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On August 8th, Quartz published a report that recycling bins in the City of London were being used to collect the MAC addresses from phones passing-by. The scheme was halted by August 12th. On the 13th, I spoke with Danish reporter Jakob Møllerhøj about similar Bluetooth and Wi-Fi tracking that takes place in Denmark — to predict the flow of traffic on roads and human flows in airports.
And while traffic flow analysis is a very valuable thing for planners — in the light of a "prism" — this type of metadata collection is a very worrying trend.
Several years ago, we had our own Bluetooth honeypot project:
Had we moved forward with it, we would have needed to find a way to store MAC addresses anonymously. Because these days, it's entirely too easy for third-parties to seek or sell "business records" to be correlated. Can you just imagine if every CCTV in your city also logged your phone's Wi-Fi Mac?
For those of you interested in running an experiment, check out March's Linux Journal: Wi-Fi Mini Honeypot
But do be careful on what you collect, and how — it's a dangerously unregulated landscape.
Regards,
@Sean
On 26/08/13 At 12:45 PM
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And while traffic flow analysis is a very valuable thing for planners — in the light of a "prism" — this type of metadata collection is a very worrying trend.
Several years ago, we had our own Bluetooth honeypot project:
Had we moved forward with it, we would have needed to find a way to store MAC addresses anonymously. Because these days, it's entirely too easy for third-parties to seek or sell "business records" to be correlated. Can you just imagine if every CCTV in your city also logged your phone's Wi-Fi Mac?
For those of you interested in running an experiment, check out March's Linux Journal: Wi-Fi Mini Honeypot
But do be careful on what you collect, and how — it's a dangerously unregulated landscape.
Regards,
@Sean
On 26/08/13 At 12:45 PM
Weiterlesen...