I don't suppose there is an easy to create device that creates tens or hundreds of random virtual bluetooth and wifi devices that we can leave in our vehicles to poison the data it is collecting?
this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2026
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I wouldn't think so because you would need tens or hundreds of Bluetooth/WiFi radios. Even then they could still know that "here comes that guy with hundreds of Bluetooth/WiFi radios."
A simpler solution might be to use randomized and regularly rotated mac addresses for your WiFi chips, which is easy enough on any android/Linux device. However, I'm not sure what other unique identifiers they could use for fingerprinting.
Looks like it uses wifi and bluetooth. So anything just "ON".
You know its not all that hard to reproduce if someone wants to. Except when we do it, its against the law.
Most modern phones. Samsung and Apple use address randomization for WiFi. There are tricks through like announcing common WiFi router names. Starbucks. Netgear etc then looking at traffic.
Also your car has wifi and bt. Which prolly doesn’t do that.
If you wanted to position it you shouldn’t get an adr and park nearby. Also I wouldn’t recommend a jammer like any radio you have broadcasting on Channel 5 endlessless.