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I think the point remains. Now that this thing is out in the Wild we’ll see all sorts of attempts, however futile, to defend against it.
by remarkEon 7y ago
I think the point remains.
Now that this thing is out in the Wild we’ll see all sorts of attempts, however futile, to defend against it.
- mrandish 7y agoThe best defense would be to ensure no one knows which car you're in. I think we can assume that these HVTs have already employed stringent RF security for themselves and their minions via battery removal and securing all devices in Faraday bags. Yet U.S. intelligence is somehow still able to track them. It must be quite unnerving. I suspect some new techniques are being leveraged that are apparently having some success.
- remarkEon 7y agoIf one assumes some level of constant or near-constant surveillance, I think there's likely some facial recognition or perhaps some kind of matching of your "bio signature" that's going on. These guys swap SIM cards all the time, and are pretty wise to RF tracking at this point.
- mrandish 7y agoI agree. With 24/7 wide-area drone surveillance being recorded and a neural net automating 'vehicle of interest' tracks both forward and backward in time, it's not even necessary to tag vehicles with trackers. I've suspected that they're also using hidden surveillance cams that do license plate and make/model capture along with occupant facial recognition. Assuming you have some additional mobile tracking cameras hidden in vehicles so they can be relocated once a day, the neural net could pretty easily infer guesses about where to put them.
- remarkEon 7y agoPretty sure they sweep for cameras now too, but I absolutely expect a neural net could do most of that work anyway. It’s an interesting problem of finding good enough instruments to track.