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>"Simulacra continuously fabricates a churning crowd of plausible-but-fake wireless devices around you — drowning your real devices in noise so that passive tra
by gruez 2mo ago
>"Simulacra continuously fabricates a churning crowd of plausible-but-fake wireless devices around you — drowning your real devices in noise so that passive trackers, ALPR add-ons, and co-travel correlators can't reliably pick your signal out of the crowd — while passively watching for the trackers that follow you."
"Oh, it's that guy with the bluetooth spammer."
https://xkcd.com/1105/ https://xkcd.com/1105/
- dylan604 2mo agoIf they became cheap enough, you could deploy them "permanently" to leave around town. Hang 'em on the same pole the Flock cameras are mounted, or on the ground in one of those hide-a-key things shaped like a rock on the ground near the pole. Just toss one out as you drive by type of situations. It's all solid state, so should be okay being tossed around a bit.
- em3ritus 2mo agoBLE spam tools rely on a handful of specific payload types, Apple Continuity and proximity pairing, Fast Pair model IDs, Swift Pair. Simulacra specifically does not use any of these so it does not cause pop ups on any devices. It also produces WiFi probe requests not just ble signals.