What about a Faraday wrap for your car? I think we need those.
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ramble81@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Flock also captures WiFi and Bluetooth MAC addresses and IMEI from cell phones. Even if they don’t get a license plate if your car has wireless CarPlay or Android Auto, if you’re connected via Bluetooth, if you have an in car hotspot, or if you have any connected services (remote start, phone app, traffic), they can track you by that.
A license plate is no longer the only identifying piece of information.
Jax@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Can’t these things be disabled?
ramble81@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Some yes. Some no. Most of the the WiFi and BT can, but the car IMEI, usually no unless you yank the fuse/module.
Now even if you disable your car stuff. It can still track those same things for your personal phone. Have an Apple or Google Watch, Bluetooth is enabled. Little things like that, which make it worse because now instead of tracking a car, they’re tracking people/personal devices.
Janx@piefed.social 1 month ago
Sure. In the same way that you technically don’t have to have a phone, tablet, or computer to participate in the modem world.
ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world 1 month ago
Sure, But what good has participating in the modern world ever gotten me?
TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I find myself asking that question more and more often…
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The PC term is demolished
redsand@infosec.pub 1 month ago
Can still beat these with AI poisoning stickers on the plate. Mac spoofing, faraday bags, some car modification (we need open source head units) and more obvious solutions can all be used here.
ramble81@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Never said it was impossible, but more and more it requires you to further and further isolate yourself to have any meaningful privacy.
Monument@piefed.world 1 month ago
As a person with modest theoretical knowledge and low practical experience in the matter (read: this might be an utterly bullshit idea), I kind of want to make a “Bluetooth shotgun” that responds to any AWK packets with a slew of spoofed info.
If such a thing were possible, I would then make it also listen for responses, and log them with a geolocation. I would then spoof those responses every time an awk was received around that area. (This is because nonsense data can be filtered to reveal just the real responses - my device(s), but inaccurate real data would destroy the value of the surveillance.)
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month ago
“it’s that car that’s 20 cars again”
okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 1 month ago
github.com/JiaoXianjun/BTLE
github.com/migraine-sudo/BTLE-R
Because I would love to see something like this exist, I went and found some prior art for doing arbitrary BTLE for you. Clankers seem to think SDR is necessary for the response-to-AWK bit because this is usually handled at the firmware/hardware level.
f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
f-droid.org/…/de.simon.dankelmann.bluetoothlespam
I do not know if it works. I couldn’t get any BT connection notifications to show up on any Android devices I have here.
zbyte64@awful.systems 1 month ago
Could still filter it down by addresses that show up at multiple places.