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there are passive ways to track cell phones using bluetooth: https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/22/bluetooth_tracking_device/ https://www.theregister.com/2021
by autoexec 2y ago
there are passive ways to track cell phones using bluetooth:
https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/22/bluetooth_tracking_device/ https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/22/bluetooth_tracking_de...
https://cec.gmu.edu/news/2025-02/find-my-hacker-how-apples-network-can-be-potential-tracking-tool https://cec.gmu.edu/news/2025-02/find-my-hacker-how-apples-n...
- lxgr 2y agoThe second attack you linked is yet another completely different threat model. It requires running malicious software on the device to be tracked. From the paper: The Trojan code runs on the computer to be tracked. It retrieves the advertising address, acquires the matching public key from our server, and then advertises lost messages That's about as active as it gets! The first one describes radio fingerprinting, which is relatively new, concerning, and might be tricky to address.