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Take the car well away from the home box and jam it.
It is taken from East West 101 series S01E03. The speaker is detective was listening to a wire in a police van and giving orders about following suspect car on the move. does he mean the police van?
Thanks in advance,
It is taken from East West 101 series S01E03. The speaker is detective was listening to a wire in a police van and giving orders about following suspect car on the move. does he mean the police van?
Thanks in advance,
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| 2 +1 | police surveillance van |
Althea Draper
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José Patrício
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The next scene shows the police in a police car pulling over the suspects' car. So as far as I can tell the home box would be either the suspects' industrial unit that they have just left or the police surveillance van. I suspect it's the van as they could be slang comparing it to your home box for your TV, broadband connection (centre of communications), and they don't want it to be spotted. I think 'jam it' means pull it over. (As an aside, a jam sandwich/jam butty was slang for a police car in the UK, but this is Australia and I'd be doubtful if 'jam' is a reference to that here.)
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkkJ00jBmk8 23:10 mins onwards.
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkkJ00jBmk8 23:10 mins onwards.
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hacker's personal machine
Anastasia Kalantzi
Thieves use electronic car key relay boxes, putting one near your home to receive signals coming from your car key fob through the walls or windows.- https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/advice/know-how/car-hacking-and-...
A relay is an electrically operated switch. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relay
Thieves use electronic car key relay boxes, putting one near your home to receive signals coming from your car key fob through the walls or windows.- https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/advice/know-how/car-hacking-and-...
A relay is an electrically operated switch. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relay
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