Re:Apple Maps vs. Google Maps
by post_break on Saturday July 10, 2021 @11:26AM
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Houston does it. They have bluetooth trackers on all the highways. They use it for determining congestion based on how often you can ping the same address. Keeps pinging? Gridlock. Pings once, traffic moving.
Re:Apple Maps vs. Google Maps
by stjohnswarts on Monday July 12, 2021 @11:58PM
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I wander if anyone has any proof it's being stored for future use or used for anything but general traffic data.
Not sure what they’re pointing to, but TPMS tracking is possible as well.
Re:Apple Maps vs. Google Maps
by aunty_helen on Saturday July 10, 2021 @01:11PM
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Sure, here's the one I've had experience with: https://addinsight.com.au/
They put powerful bluetooth sensors on poles or in roadside cabinets. They're pretty cheap to deploy so have become widely used.
Pretty much if you have two bluetooth devices talking to each other, you can be tracked by your bluetooth mac address. (Same as wifi networks and sniffing with wireshark etc)
Or if you have a device pinging with a non-random mac (ie your car).
If you've got an iphone and it's not actively being used, you get a random mac, no problems.
Re:Apple Maps vs. Google Maps
by TecoAndJix on Saturday July 10, 2021 @07:23PM
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Here is a slide deck from DEFCON on it:
https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2022/DEF%20CON%2022%20pre...
Can you say more about this? I've never heard of it.