Better Call Saul tracking device (Spoiler Alert!)

[PartialDischarge]

Spoiler Alert!!!


At yesterdays Better Call Saul premiere, wonderful episode by the way , there was a tracking device found in Mikes car. Is it real?
I remember that the gps tracking device used by Hank Schrader in Breaking Bad was real, so this one may be real as well, or maybe not

[LaserSteve]

The manual in the picture has the right font and looks like the right Logo for a US Army Manual..

The rest does not look right... Wrong Paper, Wrong Binding...

The module picture looks like the printing on a Laird or Murata RF module.  Both of which are done on a very similar material by a very similar printer

I'm calling really good, detailed,Hollywood fake on this one.

Usually such devices start with AN/ LL-NN  where L is a series of letters and NN is a number.

Steve

[helius]

6F:00:0B is not a valid OUI for any company manufacturing devices with MAC addresses. So this device is not real.

[tooki]

Umm... please use spoiler alerts!!!

[CJay]

6F:00:0B is not a valid OUI for any company manufacturing devices with MAC addresses. So this device is not real.

Eight bytes on the device, MAC addresses are six bytes, why the extra two bytes?

[Nusa]

There's always EUI-64, which is a superset of EUI-48 and MAC-48. That would make the OUI 00:00:6F = Madge Networks Ltd. Token-ring adapters.  However, the 4th and 5th octets don't look real from what I know about EUI-64, but I don't pretend to totally understand the assignment scheme.

The model number doesn't show up in a search, other than in reference to Saul, so that alone would point to a fake label, even if the device is real.

[PartialDischarge]

The transmitter, being that, a non-networked stand alone radio transmitter shouldn't even have a mac address.
Everything points to a fake to me except one thing, that something like this has to exist.

[LaserSteve]

For example R&S DDF007
I want one for Christmas. Read the Brochure, its amazing.

Steve ?

[SeanB]

Plenty of small GPRS equipped self powered tracking modules around, designed to be attached to the frame of a vehicle, and using cell tower triangulation to locat themselves to a pretty good accuracy. They often do not use a GPS module, as they typically are under the vehicle and have no sky sight available, but the tower locator is generally good enough. Power is typically good enough for a week of use, and they send a packet every few hours when stationary and then when they detect motion, giving you the ability to track the path taken.

Slightly different ones are wired into the OBD socket, actually replacing the original purple one with a new socket, so they plug in to get both parasitic power and data lines, while appearing to not be there to a casual look. Those typically will have a GPS module on the top side, and are designed to be mounted under the dash or inside the plastic of the A pillar. They also do GPRS and cellphone triangulation in addition to the GPS locating, and some models are able as well to disable the vehicle ignition system remotely as well. They also have a small back up battery to enable them to send a few location packets if the vehicle battery is removed or goes flat.

Used by financial institutions to track vehicles either as part of a loan agreement, or installed by the owners to allow asset tracking and recovery if the vehicle is hijacked or stolen.

[Venten]

Hi. I recently searched for MTSAR RF 65 in google. And I see in 3ders.org that this device was built especially for Better call Saul. It does not come commercially as the Breacking Bad tracker.
 With a 3D printer and arduino plus a router antenna / wifi card antenna.. you can make the device.

It is not detailed if it works as a real-time tracker or if the arduino emulates all the software but it is sure that it works.

And here are some photos of the transmitter

[coppercone2]

they put stuff like this that you track with a directional antenna inside of construction equipment. Popular in england at least


https://www.trackersecurity.co.uk/YouTube.html

Might be necessary to have a RF tracker to help convince police and judge to issue a warrant, since its some kind of physical thing rather then something nebulous in software which can be falsified and cause a legal headache like a invasion of privacy lawsuit caused by bad triangulation or such. Or if its in a non cell tower area so it can't communicate its GPS back... since you can say pretty much anything you want with software ,like that you have a bead proving your cement mixer is in the oval office.

[jmelson]

At yesterdays Better Call Saul premiere, wonderful episode by the way , there was a tracking device found in Mikes car. Is it real?

Most definitely, the police have them.  They have trackers that can be shot from a police car and attach to the target car.  I'm guessing they send position via cell phone, and can display position on the in-car computer of the police cruiser.  This probably uses a bunch of police department infrastructure, too.  The trackers are about the size of a tennis ball.

Jon