Cops have car mounted plate readers. If you see them, its already too late.

Unless your e-ink display has some pretty magical properties, it's going to be spotted by a cop at random sooner or later, whether that's at a traffic light, on the highway behind you, or even if they just roll by at a parking lot.

Plus, I can assure you that the technology to instantly alert if a car shows a registration for, let's say a blue honda, but looks like a red ford, has been around for longer than flock has been in the news. It's why that shit with texas temporary license plates was such a big deal (you'd see them everywhere throughout the continent). Unless you have a way to know what other cars similar to yours have for their license plates, you're going to get nabbed. And most places make your switching thing a pretty big deal as far as punishments go.

Allow me to introduce you to the magic world of pdlc, and especially pdlc in the same size as your license plates. Its not even that expensive and can be flipped from a switch as well.

https://a.aliexpress.com/_Ew79cNM

Couldn't you make it automatic and do it. Don't get have devices that detect all the wireless crap going on in a police car? For educational purposes only of course

https://youtu.be/HGzBL4k6qeY

This is my right. It'd be pretty simple to install a small ring of IR LED around your plate and wire them into the car lights and a back up battery in the trunk. Basically keep it glowing 24/7. Probably like, 30 bucks in hardware from Ali to start from scratch.

Kind of wonder what it'd be like to frame he whole car in it. Like a ghostly kia soul.

And the flocks are IR cameras, so better would be broadcasting a ton of IR light around your license plate. That being said, the camera also looks for type/size of rims and tires, window tint, visible damage, bumper stickers, dirt level, so while your license plate blocking may stop it from looking you up it won't stop it from tracking where you're going

I just cover my entire car with flexible screens and cameras. The image from one side of the car is displayed on the images of the other side of the car. Can't track a car if you can't even tell a car is there at all! I'm sure this will have absolutely no downsides whatsoever.

I recently watched a video about the quickest and quietest way to cut through thin wall tube, that had absolutely nothing to do with cameras what so ever. They determined portable band saws were the most practical method; balance being relatively quiet compared to other power tools while being the quickest. Manual tools were most quiet but the slowest which leaves you vulnerable.

1. Wrong!

2. This one can!

This is why populism works against us. We are always trying to high-road everything.

https://github.com/JiaoXianjun/BTLE
https://github.com/migraine-sudo/BTLE-R

Because I would love to see something like this exist, I went and found some prior art for doing arbitrary BTLE for you. Clankers seem to think SDR is necessary for the response-to-AWK bit because this is usually handled at the firmware/hardware level.

"it's that car that's 20 cars again"

https://f-droid.org/packages/de.simon.dankelmann.bluetoothlespam

I do not know if it works. I couldn't get any BT connection notifications to show up on any Android devices I have here.

Most likely you would stand out as "the person with all the Bluetooth stuff".

Like, what Russia is doing?

Some yes. Some no. Most of the the WiFi and BT can, but the car IMEI, usually no unless you yank the fuse/module.

Now even if you disable your car stuff. It can still track those same things for your personal phone. Have an Apple or Google Watch, Bluetooth is enabled. Little things like that, which make it worse because now instead of tracking a car, they’re tracking people/personal devices.

Sure. In the same way that you technically don't have to have a phone, tablet, or computer to participate in the modem world.

The PC term is demolished

Never said it was impossible, but more and more it requires you to further and further isolate yourself to have any meaningful privacy.

https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/accessories/ai-camera.html

At 12.3MP and 4056×3040 resolution it should do fine for under 100 dollars.

People are also making devices to fire a laser to shoot mosquitoes out of the air.

Lockheed Martin indeed. 🙄

It only has to hit it once, before your plate is captured, the sensors stay overloaded for a few seconds.

Probably, but it might be visible to other cameras.

I guess another option is to do an ir led strobe light and cause the exposure to fluctuate.