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Posted by ssgodderidge 11 hours ago

What your Bluetooth devices reveal(blog.dmcc.io)
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ck2 7 hours ago|
Has anyone ever studied what happens with Bluetooth contention where thousands of people are gathered in a small space?

Like a marathon mass-start with 10,000 sometimes 20,000 or more people

How does bluetooth handle that? Or it doesn't?

username_here 5 hours ago||
In my experience, just fine. I recently ran a large (~30k) marathon and my AirPods and watch never glitched once, streaming the whole time including in the packed start corrals. I had the same thought about RF contention, but Bluetooth didn't seem to care.
supertrope 6 hours ago||
Even licensed wireless stops functioning. All circuits are busy.
zoklet-enjoyer 10 hours ago|
I read an article in 2012 about the feds (DHS?) placing Bluetooth enabled devices along I5 in Seattle. They were able to make profiles of people based on what Bluetooth devices they had in their cars. Is anyone familiar with this? I've periodically tried to Google it and can't find anything about it
Spooky23 7 hours ago||
Possible, but they buy data from the carriers with similar profile possibilities. The DEA operates long standing and pervasive surveillance in “drug corridors” like I-95 from Maine to Miami. They do things like LPR and grabbing passenger pictures.

If Bluetooth is used, it may be a way to get a count of passengers or if the passengers change. I know based on newspaper accounts that they are particularly interested in cars that stop in Philly or Baltimore.

This stuff is frequently used against cops too so they may use the tech in similar ways. If you’re someone worried about getting raided, spotting a large number of new signals at the front door is an early warning potentially.

parpfish 10 hours ago|||
I remember an art exhibit by an online privacy activist made where it’d ping people’s phones to get a list of “known WiFi networks” and then display them on a screen in a room.

Each person would get a unique fingerprint of named network locations

angus-g 3 hours ago|||
There are realtime systems for traffic analysis. I know of Addinsight, e.g. https://news.addinsight.com/bluetooths-leap-forward-the-evol...
coldbrewed 9 hours ago|||
https://www.kuow.org/stories/privacy-advocates-flag-a-potent...
post_break 10 hours ago||
I believe Houston used bluetooth to measure congestion on 45.