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cAUzapNEAGLb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

What a read

This paragraph stood out to me, but the whole article is pretty distopian. It’s good to be aware of what intelligence is being gathered, and when wanted, used against us.

In one instance that Schwindt and Bromberger shared with WIRED, local police used software from Latent Wireless to locate a suspect in an office building knowing only the MAC address of the employee’s device. In another case, a robber connected to a Wi-Fi network at a local coffee shop before committing a crime. Police identified the MAC address of his device through the coffee shop’s router logs and eventually tracked him down by detecting the signal from that device as they drove around.

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