraction of the content has so far been tagged.
Tag search
Full text search
Reliable, pre-11/19/08 only:
Site search (new window)
Custom Search

Categories
Archives

All Posts(links to each post by title)

Latest