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License Plate Cameras Will Soon Track Phones, Wearables, Infotainment, and Even Your Pets
(www.thedrive.com)
Enshittification of society itself
this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2026
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Mass surveillance by corporation
Soon? Oh boy do I have some bad news for this reporter
This is how you make tech enthusiasts hate tech.
Or motivate them to tactically acquire new hardware.
The elites don't want you to know this but the cameras in the park are free, you can take them home.
Could one build a device that could overload these with fake data?
Or should we just use cordless angle grinders?
I don't know anything about jamming these but I do know that DeWalt makes a pretty good cordless angle grinder
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’m pretty sure if you follow a cop with a drone camera they are going to find a way to charge you with something.
A ~~large~~ many, distributed amount of objects isn't a drone camera.
We just need batman level funding to do that
Eh it's not that hard. The tech is just
- BLE radar.
- a webcam streaming to a cheap ALR program.
- Other antennas as needed.
Can't be that expensive. How they come together (power, software) is an amount to work, along with maintenance.
Edit: oh and the threat of the violence monopoly being angry at you.
looks like all those phones with physical shutoff switches are looking pretty fuckin good now.
Faraday bags for everything else
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'.
I'd be a shame if someone hid an ESP32 nearby randomly broadcasting previously detected MAC addresses.
Thinking in terms of database management systems I would think these systems collect enough unique info that they probably can use 'composite-keys' to sort through collected content. If thats the case then they can probably filter out all of those fake MAC addresses with relative ease, but I like where your head is at.
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.
License plate cameras will soon discover rapid unscheduled disassembly
Special resource acquisition operation
... 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
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).
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
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!
Since the US is currently under daylight saving time 11PM CST would be midnight. We are CDT now.
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.
They'll still see you on camera and you'll instantly be flagged as potential terrorist for not having a (tracking) device
Only if you're facelesss
Mask/hood
Brb making RF insulated glove boxes.
OK this is actually a good idea.
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.
This AI bubble is gonna crash so hard, none of this processing is sustainable and profitable.
All this data is for palantir, even if the Ai bubble bursts the surveillance apparatus will survive
Jokes on you. I leave all my electronics at home. Fuck having a digital leash, especially one that can be tracked.
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.
Just add water.