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Yay, even better opportunities for government and corporations to track my whereabouts through my Bluetooth signature. ;)

Tongue-in-cheek, well mostly but not entirely .. I do appreciate e.g. accurate travel times, yet refuse to believe they won't take it to the next step. http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/how-vicroads-tracks-your-e...

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Modern Bluetooth devices, including all smart phones running Windows, iOS or Android, does not use static addresses that can be used as a signature to track you.

Instead, they use private resolvable keys for all handshakes with devices around them. A new key is generated every few minutes, and only a device which you have previously bonded with is able to resolve your key through data exchanged in the bonding process.

Many BLE devices do not advertise with random addresses. iOS and Android do, but last I checked Fitbit and Tile do not.

Yet nothing new on the security side. Figures. How many cars can be hacked now thanks to Bluetooth-based locks? Millions?

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