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Re:What Your Bluetooth Devices Reveal About You by spockz on Monday February 16, 2026 @04:08PM (#47040352)
Not all cars have active TPMS. my Volvo xc90 had them but in later models they switched back to passive ones. So it is not even a given for higher end models.
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Re:What Your Bluetooth Devices Reveal About You by ssl-3 on Monday February 16, 2026 @05:15PM (#47041073)
That's not quite the end of the road, though: The tires themselves often have RFID tags embedded.

https://rfid.michelin.com/what-is-rfid/

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Re:What Your Bluetooth Devices Reveal About You by m-s-y on Monday February 16, 2026 @07:26PM (#47042134)
much harder to read rfid at a distance
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Re:What Your Bluetooth Devices Reveal About You by ssl-3 on Monday February 16, 2026 @08:26PM (#47042554)
It is.

My read through this document suggests that the maximum usable range may be as far as 5 meters, or as little as 1 meter: https://rfid.michelin.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/dataShe...

That's not as far as BLE or TPMS can work at, but it's not exactly like the NFC arrangement in a credit card, either. 5 meters is enough for a motivated attacker to do some undetected bulk data collection.

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