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Police Bluetooth advertising packets rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 6 months ago (12 children)

Wait could I theoretically go to a UK police station or somewhere with a lot of police and pick up their MAC addresses.

Then if I were to be involved in some direct action I could get alerts that the police are nearby?

If so what device do I need to do this mobile? Like a laptop? Or one of those little orange hacker tools which the name is escapes me right now.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Flipper

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

That’s it. Gone I’m getting old. Flipper Zero init.

Do you have one? I’ve been interested for a minute but not sure if I can loads of fun with it.

I’d be interested in using it to affect digital billboards or taking direct action against companies I don’t think have a moral backbone.

[–] perviouslyiner 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

While flipper is very versatile, it's pretty weak compared to dedicated devices with proper antennas for the signal type you're looking at.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Thanks that helps me make the choice.

I do already have some decent antennas from the last time I was playing around with Kali and Airpdump ng so I’ll get into some studying.

Thanks.

[–] Glitterbomb 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I looked into maybe getting a flipper a while back and decided the hackRF would be the way to go. I never got either, but from what I was reading, hackRF let's you do all the things people who own flippers wish the flipper did.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Yeah I think GhostStrats on YouTube did an episode on his toolkit and the HackRF was recommended.

What I really want to do is fuck with digital billboards. I have a hatred for adverts and more so in the real world lol.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Nah, it'd mostly just end up being another useless gadget to me. It's cool, but I don't have room for gadgets rn.

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