>>21024835Depends how it's implemented, and in what kind of environment it's place in. The message should not appear to come from a firearm-attached device, and the message should externally appear innocuous. The first part is easy if you're tracking multiple items or if you're tracking an item along many (hundreds of thousands) other users. An all-encompassing system would be used to track jewelry, cars, doors and windows, pets, etc. Items connected to a home wifi would come from a single IP so there's no identifying the particular item being tracked. No way to know if you're tracking a gun or tracking your fatass son opening the fridge. Items on a phone/3g network would be easily trackable by the NSA so that's pretty much out unless the devices eventually become so small & cheap that people use them for common items like a watch.
Making the message appear innocuous is also important. Don't raise flags to be noticed in the first place. A simple "Item 3 has moved" message would be simple. Encrypting the message hides the content but it's still obvious (to the NSA) that a message is going from A to B. If every message in the entire system used encryption by default then it would be a huge clusterfuck of nothing for the NSA to sift through.
