Remote parenting
Posted: November 17th, 2007 | 1 Comment »Brian Aladesuyi, 17, received a new Jeep in exchange for a promise: he would never drive it outside his hometown. His father, chief executive of the security firm EarthSearch Communications, used EarthSearch’s Web site to map Kennesaw’s boundaries into the Jeep’s onboard computer, surrounding the entire city with an electronic fence.
But when his father took a business trip to Brazil, Brian decided to try his luck. Brian drove to Marietta, a neighboring town. Seconds after Brian breached the invisible wall, his father received a text message on his mobile phone [and] sent a message commanding the computer to disable the Jeep’s engine.
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The wonderful possibilities of parenting 2.0. Maybe the reason why nobody cares about surveillance devices is that we all see way too many potential usages for ourselves…
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