I went war-driving on a whim today. You wouldn’t believe how much personal information your car leaks out. I saw names like “Drew’s Chevy” and Oscar’s Audi S5".
I locked my car down as much as possible when I got it.
Silly question but what are you talking about?
Where did you see names?
There are a few pieces of war-driving software available on F-Droid. I just started one up to log my trip home for Flock cameras, and caught a ton of vehicle WiFi chatter.
Water diving?
Anyway I don’t really see Wifi as much of a privacy risk. There are way more concerning things than Wifi. For Wifi to be attacked you need very specific conditions one of those being close proximity.
In the past you could’ve used Wifi for physical tracking when people visited a place but now MAC address randomization is a thing and modern devices do not broadcast discover frames for Wifi.
Water diving?
That was an Auto-Incorrect.
I don’t really see Wifi as much of a privacy risk.
When you put your name on the WiFi, and combine that with your license plate being visible to everyone. That’s a lot of personal information that you’re leaking.
Where or how did you see that? As bluetooth clients?
Bluetooth radios have unique mac addresses, so adding a relatively common first name to it doesn’t mean much, if someone wants to track you via this, it doesnt really matter if it’s
04:ad:22...orGeodad's carI don’t know why the car has the persons name, but it’s the same thing with most peoples smartphones. People usually never turn off bluetooth when not in use and it’s always blasting their name. Though it is of course easier to see who Oscar is when there’s a whole car model to match it to.
For car’s, I wonder why they can’t only blast a device name while in pairing mode. Dunno of it’s just not a possibility, but that seems smort.
If you never connect these to wifi you never get collected
