And remember, in any country where these cameras exist police do not need a warrant to access this informaion.
I’m not buying that they can scan pet chips. I think that requires closer proximity than their devices can get. At some point, we ought to just buy high powered jammers that only activate when the scanners are around.
On the othet hand, its still an issue that we can’t address issues faster than they enshittify.
- 5 days
I’m not buying that they can scan pet chips. I think that requires closer proximity than their devices can get.
IDK if they can or not, but I’ve heard they scan car tire pressure sensors. Which apparently, have unique IDs. Unique fingerprint for each car that has 'em. All those fingeprrints put together let them track cars even if the plate is changed.
Unless there is wirelesa telemetry from the sensor, they probably can’t scan those.
- 3 days
The tire sensors, you mean? (nvm this if you meant the pet chips!) Those do use wireless telemetry. It’s easier do like that, and more reliable, than attaching a wire to a rapidly rotating thing through a brushing contact or w/e. Most of them have little batteries, so they actively transmit. Unlike those pet RFID chips which are powered only by the incoming radio signal.
They also have unique identifiers. Not unique per car. I guess it makes sense in a way. You wouldn’t want to use the TPMS data from a car in the next lane. But it does open up this attack :(
I wonder what kinda weird looks a person would get, if they ask a tire shop to remove the TPMS modules from their tires, lol
- 21 hours
We just need to drive around with jammers and high powered lasers that destroy cameras.
7 daysI hate this timeline. Almost everybody I know is firmly of the, “I don’t need privacy; I have nothing to hide!” or, “It’s just a little bit of surveillance, and if it can help find murderers, fine,” persuasion. All as our freedom is willingly snapped and scraped away.
- 4 days
Saying you don’t need privacy because you have nothing to hide is like saying you don’t need freedom of speech because you have nothing to say.
