Patent ID: 8004404

Claim:
An information storage device for storing information related to a moving object in which the information storage device is equipped, the moving object including a moving-object-side specifying information storage unit storing moving-object-side specifying information which specifically identifies the moving object, the information storage device comprising: a device-side specifying information storage unit that stores device-side specifying information which identifies the moving object in which the information storage device is equipped; an information storage unit that stores sensor information received from a sensor, said sensor information being related to the moving object; a tamper verifying information generating unit that generates tamper verifying information based on obtained specifying information and the stored sensor information, the tamper verifying information for verifying whether or not the specifying information or the sensor information has been tampered with; a tamper verifying information storage unit that stores the generated tamper verifying information; and a moving object judging unit that determines whether the moving object in which the information storage device is currently equipped is an appointed moving object which has previously been appointed for the information storage device to be equipped in, and wherein the moving object judging unit retrieves the device-side specifying information stored in the device-side specifying information storage unit and the moving-object-side specifying information stored in the moving-object-side specifying information storage unit, and determines whether or not the equipped moving object is the appointed moving object based on the device-side specifying information and the moving-object-side specifying information.