| Its an old story, can also do it with bluetooth, there's also a Hak5 video episode from a couple years ago about sniffing the serial numbers of individual tire pressure monitoring transmitters in your car tires. Sooner or later someone will be selling the police a service of these MAC addrs or BT addresses or tire pressure sensors have been sighted near the XYZ protest and you just pulled one of those listed devices over so someone in that car is a protestor or was sniffed nearby a shooting crime scene or ... To avoid the law enforcement entanglements, look how expensive underaged alcohol serving tickets are, now here is a low sensitivity device that sniffs very nearby wireless traffic and a subscription list of serial numbers seen entering and leaving the mostly underage college dorms and/or high school, now if the LED over the door of the bar turns red it doesn't prove your ID is fake but maybe it has a nice bright yellow warning LED to indicate the bouncer or guard should triple check your ID because its on a suspicious list. Legally most anything is fair with house arrest and parole, register your smartphone and expect severe response if your MAC address shows up anywhere near a bar (assuming your parole forbids drinking establishments etc) Think of the profiling legacy retail stores will start doing. Hmm this MAC address is recorded to be mostly sniffed around jail, the homeless shelter, and the low income walmart, what is it doing in the electronics department ten miles away from home? Better have someone watch them on camera or in person. Imagine at a personal level subscribing to a service where you upload every tracking serial number you sniff continuously and in response get a threat indicator. Are there any threat smartphones in this dark alley? Is the clientele of this bar generally safe or dangerous? Based on the MAC addresses currently present, is this a safe neighborhood or should I drive on to the next gas station? |