$4,500 Transformed this Jeep into a Surveillance Hub

Here’s an up-fitting project you probably never considered for your Jeep.

Then again, spending $4,500 to convert a Jeep into an underground surveillance vehicle isn’t the typical customizing project. But I get the impression that Atlanta resident Drew Porter isn’t your typical Jeep owner.

Earlier this year, Porter decided to embark on a project that would turn his Grand Cherokee into a roving spy van, loaded with everything from huge antennas to high-tech software, as highlighted in a SF Gate report.

Why, you ask? So that he can intercept radio signals from police dispatchers, mobile phones, and infrastructures like floodgates. And to prove a point, of course.

“It’s like the early 2000s,” said Porter, who got turned onto surveillance while working for a defense contractor. “We are so connected with everything, and our connectivity is just increasing.”

Ah, okay, now it all makes sense. Uh, not really. But as I noted earlier, Porter isn’t your typical Jeep owner.

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Via [SF Gate]