Big Brother is Watching

This popped up in our news feed:

• Bluetooth-enabled tasers and body-worn cameras, used by thousands of Australian police officers, can inadvertently reveal their real-time location to any criminal with a phone or laptop.

  Police services around the country have been warned of the security flaw. But despite the safety risks, especially to officers who are undercover, in tactical units or who take their equipment home, none appear to have acted.

  Devices that use bluetooth have their own unique serial number called a MAC address. Most mobiles, like Apple iPhones, have built-in privacy features that randomise the code and make them harder to track.

  This hacker realised US tech giant Axon, which sells tasers and body-worn cameras to police around the world, had failed to do the same.

Which was an odd coincidence, because two people emailed up this Case Report (click and enlarge to read):

 

Real? No idea.

Possible? Certainly.

Likely? In this day and age with body cams, air tags, GPS/RFID chips, META glasses and everyone's cell phone doubling as a portable spy device, oh Hell yeah. You just need someone dedicated enough to pull all the metadata together to filter it into something usable.

Beware. There isn't much you can do about it, but be aware that it's happening. Constantly.