cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/48289957
Defense contractor Leonardo is promoting a new technology called SignalTrace that will package plate cameras with sensors that can scrape unique identifiers tied to your smart devices and make that data available to law enforcement.
Police, border security, and other government agencies already comprise Leonardo’s customer base, and with this technology, those clients seek to correlate footage from these cameras to phones, tablets, wearables, AirTags, and, naturally, the electronics inside cars themselves.
If SignalTrace can pick up your Bluetooth headphones, you can be sure it’ll also be looking out for your vehicle’s 5G hotspot, infotainment system, and even its tire pressure monitoring sensors. The company includes pet microchips as a potential entry point to tracking.
Jokes on you, my car doesnt have a tpms.
With everything you can do to reduce your fingerprint from technology, stuff like this just makes it virtually impossible to carry anything electronic.
Be sure to remind your local street folk that each of those cameras contains at least 3 lbs of copper wiring.
Plus a $300 lipo battery
Let’s not be deceitful. Its about $100 dollars.
Also a nice infrared camera, and a single board computer which is the real value here, just be sure to take out the GPS (can be reused in other things technically) and the LTE/SIM card(probably dont try to reuse this one )
Dont forget the solar panel.
There was another post talking about the cost, was just quoting them.
And exactly as predicted, the surveillance creep begins its next steps, with more to come.
Who’s up for making villages where this kind of shit is burnt in a ritual fire?
Late last year a city I have to drive through was bragging they had deployed systems to ID cars based on their TPMS sensors. I made a comment on lemmy some time later mentioning this, and also talked about how I had removed those sensors from my vehicle.
I was immediately inundated with comments that more or less said “That’s too hard to do and requires special tools, also your car will certainly kill you once you take them out due to three tires having 36 psi and one tire having 35 psi, and it won’t work anyway because your car’s 5g connection and your phone so it’s a stupid idea and you should definitely not do it because you’d be a moron for doing so.”
The fact that I was hit by so many comments that basically said the same thing so quickly, tells me I was correct for removing them. I wonder where those “people” are now?
Those problems the users brought to your attention are accurate and still exist, though. Now there’s just additional problems.
Unless you’re obscuring your license plate as you drive, they still don’t need this tech to track your movements and will continue to do so by camera, alone, and you’ve still degraded your driving experience. I’m not sure what you think was “solved” by removing your TPMS sensors, since they’re still tracking you just the same.
I did not know tpms used radios for local comm. I would thought they’d used a type of rotary union like you see on semis with auto inflate tires.
Leave it to manufacturers to find the cheapest solution thats worse for everyone.
Yup! 315 mhz, and each one broadcasts a unique identifier, making it easy to see which four sensors are yours.
Lol
Antennas are too hard to deploy? It’s just a radio signal. Most hackers could build a tool to record tpms sensors that pass their house.
Are there other ways to track you, yea. But those of us that drive and keep old cars running don’t have 5g and tpms. If I leave my phone at home, the only radio signal my car puts out is the Bluetooth from the aftermarket radio I installed. I could swap that back and they’d have to use cameras to track my car.
Yes, I know. This thread is about how they are adding radio tracking onto their cameras. Which will also make the driver identifiable for shared vehicles, or mass transit.
Oh no, I wasn’t clear - they said removing the TPM sensors themselves required specialized equipment. Which I suppose is technically true, but it was the work of an hour and a harbor freight manual tire changer. So it “requires” equipment any stoned hillbilly either owns themselves or is owned by someone they know. Or they could just have a tire shop do it.
The car I drive is modern-ish, from the last decade, but it is a really, really basic car. It doesn’t even shift it’s own gears. The instrument cluster and center console don’t even have screens in them. There is certainly not any 5G antenna, as the car predates the commercial 5G rollout.
Oh yea. It’s just replacing a valve stem. I guess the computer might bitch some if it doesn’t have any, but electrical tape fixes that light.
I guess balancing the tire after would be the hardest part.
Oh fucking yikes.
