Defense contractor Leonardo is promoting a new technology called SignalTrace that will package plate cameras with sensors that can scrape unique identifiers tied to your smart devices and make that data available to law enforcement.
Police, border security, and other government agencies already comprise Leonardo’s customer base, and with this technology, those clients seek to correlate footage from these cameras to phones, tablets, wearables, AirTags, and, naturally, the electronics inside cars themselves.
If SignalTrace can pick up your Bluetooth headphones, you can be sure it’ll also be looking out for your vehicle’s 5G hotspot, infotainment system, and even its tire pressure monitoring sensors. The company includes pet microchips as a potential entry point to tracking.
Does GDPR protect Europeans from this kind of boring surveillance dystopia?
We have to quit these corporate electronics.
hide your devices in a faraday cageXDrive around with a machine with 20k reprogrammable-MAC bluetooth radios that randomize the MAC address every 10 seconds ✓
Or buy cloned devices from China which all have the same MAC
Ya know, thats a good idea. I would make the time frame shorter depending on what the range of the transmitter is. If you switch while in range of the camera would it pick you up as two vehicles?
Enshittification of society itself
Mass surveillance by corporation
Soon? Oh boy do I have some bad news for this reporter
This is how you make tech enthusiasts hate tech.
Or motivate them to tactically acquire new hardware.
The elites don’t want you to know this but the cameras in the park are free, you can take them home.
Strategically Transfer Equipment to Another Location
Scavenger hunt!
I had heard previously that shining multiple laser pointers at a camera will break it. Just a thought.
How powerful do we need to get for that. It’d be a clean way to work on the issue. You’ll need to be in line of sight though i imagine.
If police can do this to normal citizens, normal citizens should be allowed to do this to the police. If they have nothing to hide, why would it be a problem?
There was some politician talking about how Section 702 is expiring on Pod Save America and he goes on explaining why it’s so great and needed and then one of his selling points is that there is a carve out for politicians and I couldn’t be more enraged when I heard that. Like I get the point he is making, but if politicians are above the law why would they care about the laws they are writing?
Normal citizens can do this to police.
I’m pretty sure if you follow a cop with a drone camera they are going to find a way to charge you with something.
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largemany, distributed amount of objects isn’t a drone camera.We just need batman level funding to do that
Eh it’s not that hard. The tech is just
- BLE radar.
- a webcam streaming to a cheap ALR program.
- Other antennas as needed.
Can’t be that expensive. How they come together (power, software) is an amount to work, along with maintenance.
Edit: oh and the threat of the violence monopoly being angry at you.
There is also the other path… Use the sensors they are installing everywhere, it’s not like security is a feature on most of these cameras.
Could one build a device that could overload these with fake data?
Or should we just use cordless angle grinders?
Did we just initiate a kernel panic challenge?
Perhaps lasers could knock out the cameras.
I don’t know anything about jamming these but I do know that DeWalt makes a pretty good cordless angle grinder
Its funnier than that, jammers are not legal, but data poisioning is. Leave a device near by that just rotates through IDs of all the signal types you know its listening for and it protects everyone passing by because their UIDs get lost in the noise.
I have one. Good shit.
looks like all those phones with physical shutoff switches are looking pretty fuckin good now.
Faraday bags for everything else
How many criminals are taking along their microchipped pets to and from their crimes?
Rhetorical question I know. They simply do not want to allow dissidents and undesirables the freedom of movement.
Also, if you contribute to a project like this, you are a traitor and should be treated as such.
How are they going to read pet microchips? They’re not broadcasting a signal constantly.
They’re not. Pet RFID chips are low frequency and have a read range of a few inches at most. By the time you pump enough energy in to get a signal you’ve probably microwaved the pet and blown out the chip antenna.
I think they bounce rf waves off of them. Same as with money, larger bills have a magnetic strip, they can bounce rf waves off of them and see how much cash is out there if not shielded.
If they track all that other stuff then they are not ‘license plate cameras’.
I’d be a shame if someone hid an ESP32 nearby randomly broadcasting previously detected MAC addresses.
Thinking in terms of database management systems I would think these systems collect enough unique info that they probably can use ‘composite-keys’ to sort through collected content. If thats the case then they can probably filter out all of those fake MAC addresses with relative ease, but I like where your head is at.
they’re feeding them through LLMs and putting them in a database. maybe they’re sanitizing their inputs, maybe not.
Narrator: “They weren’t”
Despite doing an awful lot with ESP32s, Home assistant, and a bunch of LoRa stuff, I know very little about BLE. Would it be possible for folks to voluntarily add their MAC to a data base on gitlab, and have a ESP32 program that:
- Spammed out whatever the max reasonable number of random entries from that database is
- Updated it every-time it was on a specified WiFi So that every time I drove by one of these, not only do I look like a spacehulk of TPS, headphones, cars and cellphones, but I’m specifically helping someone appear somewhere not their location as well?
One of the reasons 80s tech is making a comeback.
License plate cameras will soon discover rapid unscheduled disassembly
Special resource acquisition operation
