Police advised to disable Bluetooth on Axon body-worn cameras to avoid detection

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11 pointsstubish3 comments

Bluetooth has, especially with the adoption of the BLE standard, wholly transformed from this PAN link you only turned on to take fone calls, transfer a file or attach a modem to your computer into an always-on nightmare that incessantly beacons even when there is no need to do so at any time.

The whole pivot around covert work is strange, though. What kind of "covert work" involves a taser and/or a bodycam on the person anyway? Wouldn't the mere physical presence of a bodycam (an Axon bodycam no less) signal something's off?

> What kind of "covert work" involves a taser and/or a bodycam on the person anyway?

SWAT teams serving a no-knock warrant. The US is a weird place.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-knock_warrant

Correlation of even anonymized hardware emissions and location history for commercial use such as advertising would eventually identify police or company specific hardware. A product for this purpose already exists in Signaltrace, and probably exists as an in house solution for large campus operators like Walmart, universities, or a place like HP.

Signaltrace: https://www.leonardocompany-us.com/lpr/elsag-signaltrace

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