- Being able to follow Bluetooth beacons is far from new.
- The listening in is done by the phone apps, which isn't a Bluetooth issue.
this post was submitted on 12 Apr 2024
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well I hope the NSA likes the same 10 songs on repeat and video essays about cults
actually nah fuck em
I hope they hate it
So people are starting to understand Bluetooth is a weapon? Cool beans.
The only thing in the article that has to do with wireless headphones is watching for devices in discoverable mode and using that to physically track movements.
Most (all that I know of, but I’m a be generous here!) Bluetooth headphones have to be made discoverable temporarily and turn it off after they’re paired, so this is more like you could be tracked locally by an array of bt receivers if you’re walking around with the button on your headphones held down.
The other thing in the article that applies to all people with phones or computers or whatever is the relatively old news that cops buy data from data brokers instead of doing investigations.
Seems the only way to prevent this is by running a firewall, but you can't run a firewall for Bluetooth connections… Yet.
Using wired headphones works great
That one trick the NSA does not want you to know
There's more than one ;)
Just a shame there's nothing to plug them into
? Headphone jacks
What headphone jacks?
I know adapters exist, but they were talking about how no mid-high end phone has a headphone jack anymore
Idk, buy better phones. There was a couple Pixels that didn't have headphone jacks before the manufacturer realized it was a horrible decision and now. Other than those shitty models, all Pixels have headphone jacks
The last Pixel to have a headphone jack was the 5A released in 2021. The 6, 6A, 7, 7A, and 8 do not have headphone jacks.
Wut. They got rid of them, people complained, they added them back, and then they got rid of them again??
Honestly, Bluetooth sucks. I'm incredibly sick and tired of everything trying to use ancient technology for far more than it was ever intended. Besides, it never works the way it should anyways.
Wait till y'all hear about cell towers.
I once lost a pair of expensive Bose wireless headphones. Somebody told me that I could use the app and track their location. I said, oh hell no, they can keep them! Nice as they were, I will not be purchasing again.
No worries, they can track you with every other tech you have instead
You and all your upvoters like to visit sites about privacy, and give people a hard time for taking measures to protect themselves. Lame
yea i dont usually post in any random websites, but that makes sense. I guess i mostly meant what i said thinking it's a waste to toss out something just because of tracking when there are so many other things they can track you with.
I went back to wired. I'm aware the government will get it elsewhere.
Not paying Bose to have access to it, and sell to whomever they want. Fuck that
Also, you don't know jack shit about my tech. I go out with nothing but a DAP very often.
But you can make it a lot harder and economically unattractive for them
Unless it's wired and very primitive
Even then, any mobile phone can be located with triangulation through cellular towers (afaik, are there carrier vpns?)
Anything that sends requests to any network can be tracked. You can't avoid it. That's why I think having an offline device makes a lot of sense especially for data storage