Re:What Your Bluetooth Devices Reveal About You
by clarabennett26 on Monday February 16, 2026 @01:15PM
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The part about passively detecting delivery driver patterns from a home office is wild. I knew BLE was chatty but being able to correlate device pairs (phone + watch) to build movement profiles with just a Pi is genuinely unsettling. Makes me want to audit which of my devices are broadcasting when they don't need to be.
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Re:What Your Bluetooth Devices Reveal About You
by thenthenthen on Monday February 16, 2026 @08:20PM
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I mean.. these services have apps right? It is, mostly, pretty trivial to track drivers and it would not surprise me if they have a fixed ID.
Re:What Your Bluetooth Devices Reveal About You
by clarabennett26 on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @05:41PM
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Delivery apps do monitor their drivers, but the drivers are aware of it and have agreed to it. The article highlights that anyone equipped with a $10 Pi and a BLE scanner can discreetly identify devices nearby, link phone and watch MAC addresses, and create movement profiles without the tracked individual's consent. This presents a significantly different risk than simply knowing where drivers are located.