"We're working closely with the police on our pervasive, no-permission geo-tracking system" is a *terrible* fucking message to hear. It won't be long before th

"We're working closely with the police on our pervasive, no-permission geo-tracking system" is a *terrible* fucking message to hear. It won't be long before they have tiny mics, too. And the little speakers they have, of course, can be disabled. We on HN should really band together to do something about this. There is already https://github.com/seemoo-lab/AirGuard https://github.com/seemoo-lab/AirGuard which is cool. What else could be done? I can think of some general directions: 1) Fill their network with noise somehow. If there are lots of tags, or tags pretending to be other tags, then information on which tag is where will be less valuable 2) Make something that forces existing tags to out themselves (should they have working speakers) 3) Jam their radio signals. Probably illegal in the U.S. under FCC rules, but perhaps there's a way to do it where you're not actually jamming, you're merely doing something else that causes them to not work. 4) Find some reliable way of identifying them via a wand, your phone, etc. 5) Apply political pressure to make this sort of thing illegal (especially for the authorities) 6) Make laws that say if you're using spectrum to build a mesh network, it has to be open to everyone