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uyzstvqs 5 hours ago

The site is definitely lacking. It's half in German, half in English.

The concept is that there is this protocol called ITS-G5, which is a European profile of 802.11p. Vehicles and traffic infrastructure can transmit telemetry on 5 GHz. Other vehicles and traffic infrastructure can use it for situational awareness.

This website collects that data using local receivers and aggregates it onto a map, similar to what website like ADSB-Exchange do with ADS-B.

What is concerning is that vehicles appear to broadcast a MAC address. Does this mean that ITS-G5, 802.11p, and C-ITS could be used for persistent tracking?

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softgrow 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Reading the translation of the talk, public transport vehicles have a persistent MAC but for private cars the MAC address changes every 15 minutes.

ufocia 4 hours ago | parent [-]

That still doesn't seem very private.

Barbing 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Particularly anywhere rural or off the beaten path

alexpotato 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This should be a top level comment as it has a ton of useful info and can be voted to the top.

firesteelrain 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Did they re invent APRS?