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License Plate Cameras Will Soon Track Phones, Wearables, Infotainment, and Even Your Pets
(www.thedrive.com)
Soon? Oh boy do I have some bad news for this reporter
this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2026
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This is how you make tech enthusiasts hate tech.
Could one build a device that could overload these with fake data?
Or should we just use cordless angle grinders?
If police can do this to normal citizens, normal citizens should be allowed to do this to the police. If they have nothing to hide, why would it be a problem?
Normal citizens can do this to police.
I'd be a shame if someone hid an ESP32 nearby randomly broadcasting previously detected MAC addresses.
Despite doing an awful lot with ESP32s, Home assistant, and a bunch of LoRa stuff, I know very little about BLE. Would it be possible for folks to voluntarily add their MAC to a data base on gitlab, and have a ESP32 program that:
- Spammed out whatever the max reasonable number of random entries from that database is
- Updated it every-time it was on a specified WiFi So that every time I drove by one of these, not only do I look like a spacehulk of TPS, headphones, cars and cellphones, but I'm specifically helping someone appear somewhere not their location as well?
One of the reasons 80s tech is making a comeback.
How many criminals are taking along their microchipped pets to and from their crimes?
Rhetorical question I know. They simply do not want to allow dissidents and undesirables the freedom of movement.
Also, if you contribute to a project like this, you are a traitor and should be treated as such.
If they track all that other stuff then they are not 'license plate cameras'.
Kill the rich, save the poor. Taxation, is not enough for the current era. There must be justice for the crimes committed. Once they are dead, then we can figure out how to run the world without capitalism. Untill then, the elimination of the ultra-rich by any means should be the goal. Everything else is noise.
In addition: We have the power. The US power grid is fragile. As such if we all turn off our power at the exact same time, we can cripple the grid. On July 4th at 11pm cst exactly, we can all power down our homes. Even if only 50% do it, it will enough. We have the power, and we will stop these monsters by any means necessary!
License plate cameras will soon discover rapid unscheduled disassembly
... pet microchips are passive LF RFID tags, they have a readable range of maybe 15cm? Unless they've figured out some way to power them at distance (or they're sticking UHF tags in your dogs, which they arent) without frying the camera and giving everyone cancer, they're inert. What weird marketing hype.
Industry researchers have managed to create directional antennas that read 125 kHz chips (the kind used in pets) from as far away as one meter. That's most or all of the width of a sidewalk, if the reader is placed at ground level.
For unimplanted tags of unspecified size sure it's technically possible to do, but I'll let the article summarize why this is blatant marketing hype:
The ideal lab setup often fails miserably once you mount the reader near a gate or machine frame.
It’s worth saying: 1 meter is an ambitious goal for 125kHz. LF systems are intentionally short-range to prevent cross-talk. If you truly need 1-meter coverage, sometimes the real solution isn’t to push more current — it’s to rethink geometry, use multi-coil zones, or explore hybrid systems (LF for identity, HF/UHF for distance).
and then mention that the interference from the dermis vastly reduces the useful range of the tags, and that the article doesn't actually specify what type of tag they're designing for (or if it's using a set orientation...).
Maybe time to start creating devices that spam various Bluetooth MACs and just leave them around... Raise the noise floor a bit
Ramp the signal up and down, add some doppler shift so it makes it think the signal is in motion. They would need multiple antennas to filter that out
Nah, too easy to filter. Make them clone MACs they've seen, and simulate trips around the city.
Is this concept viable? Interesting.
Small single board computer with a solar battery could spam fake bluetooth MACs all day and night. You would need additional hardware to fake the 4G signals (and this would be illegal) or things in the unlicensed bands like tire pressure monitor sensors.
Your setup would cost about as much as theirs and they have infinity money, so absent some rich sponsor you'd be limited to screwing with a few nodes. A more effective use of battery power would be an angle grinder (this would also be illegal).
The more of you that is digital, the more of you they will see. Their ignorance of your life is a critical protection for you, from them.
ghost in the shell laughing man shit.
a couple years go by and they don't know how to track people regularly anymore.
so if we bypass these sensors and algorithms, we become invisible in plain sight
Eventually you’ll be able to walk around invisibly simply by not carrying a phone.
Only if you're facelesss
Mask/hood
Brb making RF insulated glove boxes.
OK this is actually a good idea.
This AI bubble is gonna crash so hard, none of this processing is sustainable and profitable.
I hope for a horrible end for whatever piece of shit decided to track pets. A curb stomping would be too kind for that kind of trash.
Jokes on you. I leave all my electronics at home. Fuck having a digital leash, especially one that can be tracked.
Just add water.