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.
What’s the point of even having the 4th Amendment when corporations can completely sidestep it and tell the government exactly what you’re doing all the time? Corporations and the government are essentially the same entity with this massive loophole.
The constitution isn’t real anymore. It hasn’t been for a long time. Nothing is getting better until we have a revolution and constitutional convention
They want us to believe that we’re “free” and have “rights”.
Whenever a leftist talks about technofascism and technofeudalism, this is that.
Ignore them and let big brother watch you, citizen. Being adversarial to the safety that monitoring provides would be far too political for your centrist, apolotical heart. Just accept that this is the price of safety and work hard and have kids. Take the blue pill.
Or you can take the red pill, and free your mind.
I am on nextdoor and at least once a week there’s a post about Seattle’s mayor turning off the flock cameras and it’s inevitably flooded by Republicans screaming and shouting that she wants there to be more murder. These people have no critical thinking skills and just parrot anything whatever media station they chose says.
They always disappear when I point out the cameras have been hacked, Leo’s nationwide can access, they’ve been caught stalking with the cameras, they can listen in on conversations through a cracked window, and we have no guarantees the data won’t be fed to AI. Guess I can add precise location tracking through phones to the list too.
Does GDPR protect Europeans from this kind of boring surveillance dystopia?
IANAL but it does have a bunch of exceptions allowing governments to do whatever they want.
I what?
I love anal
I Am Not A Lawyer
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
I’m ready to just let the rich roll over us at this point.
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
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.
We got into this in detail on other social media. Some camera types are more susceptible, but the more powerful lasers are dangerous as shit , that could take out any camera. You need eye protection, and welding goggles might not do it because it’s different wavelengths. I’m not a technical guy so I can’t say precisely.
But the regular laser pointers can take out some cameras.
Scavenger hunt!
Soon? Oh boy do I have some bad news for this reporter
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?
Politicians have been legalizing their corruption for a long time. Nothing will improve until we have a revolution and constitutional convention
Surveillance is Terrorism as far as I’m concerned.
Normal citizens can do this to police.
The court ruled we can record police but they DOJ just indicted people in Milwaukee for this so we’ll see where that case goes.
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.
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.
I, like most people, didn’t read the article. However, a lot of people use tracking tags on their pets collar so they can actually be tracked if they get out. I’m guessing that is what these cameras will be picking up.
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.
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.
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?
