SN 923: Location Tracker Behavior - Diving deep into Google and Apple's tracker spec, SpinRite update

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Leo Laporte

Cyber Crime, Malware, Technology, Encryption, Steve Gibson, Security, Hacking, Twit, Spyware, Leo Laporte

4.6 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2023

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

Picture of the Week.
SpinRite.
Location Tracker Behavior.
Formal definitions from the specification.
Bluetooth LE devices have MAC addresses and therein lies a problem.
All devices are serialized.
And now, that "pairing registry".
Privacy considerations.

Show Notes: https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-923-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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0:00.0	It's time for security now. Steve Gibson is here.
0:03.3	We've got of course the picture of the week. Nice little cartoon about AI.
0:07.6	We've got an update on his software project Spinrite.
0:11.5	We'll talk a little bit about a software coding philosophy,
0:15.2	even as it applies to his favorite language, assembly language.
0:18.8	And then we're going to dive deep as we did last week
0:21.2	into location tracker behavior in particular.
0:24.1	The future spec that both Google and Apple
0:27.3	want to adopt for these little Bluetooth location trackers.
0:30.8	So I'll come up next on Security Now.
0:35.9	Podcasts you love from people you trust.
0:40.2	This is Twit.
0:46.0	This is Security Now with Steve Gibson,
0:48.9	episode 923 recorded Tuesday, May 16th, 2023.
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