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They could be keeping logs of unique identifiers to sell to location data brokers.
by 34679 3y ago
They could be keeping logs of unique identifiers to sell to location data brokers.
- spicybright 3y agoNot wrong. Retail stores do that with wifi (and probably bluetooth now) all the time.
- brookst 3y agoIs that still a thing in the era of randomized MAC addresses?
- spicybright 3y agoI'd be quite surprised if they didn't come up with other identification techniques. Even if you couldn't pin point an individual anymore, I'm sure you can still learn a lot if you could somehow get version numbers from devices, wifi signal strength, etc. (especially when you can just dump it all into an AI now) The industry is too huge to just give up.
- gymbeaux 3y agoOn a related note, I recently went out of town and received several spam calls from phone numbers in that area. Some app on my phone seems to be selling my location data to these spam callers.
- ta1243 3y agoI've been looking at my unifi SSID log recently, although most of my APs are in a secure area (there's a ring of steel), clearly some are close enough to the road to pick up a fair few cars over the previous 24 hours -- 114 Audi_MMI_nnnn APs (and a few like "Frazer's Audi", quite a few "My Skoda/SEAT/VW 1234" too
- JKCalhoun 3y agoStill war driving in the 21st Century. I love it.
- c22 3y agoThis sounds like reverse war-driving.
- pizzaknife 3y agoI both love and worry about this
- xur17 3y agoIf you buy a cheap ($20) software defined radio, you can listen to the TPMS sensors in cars, and use this for tracking.
- tivert 3y ago> They could be keeping logs of unique identifiers to sell to location data brokers. Not to say no one did that, but it seems pretty stupid to integrate that into the pump itself (as well as extra trouble). Seems like if someone wanted to do that, it would be far easier to those companies to just ship a Raspberry Pi-sized device and bolt it to the side/top of the pump, or put it up in the canopy with the lights.
- Aurornis 3y agoThe article says thieves are connecting to the system as clients and manipulating settings of the pump. A data gathering system wouldn't need client connections nor would it realistically even be connected to the pump controls. They're just accessing some Bluetooth service interface for the pump.