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Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you (networks.imdea.org)
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Fuck Cars.

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[–] plateee@piefed.social 3 points 17 hours ago

They mention this in the article. The difference is that since the tire sensor sends out an RF signal, direct line of sight isn't necessary. You could throw a tracker up on a roof and grab signals from a block over.

The missing part may be tying that signal to a specific car, but say your car gets pulled over - they could read your tires' sensor ID and compare it to where they captured it and bam! Now you're fucked.