Nevar forget the Quadro Tracker, the device sold to...

Nevar forget the Quadro Tracker, the device sold to police agencies allegedly able to track anything, which instead of a circuitboard was revealed to just have ants glued to paper with epoxy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadro_Tracker

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@cwebber

> Nevar forget the Quadro Tracker, the device sold to police agencies allegedly able to track anything, which instead of a circuitboard was revealed to just have ants glued to paper with epoxy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadro_Tracker

Wow, they got away with that for three **years**‽ Security theater, indeed!

I hadn't come across that, so thanks!

1 Dec 2022 at 15:06 | Open on fosstodon.org

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@cwebber

*keeps reading*
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Wait, and then after all that, they were acquitted?!

> On January 29, 1997 the three men were acquitted of all charges by a federal jury.

Wat.

1 Dec 2022 at 15:10 | Open on fosstodon.org

Andrew O'Brien

@cwebber
wait, wait... you're telling me that former used car salesman Wade L. Quattlebaum wasn't a misunderstood genius inventor?! /s

1 Dec 2022 at 15:07 | Open on rls.social

Eric Geldmacher

@cwebber
> The Quadro Tracker was invented by Wade L. Quattlebaum, a former used car salesman from Harleyville, South Carolina.
🤣 No offense to any used car salespeople out there, but, um … that sounds about right!

1 Dec 2022 at 15:09 | Open on geldmacher.io

Russ

@cwebber The griftdaddy of the ADE 651!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADE_651

1 Dec 2022 at 15:10 | Open on mstdn.social

Tin :endeavourOS:

@cwebber Wow. TIL. Literal ants. It also seems that they were acquitted... I imagine because the judge sat back and was like, "You know what? Well done."