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[–] 22 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I'd be a shame if someone hid an ESP32 nearby randomly broadcasting previously detected MAC addresses.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago

    Despite doing an awful lot with ESP32s, Home assistant, and a bunch of LoRa stuff, I know very little about BLE. Would it be possible for folks to voluntarily add their MAC to a data base on gitlab, and have a ESP32 program that:

    1. Spammed out whatever the max reasonable number of random entries from that database is
    2. Updated it every-time it was on a specified WiFi So that every time I drove by one of these, not only do I look like a spacehulk of TPS, headphones, cars and cellphones, but I'm specifically helping someone appear somewhere not their location as well?
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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Thinking in terms of database management systems I would think these systems collect enough unique info that they probably can use 'composite-keys' to sort through collected content. If thats the case then they can probably filter out all of those fake MAC addresses with relative ease, but I like where your head is at.

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