This is very interesting and it works the same way to enable spying and location identification:
Full story here:
You Are a Rogue Device
A New Apparatus Capable of Spying on You Has Been Installed Throughout Downtown Seattle. Very Few Citizens Know What It Is, and Officials Don’t Want to Talk About It.
"The user's guide for one of Aruba's recent software products states: "The wireless network has a wealth of information about unassociated and associated devices." That software includes "a location engine that calculates associated and unassociated device location every 30 seconds by default... The last 1,000 historical locations are stored for each MAC address."
A MAC address on a wifi enabled device (cell Phone) in your pocket is like a license plate on your car. Probably associated closely with you and readable. Enough to send you a photo proof speeding ticket as the owner of the vehicle.
What if it was mandatory that a MAC address wifi broadcast capability always be turned on?
MAC address capable of being turned on for the duration of an emergency in a specific area by a cell phone alert as is possible in the current alerting system used for missing children, weather alerts or other dire emergencies.
Wifi turned on and broadcasting MAC address as a condition of entry to some business or controlled area?
Only criminals will not then have cell phones?
More information about the Seattle network was found here. It references a company called Intellistreets that provide multiple spying capabilities in street lights. There is a very interesting link here that examines the Seattle story and goes on to examine Intellistreets a product of Illuminating Concepts. These lights are being installed in Las Vegas. Interesting story here about that.
A MAC address on a wifi enabled device (cell Phone) in your pocket is like a license plate on your car. Probably associated closely with you and readable. Enough to send you a photo proof speeding ticket as the owner of the vehicle.
What if it was mandatory that a MAC address wifi broadcast capability always be turned on?
MAC address capable of being turned on for the duration of an emergency in a specific area by a cell phone alert as is possible in the current alerting system used for missing children, weather alerts or other dire emergencies.
Wifi turned on and broadcasting MAC address as a condition of entry to some business or controlled area?
Only criminals will not then have cell phones?
More information about the Seattle network was found here. It references a company called Intellistreets that provide multiple spying capabilities in street lights. There is a very interesting link here that examines the Seattle story and goes on to examine Intellistreets a product of Illuminating Concepts. These lights are being installed in Las Vegas. Interesting story here about that.
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