From July 2019 London's subway wants to track smartphones
For better statistics, Transport for London takes a bold step. The authority will track all registered devices by MAC address to better understand passenger flows and warn of overcrowding situations.
London's Transport for London (TfL) plans to track all smartphones via the WLAN interface from 8 July 2019. The authority, which reports directly to the mayor, will take advantage of the technical feature that all WLAN interfaces have a MAC address with which they can be identified within the WLAN. In the network, the data packets are sent to the appropriate addressees.
The TfL plan alienates this technical network feature for other purposes. Since the MAC address is unique, it can easily be used to track passengers. Although a MAC address is not carved in stone, relatively few passengers should be so familiar with it that they can correctly assess the potential difficulties. Technically speaking, TfL should be able to pick up the MAC address at every WLAN access point and use it to generate motion profiles, for example within the subway. Only devices that have connected to the WLAN once are affected.
TfL assures that it will not be possible to later combine the motion profiles with other data and then identify people. In principle, this would be possible if an attacker had additional data, such as video recordings. If, for example, a MAC address on the Jubilee Line enters a station that is used little, this would be easy even in the long run. You only need the time code to find the right place in the video material and then assign a face to the MAC address.
https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/media/press-releases/2019/may/tfl-to-give-customers-better-information-about-their-tube-journeys
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For better statistics, Transport for London takes a bold step. The authority will track all registered devices by MAC address to better understand passenger flows and warn of overcrowding situations.
London's Transport for London (TfL) plans to track all smartphones via the WLAN interface from 8 July 2019. The authority, which reports directly to the mayor, will take advantage of the technical feature that all WLAN interfaces have a MAC address with which they can be identified within the WLAN. In the network, the data packets are sent to the appropriate addressees.
The TfL plan alienates this technical network feature for other purposes. Since the MAC address is unique, it can easily be used to track passengers. Although a MAC address is not carved in stone, relatively few passengers should be so familiar with it that they can correctly assess the potential difficulties. Technically speaking, TfL should be able to pick up the MAC address at every WLAN access point and use it to generate motion profiles, for example within the subway. Only devices that have connected to the WLAN once are affected.
TfL assures that it will not be possible to later combine the motion profiles with other data and then identify people. In principle, this would be possible if an attacker had additional data, such as video recordings. If, for example, a MAC address on the Jubilee Line enters a station that is used little, this would be easy even in the long run. You only need the time code to find the right place in the video material and then assign a face to the MAC address.
https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/media/press-releases/2019/may/tfl-to-give-customers-better-information-about-their-tube-journeys
#tracking #uk #london #subway #wlan
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📷Aftermath of a #Saudi-led air strike on Yemen’s capital Sanaa, 18 January 2022.
Gross violations of international law. Missiles raining down on houses. Kleptocrats laundering their ill-gotten gains through #London and buying political influence. Aggressive, powerful states attacking a poorer neighbour; backing separatist rebels; illegally occupying its land; dropping cluster bombs and conducting crippling cyber-attacks. Sound familiar?
This is what Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have been doing to Yemen since 2015. It’s a conflict that has continued during Putin’s offensive in Ukraine, but with a fraction of the media scrutiny.
Unlike with #Russia, there have been no recent calls for financial or even sporting sanctions on Gulf regimes from prominent British commentators or politicians. With the war in #Yemen worsening once again – as Declassified’s new film shows below – the silence of Britain’s political class becomes ever louder.Yemen: the war the world forgot https://declassifieduk.org/yemen-the-war-the-world-forgot/
#WarCrimes #UAE #UK
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Yemen: the war the world forgot
While the world watches Vladimir Putin’s harrowing invasion of Ukraine, our new film shows how other despots are also getting away with wanton aggression – with British support.
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BRITISH GOVERNMENT INVENTS PHANTOM SKRIPALS TO REFUSE TO TESTIFY IN THE NOVICHOK INQUIRY – John Helmer
A new lawyer appeared in a #London court on Friday claiming to represent Sergei (lead image, left) and Yulia Skripal. Jack Holborn, a barrister specializing in what he calls human rights, told Lord Anthony Hughes, who is conducting a public inquiry into the alleged Novichok death of Dawn Sturgess in 2018, that the Skripals should not be called to give evidence or testify in the case.
Holborn claimed the Skripals are fearful for their security. “No security measures are perfect”, he said.
Holborn has not been in contact with the Skripals, however. He refuses to answer questions put to him on what visual contact or other communications he has had with either Sergei or Yulia #Skripal.
Instead, he was told what to say at the hearing by the law firm of Kingsley Napley which the British government is paying to show that the Skripals are participating in the #Novichok case.
#Russia #UK
A new lawyer appeared in a #London court on Friday claiming to represent Sergei (lead image, left) and Yulia Skripal. Jack Holborn, a barrister specializing in what he calls human rights, told Lord Anthony Hughes, who is conducting a public inquiry into the alleged Novichok death of Dawn Sturgess in 2018, that the Skripals should not be called to give evidence or testify in the case.
Holborn claimed the Skripals are fearful for their security. “No security measures are perfect”, he said.
Holborn has not been in contact with the Skripals, however. He refuses to answer questions put to him on what visual contact or other communications he has had with either Sergei or Yulia #Skripal.
Instead, he was told what to say at the hearing by the law firm of Kingsley Napley which the British government is paying to show that the Skripals are participating in the #Novichok case.
#Russia #UK