Detecting Bluetooth Surveillance Systems

Presented at THOTCON 0x6 (2015), May 14, 2015, 11:30 a.m. (25 minutes).

Departments of Transportation around the country have deployed "little white boxes" -- Bluetooth detectors used to monitor traffic speeds and activity. While they're supposedly anonymous, they detect a unique ID from every car and phone that passes by. In this presentation explore the documentation on these surveillance systems and their capabilities, then build a Bluetooth detector and recorder out of less than $200 of open-source hardware and software, as well as turn it on the surveillance system and try to detect and map the detectors as well.


Presenters:

  • Grant Bugher
    Grant Bugher has been hacking things since the early 90's and working in information security for the last 10 years. He is currently a security architect for a cloud computing company, and has previously been a program manager and software engineer on a variety of developer tools and platforms. He is a prior speaker at BlackHat and DefCon. Most of his work and research is on cloud computing and storage platforms, application security, and defending web-scale applications.

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