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.
And exactly as predicted, the surveillance creep begins its next steps, with more to come.
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.
Who’s up for making villages where this kind of shit is burnt in a ritual fire?
With everything you can do to reduce your fingerprint from technology, stuff like this just makes it virtually impossible to carry anything electronic.
And, by that, of course you mean they’ll tell us that already are, soon. 🤌🏼
Oh fucking yikes.
Pets?! My tags are FDX-B, can they actually read them from that distance?! I know UHF RFID is a thing but afaik average FDX-B tags found in pets aren’t capable of that.
Uhhh… if it can do that it can also read the one on your keys for the gym/pool/work/apartments…
Jokes on you, my car doesnt have a tpms.
