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Comment on Bluetooth tracker hidden in a postcard and mailed to a warship exposed its location — $5 gadget put a $585 million Dutch ship at risk for 24 hours

Shadow@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

The science behind this one confuses me. Bluetooth is short range, and gps is too low power to penetrate. There’s no way a gps will get lock from inside a ship, and someone would need a compatible app and internet to relay it out.

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Ooops@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
But decades of media has conditioned people to believe that most tech and IT stuff is basically magic, and that seems to nowadays include tech-centric journalists.

So they simply don’t think about actual feasibility and just report omitting details because “look, tech wizard did tech-magic”.

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cecilkorik@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Stories like this always feel like misdirection efforts to deflect blame from the actually responsible devices and organizations. The amount of normalization of openly-broadcasting-at-all-times cellphones in our society can’t really be explained with anything less than an overwhelming multi-level propaganda campaign.

Who needs spies anymore when you can just convince everyone, even military personnel, to carry around an always-on camera and microphone with onboard power and various long-range wireless options (and get them to willingly keep it continuously charged for you!)

WTF are we doing to ourselves and why anybody tolerates this nonsense I have no idea.

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- MNByChoice@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Yes!
  
  An diplomats/CEOs using Teslas!
  
  Optical cameras are mandated at Musk’s insistence, despite lidar being better.
  
  Built in cell modem for “over the air updates”.
  
  Massive processing onboard for “interpreting the cameras”.
  
  Microphones and cameras inside to “ensure the driver is paying attention”.
  
  Big ass batteries for driving and keeping sky kit running.
  
  Get the targets to pay for the spy gear themselves.
  
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Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Thanks for writing this for me. This seems implausible without other failures happening in concert.

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pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Yep, which terrifies me about apple devices because of its mesh system. All devices bounce from one to the next until one gets internet and it pings the location

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Midnitte@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Comment below explains it very well

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