Identifying Cell Phones Through Sensor Imperfections
There seems to be a bunch of research into uniquely identifying cell phones through unique analog characteristics of the various embedded sensors. These sorts of things could replace cookies as surveillance tools.
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Police State • October 18, 2013 8:17 AM
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Intent MAC access control (SEAndroid) will prevent any app trying to get at the accelerometer and mic, and be careful what apps you download, look at permissions though I suspect all apps will have this spyware soon. Radio noise fingerprint sounds impossible to defend against though my phone is being tower and wifi AP tracked anyways right now. Maybe an app that generates random small transmissions to throw it off, or airplane mode when not in use